Just wonder, do you think a production can be to good ?
I mean, vinyls Vs CD, theatre Vs DVD, argentic photo Vs numeric and so on...
The point is to get everything as clean, perfect, as possible, but this could also lead to a lack of personnallity, or "authenticity" (same works for CG art, the best are often those who reproduce, or emulate, traditionnal technic (rough brush strokes, etc etc) and add to this the advantages of computer).
When I look at a movie on DVD, I sometimes find the picture to good, lacking a little something, I'm not sure what exactly.
So this may only be nostalgie acting here (not that I've listen to a lot of vinyls, or was a pro in argentic photography...), but it's just something I wonder about music production.
Well I guess that in most artistic domains, more than anywhere else, progress and technology may bring some changes and attenuate this "hand made" impression, let's just hope we can create it with other tricks.
(I could also talk about the speed loader for guitars, I don't know if it's great or not, but though it looks great, it doesn't look to be that much used...)
I'm thinking about that cuz' actually my favourite of Devin's album is Ocean Machine, I'm not sure why, maybe the atmosphere that fit my state of mind more, or the non-standard compositions (voices in the fan, greetings, funeral, bastard, DOM), or the flow during the whole album, but as it's the oldest one, I sometimes wonder if the -maybe unperfect at that time- production may not also be a reason why I prefere this one (with all my respect to Devin's work^^ I surely don't know enough in music production to have an objective critic).
Which gives me great hopes in Synchestra, as it's announced as a big song cut into several smaller. I hope there'll be this kind of flow throughout the album, like on Biomech.
I mean, vinyls Vs CD, theatre Vs DVD, argentic photo Vs numeric and so on...
The point is to get everything as clean, perfect, as possible, but this could also lead to a lack of personnallity, or "authenticity" (same works for CG art, the best are often those who reproduce, or emulate, traditionnal technic (rough brush strokes, etc etc) and add to this the advantages of computer).
When I look at a movie on DVD, I sometimes find the picture to good, lacking a little something, I'm not sure what exactly.
So this may only be nostalgie acting here (not that I've listen to a lot of vinyls, or was a pro in argentic photography...), but it's just something I wonder about music production.
Well I guess that in most artistic domains, more than anywhere else, progress and technology may bring some changes and attenuate this "hand made" impression, let's just hope we can create it with other tricks.
(I could also talk about the speed loader for guitars, I don't know if it's great or not, but though it looks great, it doesn't look to be that much used...)
I'm thinking about that cuz' actually my favourite of Devin's album is Ocean Machine, I'm not sure why, maybe the atmosphere that fit my state of mind more, or the non-standard compositions (voices in the fan, greetings, funeral, bastard, DOM), or the flow during the whole album, but as it's the oldest one, I sometimes wonder if the -maybe unperfect at that time- production may not also be a reason why I prefere this one (with all my respect to Devin's work^^ I surely don't know enough in music production to have an objective critic).
Which gives me great hopes in Synchestra, as it's announced as a big song cut into several smaller. I hope there'll be this kind of flow throughout the album, like on Biomech.
Last edited by Falk on Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:06 am, edited 2 times in total.