Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)

@mahgister 

I disagree with your reply, and offer you... The real push behind it was nefarious, though that is denied by those who had the power to make it so.

But it is musician that must decide to use this frequency  or not.... Engineer can do nothing save "reproduce" what musician decide they will play...

And this is another question only musicians can decide anyway...

I find most modern music to be degenerate and ugly. There are of course exceptions, but the to my ears with pitch correction being used as a production feature rather than a fix for poor vocals means that a lot of music now sounds like a robot singing over a simple beat. Much new music seems to be made to be played over phone speakers, probably the very worst sound reproduction equipment after the AM radio in your granddaddy’s Corvair. Music production and engineering has suffered terribly with the advent of DAWs and the loudness wars. Not to mention the "musician" has been replaced by the "artist" as in no way could you call these "artists" "musicians". They can’t sing, don’t play an instrument, don’t write songs, just shake their asses on stage while fireworks go off. For me music production peaked in the 1970s, when producers poured almost unlimited funds into an album, and featured actual song writers and musicians. Deutsche Grammophon in the 1970s somehow managed to capture every element of an orchestra through multiple microphone placements and mixing to draw out individual sections of the orchestra, especially the woodwinds which tend to be drowned out by modern massive string sections. Their use of giant resonators in the basement of their concert hall gave the Berlin Philharmonic’s brass section a wonderful power and edge to the sound. Modern classical recording tend to suffer from what I call "the blob" where a single microphone reduces the textures and separation of the orchestra to a single blob in the middle of the stereo image. Computer production now means that there is really no need for audio engineers to get creative in the studio like The Beatles, Brian Eno and Bowie used to do, and it shows. Again there are of course exceptions. Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories for example, they spent a million dollars of their own money to produce it on analog tape and digital and spent months mixing and mastering it, it is a triumph of music production. And the songs are wonderful, they tell stories. Tame Impala and War on Drugs are some other bands that sound great on record.

One thing the author didn’t mention was the advertising, the hype that made you want to run out and get that Beatles, Clapton, Who album.  Someone mentioned a group called The War On Drugs. A good current group that I stumbled upon. There was no massive blitz when their last album dropped. There was nobody waiting in line to buy a copy. To me, that’s the biggest difference. Like Netflix, a music streaming service can only suggest what their algorithms say you might like, but there’s so much more out there.

@deludedaudiophile 

Very true, what you said. The music I grew up with is still what mostly  I listen to today.  It’s a good thing that I grew up with Jazz, Big Band, Show Tunes, Classic Rock, Classical Music, Folk, Progressive Rock…..

@mahgister

I disagree with your reply, and offer you... The real push behind it was nefarious, though that is denied by those who had the power to make it so.

But it is musician that must decide to use this frequency or not.... Engineer can do nothing save "reproduce" what musician decide they will play... And this is another question only musicians can decide anyway...

https://globalnews.ca/news/4194106/440-hz-conspiracy-music/

i was answering about this problem by the immediate only solution : an awakening of the musicians themselves...

But you are right about this  "conspiration"...

It is not the first and last "conspiration" origin ...A change so impactful cannot be implemented only by ignorance....

Medecine and education and banking were oriented by another "conspirations"...

History is like hunting, there is tracks...

And ordinary people, me included, cannot fathom evil depth...It takes a Dostoievesky at least...Where is our Dostoievsky today?

The only writer who described all this crisis i know of  and  most importantly proposed pragmatical  and spiritual solutions died in 1925...

He described before his visible advent the transhumanism/ globalist/ technological cult agenda orientation in this world in details...

Rudolf Steiner... The greatest Goethe scholar...A  chistian seer also....

He wrote about agriculture, medecine, education, art, science and spirituality...

He will be understood better soon, materialism is dying but alas! technology cult replace it... But humanity will not accept it.... If we do, we lost all  freedom...

The agenda is clearly written by Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari...Only ignorance can deny it...