http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122114058
I found this article very interesting because it relates to the arguments from class. Essentially, the quality of music. The article talks about compression and how it is affecting the quality of music. The idea of compressing music is to make it louder, so that it is more recognizable. The producers want the song to jump out at you from your MP3, that is one of the main reasons for compression. Also, in order to fit all the songs we want as a consumer, they have to compress the song down so that it is a small file, but in return it decreases the quality, increases the volume, and I think, will lead to a lot of hearing problems in our generation. I understand the need to make the file small so that the consumer can have more music, but by doing so we are losing the quality of music and increasing health problems. Therefore, I think it comes down to a question, do we want quantity or quality? Personally, I would prefer better quality out of songs, and only have say a hundred or so, rather than have seven thousand and poor quality that hurts my ears. And in keeping with the discussion with Auto-tune, is compression just as bad because it distorts the truth, or does it all make sense for the consumption of music?
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I think it's definitely sad that our culture values quantity so much more than quality. Like you said, I think I would rather have less, but higher quality music that hasn't been compressed.
ReplyDeleteWell luckily we have control over the volume knob so I'm ok with compression. It reduces clarity but I feel like it enhances overall quality because it brings the instruments more body and strength. Then again, I like loud music anyway. I can tell you a compression guitar pedal does wonders for how well you sound live.
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