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Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music | Open Culture
mercredi 3 août 2016, par
Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music | Open Culture
▻http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/brian-eno-explains-the-loss-of-humanity-in-modern-music.html
In music, as in film, we have reached a point where every element of every composition can be fully produced and automated by computers. This is a breakthrough that allows producers with little or no musical training the ability to rapidly turn out hits. It also allows talented musicians without access to expensive equipment to record their music with little more than their laptops. But the ease of digital recording technology has encouraged producers, musicians, and engineers at all levels to smooth out every rough edge and correct every mistake, even in recordings of real humans playing old-fashioned analogue instruments. After all, if you could make the drummer play in perfect time every measure, the singer hit every note on key, or the guitarist play every note perfectly, why wouldn’t you ?
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