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...and now a word from your anti-sponsor...

"...the whole artifice of recording. I see it like this: a voice into a microphone onto a tape, onto your CD, through your speakers is all as illusory and fake as any synthesizer—it doesn't put Thom in your front room—but one is perceived as 'real' the other, somehow 'unreal'... It was just freeing to discard the notion of acoustic sounds being truer." - Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead.

Personally, I couldn't agree more.
ghosthouse
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chadnliz
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My paretns used to live 20 miles from NYC, I sorta wish thry did simply to see and hear that organ. My father studied and played pipe organs for years and we both would get a huge kick out of atleast experiencing that setup.
blkadr
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I like to listen to recordings of Stephen Hawkin.
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chadnliz
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Kinda blan if you ask me lol
spiritualized
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Ironically, it is reported that Jonny owns a very high-end turntable, and has a taste for expensive electronics.
bryoncunningham
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I think Johnny was saying...

1. An acoustical sound is generally regarded as real.
2. An electronic sound is generally regarded as unreal.

However…

3. A reproduced acoustical sound is no more real than a reproduced electronic sound.

Therefore...

4. A reproduced acoustical sound is no more truthful than a reproduced electronic sound.

And…

5. The use of electronic sounds doesn't make music less truthful.

Personally, I disagree with both (4) and (5).

I do, however, like some of Radiohead's music.

Bryon
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