“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new
medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness
of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be
cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of
failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of
control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The
distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium
supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the
sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it.
The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the
excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to
record them.” — Brian Eno on music production and it’s nostalgia. (Source:
Imathers via
hitrecordjoe)
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