You don't understand how POWERFUL that level of control *is*
though.
To be able to engineer and tap directly into "that which can
move" MILLIONS - and I mean -MILLIONS of people - a certain way,
is absolutely an _intoxicating_ concept.
I'm entirely biased. In 1984, when I was 12 years old, I got a
cartridge for my Tandy Color Computer 2. (I'm in love with my
Coco - yeah - it was called the Coco 30 yrs before the song).
Anyway - this cartridge, the Orchestra 90CC, had 5 voices, and
_complete control of the sound waves_ through a special
programming language.
Every nuance of it, you could control. EVERYTHING. You had to;
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https://soundcloud.com/kenneth-udut/awesome-1-8-bit-by-kenneth-udut-age-11
[apologies for it not being in stereo; the ORIGINAL was in
stereo, but I only recorded the RIGHT channel. I had separately
programmed the LEFT channel, but that's trapped on a digital
audio tape that can't be played or decoded by any current
technology that I have available right now; so you're just
hearing the 'right' side. But basically, it bounced
side-to-side, creating a binaural effect)
Anyway, 12 yr old me? If I had the ability to digitally record
sounds without having to create them, yet I had the same level
of control, I wouldn't have complained about "oh things used to
better".
I'd be using the state of the art to create the music with, just
as I did then.
You may complain about the thinness of pop culture - and of
course, that's true. When hasn't it been?
But there _are_ sound engineers and musicians, there is
_somebody_ who says, "THAT is music!"
Even if it's a sleezy guy in a tweed jacket, that looks like a
frog, with a big fat cigar in his mouth, gold chains around his
neck, 4'7" tall walking with elevator shoes and with 4 beautiful
women around him at all times.
He's still a composer. A musician. So are the engineers who
create it, the singers who sing it, the mixers who mix it.
They're all musicians who control sound waves as best they can
to achieve whatever result they like.
References
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