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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Volume
Message-ID: <1226@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 11:50:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 19 11:50:59 1985
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Reply-To: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <356@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) writes:
>> > > Doug Alan 
>> > > I despise acoustic instruments.
>> > Marcel Simon
>> > I agree with you 100%. Keep up the good work!
>Now, on Alan's axiom on volume:
>When Alan speaks of "the louder the better," I assume he means the greater
>the dynamic range between loud and soft notes. Since great dynamic
>range implies great rhythmic diversity, Alan's axiom thus rejoins mine.
>No wonder I agree with him!

   Wrongo, Marcel!  I once sent mail to Alan, so I feel I know him better than
a brother, and I'm *sure* that he actually means "the louder the better."
None of this "greater dynamic range" and "great rhythmic diversity" nonsense.
The best music is that which is so loud that every song merges into one
immensely body-shattering wall of sound, each deafening moment joyously
indistinguishable from the other.  And since all pieces of music end up 
being as one by sheer force of volume, it makes it easy to break down the
pop-jazz-classical-punk-experimental-etc classifications (and makes buying
albums easy, since they all sound the same going through a 100,000 watt
amplifier at 3000 (or whatever) decibels).   Also, all such trivial notions
as rhythm and harmony become meaningless.  And you can't argue with that, so
don't bother trying.  Now that we've got that straightened out, I'm going
home to listen to "The Dreaming."

-- 
 - joel "vo" plutchak
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"Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is
all confusion."