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Why Gen Z Doesn’t Care About Music – one opinion

Updated March 7, 2024 | Published June 18, 2022 by M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4iFa6E_yY Great comments: If you want to know why kids don’t enjoy music, listen to the subtractions of MP3 recording from source material (on vinyl, or 24b CD, or OGG/VORBIS). Half the song removed by the digital compression, resulting in a beautiful looking cake that has no nourishment and tastes (sounds) thin and unsatisfying. … Read more

Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music

Updated February 28, 2024 | Published April 2, 2021 by M

Mark Katz, a professor at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University, discussed his book, “Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music.” The event was sponsored by the Library’s John W. Kluge Center, the Music Division and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. According to Katz, who teaches in the … Read more

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This website largely concerns vibrations, oscillations, energies — vibratory anything — with life, physics, science, music in primary focus, plus oddball tidbits mixed-in for flavor and zest.

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All is inseparably connected via vibration. Per scripture, sound was the beginning: If “God is two octaves above man,” but ‘silence is golden,’ doesn’t that leave us somewhere between precious and divine? We should live up to that.