Re: Velvet Noise
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:52 am
Not to derail the topic too far (hopefully), but I appreciated the verification of something my then-young ears had suspected- namely, the fact that there is nothing about Western music that, say, requires the whole heavy-vibrato thing found so, so much in string and vocal parts... lushness, volume tricks, it's no more "necessary" from a information standpoint than a solo acoustic guitarist using "corner-loading" before the days of amplification. It's so de rigeur stylistically and culturally that's for it to be absent sounds unnatural. Of course, folk traditions in many cultures will use an instrument to mimic a voice, or convey certain context through modulation, and there's vocalists like Sarah Vaughn who really stretched what could be expressed, not to devalue or diminish anything- only to point out even something like vibrato can be psychologically invisible and not immutable, like the "reason why major is happy and minor is sad".
What? Oh, dear. That was too far, wasn't it?
cough cough ...And now, back to your regularly scheduled "even noise turns out to be nuanced and complex subject" thread.
What? Oh, dear. That was too far, wasn't it?
cough cough ...And now, back to your regularly scheduled "even noise turns out to be nuanced and complex subject" thread.