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In Reply to: Re: Gould or not? posted by Christine Tham on April 10, 2007 at 14:47:35:
Notwithstanding John Cage's 4'33", Gould's original intention, Heisenberg, and the whole history of modern music-- which trends toward a definition of "performance" to be pretty much whatever we subjectively observe-- I would narrow the discussion.The Diskclavier is qualitatively different from an audio system. It is a robotic device designed to recreate the action of a human performer on a real musical instrument. In this sense it is recreation, not reproduction.
Recording a Diskclavier to SACD is reproducing a recreation--a nested Chinese box-- and one step further into a synthetic environment. It is your business whether you accept this kind of regression into your listening experience. But I think you are pushing the point by suggesting that many who post to the Hi-Rez forum are subjectivists uninterested in the faithfulness of their audio systems to the original performance.
The experience of hearing a Disklavier on SACD is different from listening to one in the home, a piano bar, or an e-piano competition. I have seen these things unemploy actual pianists in the lobbies of exclusive metro bank branches. One less pianist = one less Gould. To my taste these Disklaviers in public places are part of the seductive tapestry that marches modern experience toward simulacra in the Baudrillardian sense. It's probably a losing battle to resist, but lost causes are usually worthwhile.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Gould or not? - Dave Garretson 06:34:31 04/11/07 (2)
- Re: Gould or not? - Christine Tham 15:01:37 04/11/07 (1)
- Gouldbye Christine N/T - Dave Garretson 15:57:31 04/11/07 (0)
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