#SPACE. distance. physicality. ugh i could helplessly repeat these words all day and still not be able to express myself | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

cosmogyros · 4 months ago

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I swear to God, modern music production is so FLAT that it physically hurts to listen to. There's no spatial depth to it, no air, no sense of this music actually being performed in a real three-dimensional space. Please can we bring back breath and air and space in music production?

#i've been trying to translate this feeling into words for months and i know i still haven't succeeded #this post is a weak attempt at saying what i mean. but it doesn't achieve that goal very well #i just... i don't have any better words right now #does anyone else know what i mean?#when there's a beat of silence in the middle of a song these days #the silence sounds just as 'dead' as if the track had ended.#silence can be audible and almost tangible... you know?#it can have a certain dimensionality and realness to it #but all of that gets edited out of most music nowadays.#and another thing: i don't know if it's over-mastering or what #but the sound is often almost as dead as the silence #like a butterfly trapped flat under glass #every sound comes across as being exactly the same physical distance from my ears #the sounds are all lined up jostling each other elbow to elbow and competing for the listener's attention #instead of being spread out all over the room - each one coming from a different place #i remember when you'd have two speakers; if one of them was broken you could sometimes only hear some of the instruments #because the others would normally have come through the broken speaker only.#SPACE. distance. physicality. ugh i could helplessly repeat these words all day and still not be able to express myself #don't mind the ranting of a grumpy old codger i guess #about music #tag rant #cosmo gyres #personal #text #my apologies - this post is extra autistic #my neurodivergency really comes out in the way i experience music #musicblogging

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