http://www.stevelawson.net/2007/10/more_on_filteri/ the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:39:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.stevelawson.net/2007/10/more_on_filteri/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Mike Burgess Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:31:50 +0000 http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/2007/10/more-on-filtering-out-junk-music-in-a-digital-age/#comment-336 So actually these filters can also work in a positive way, as you have proved, and throw up stuff that maybe we wouldnt choose to buy, for whatever reason, (didnt like the cover art/songtitles/not too sure about the artist to spend 12 quid on in one go/etc). It seems to me that a balance is needed between the old way and the new way. I wonder if this will happen naturally, as people get overloaded to the point of insensitivity to too much music and begin to become more selective again, rather than just completely and wantonly becomeimmersed in this vast cornucopia of music availabilty, which initially sounds wonderful, but rapidly makes the musical palette jaded and unresponsive. After all, I still want the artists whose music i like to be able to still make that music, both in recorded form, and also in the live setting, and to be the best they possibly can in those aspects! So actually these filters can also work in a positive way, as you have proved, and throw up stuff that maybe we wouldnt choose to buy, for whatever reason, (didnt like the cover art/songtitles/not too sure about the artist to spend 12 quid on in one go/etc). It seems to me that a balance is needed between the old way and the new way. I wonder if this will happen naturally, as people get overloaded to the point of insensitivity to too much music and begin to become more selective again, rather than just completely and wantonly becomeimmersed in this vast cornucopia of music availabilty, which initially sounds wonderful, but rapidly makes the musical palette jaded and unresponsive.
After all, I still want the artists whose music i like to be able to still make that music, both in recorded form, and also in the live setting, and to be the best they possibly can in those aspects!

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