Ronja wrote:I would say that there'a a very low percentage of population who are really "audiophiles" and this word is much overused. I remember quite interesting discussion about that on Polish forum about electronic music (but not this about JMJ, one about electronic music in general)...it's hard to explain this in English, but I think that it's something more than just caring about the sound. Audiophiles are for me people with extraordinary sensitive ears, who can for example notice very slight differences in quality of sound, which most people can't.
Audiopohiles have really top-end expensive audio gear and listening rooms.
They pick on recording imperfections (audio, bad mics, bad mix, bad preamps, bad stereo image, etc) and gear/media imperfections (errors, distortion, etc).
As far as electronic music, it's not the fact that we don't "care" about melody, we do as much as others. The thing is that the electronic sounds, even simple ones, contain melody in themselves.
You can blow a horn for 5 minutes (if you can) that you'll only get... sound... if press a key on a synth (analog) on a "evolving" patch and you get... melody, it's more than one sound, whatever... hard to explain.
With stereo panning, or 3D, it even gets sweeter, melodies all over the place. Hence why a "symphonic" version of a good electronic tune sounds worst. The proper way is to design each track for each type of sound.
You can of course do the Oxygene 4 squary wave brass lead with a acoustic horn and sound good... but it still will lack the delay (which brings in another melody)... but you can't do the Eminent phased pads with violins... unless you get the players running like hell in a circle while playing the strings to try and phase them... so, there's also "melody" in the phasing... or is there?
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AMR
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