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Passion of Music

27 Wednesday Dec 2017

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collection, diggers, grooves, Music, TEDx, vinyl

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We dream of a collection like this

With Christmas we get some time off with the family and slowdown abit. Even indulge in things less technical. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on the subject of music. I’ve been meaning to share the following TEDx presentation. I wish I could say that it reflects my personal manifesto…

Sadly very few people manage to devote the time and make and adequate living to keep a family to pursue this level of commitment. But we can wish, and take the suggestion to exploiting the ‘diggers’ recommendations. Want to know more, checkout ….

  • http://www.musicismysanctuary.com
  • http://dustandgrooves.com/
  • http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/toomany.aspx

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Value of things in a Digital World

10 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Aleks Kotoski, Aleksk, BBC, BBC Radio 4, cd, digital human, MP3, Music, podcast, Radio, vinyl

So I’ve been catching up with a pile of podcasts that I have been accumulating, including the BBC Radio 4 documentary series the Digital Human presented by Aleks Kotoski (twitter:@aleksk).  In series 4 (Autumn 2013 – yes I’m ashamed to say I’ve got that far behind) Alex presented an episode called Value, which was rather special, in a series that is already fascinating.

Why special, well in under 30 minutes the programme explained brilliantly a couple of ideas that I have periodically tried to answer.  As a music fan, I’ve often gotten involved with the arguments about which format is better, MP3s, CDs and vinyl. This argument has raged for a longtime and will continue for a long time (long passed when the music industry has collapsed through its inability to understand the end user). But, through trying to describe how our perception of value and its manifestation is affected (and perhaps changed) as result of the ease of access and gratification the internet offers us (no more finding specialist record stores, routing through piles of vinyl or CDs to find that 1 jem – see Vinyl Junkies).  At the essence of the idea idea is that the investment of physical effort or emotion results in us imbuing the item with value.  In the programme the idea of the effort to find something (hunting through stores etc) or the importance of a piece of music as it says something to us or about us.

But rather than me trying to repeat what the programme brilliantly explained – go invest 30 minutes of listening time.

 

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Vinyl Junkies – Adventures In Record Collecting A Review

09 Thursday Jan 2014

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book, collecting, Music, record collecting, record collector, record collectors, records, Robert Crumb, Thurston Moore, vinyl

So I’ve been luxuriating in reading some books more for the pleasure of it (rather than technical stuff to help authors or the day job).  This book is about, record collectors, the act of record collecting and the general love for music both mainstream, obscure and just down right freaky. For the music fan this is Mills & Boon reading.  For those related or taken on the challenge of a partner who is a record collector an insight into the mind of your loved one.

The books tries to explain the passion of collecting from many different perspectives, through the eyes of collectors (some famous – like Peter Buck (of REM fame), Robert Crumb (cartoonist) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), others not so famous but equally obsessed. From a psychologist point of view – clinical (relationship to low sertraline) to psychotherapy.  As a result we get discussions about the sensuality of vinyl and wonderful quotes like “CDs are like sex with a condom”.

We explore the kinds of collecting that go on – from types of records – old pre-war 78s, 1st issues of records, special prints like shaped coloured vinyl, those quickly taken out of circulation through to records that just seem to be rare and then the plain odd like albums commissioned by Listerine (the mouthwash) advocating the product’s wonders to people thinking they’re going to make it big putting out just tuneless oddities, to the child like contributions like Sammy Squirrel Teaches the Multiplication Tables (Which apparently has a publisher’s address on the cover of The Metaphysical Motivational institute, Drawer 400, Ruidoso, NM) and psychotic wonders such  as “Sit on My Face, Stevie Nicks” by the Rotters and Naughty Rock ‘n’ Roll by the P-Verts or maybe various artists on the Sugar Tits Label.

As the book progresses we get a chance to be taken on an exploration of the validity of the portrayal of collector/obsessive music fan portrayed in Nick Hornby’s book High Fidelity by the character Rob Gordon (portrayed by John Cusack in Stephen Frears‘ cinematic adaptation);  music collectors are geeky single men that can’t sustain a relationship etc.

The book is however 10 years old – and sadly doesn’t reflect how the rise in Mp3s has impacted.  As everything get ripped and becomes for ever available (legally or illegally) on the web, what is happening to the passion of the hunt for the mysterious, weird and rare?  Who knows, but its fun hearing the stories.

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