Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jean-Michel, You are quite right. Beethoven had in mind the musicians taking the discreet notes and making them anything but. Having played the violin for 19 years, I think I can answer that one pretty accurately. The notes on paper are not digital any more than cursive writing is. My violin teacher used to criticize Jascha Heifitz, the famous violinist, because his technique was so perfect, so accurate a representation of the musical notes on the paper, that he felt he wasn't much of a real musician because he never put into the music who he was. Whether that was in fact the case or not, the point is well taken for me. Music is more than discreet notes at a mathematically perfect pace. It's taking that as the starting point, and then the musician making the piece theirs. Photography is the same. We take an "accurate" two-dimensional description of the world that the lens projects onto the light-sensitive surface and we "make it our own." Even journalists. Because we pick the angle, the crop and the timing (not to mention exposure) and create a "slide of life" that we perceive to be significant. On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Jean-Michel Tomaschett wrote: > "analog recorded audio" has nothing to do with what Beethoven had in > mind > Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. - Will Rogers. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html