digital revolution... or was it a coup?
once upon a time,
life was real, not virtual.
by analogy man grew in his understanding of creation,
by analogy he discovered the use of fire, the wheel...
aviation...
...first producing, later recording, sound, our interest at hand here.
then a group of mostly males, often seriously disturbed, all members of one minority human subfamily come along with one brilliant idea.
(needles to say it's the same minority human subfamily that gave us wonderful gifts like: colonialism, slavery on a planetary scale (african holocaust), jewish holocaust, financial elites' world domination, world bank, imf and wto, etc. etc. etc..)
the brilliant idea:
"why don't we translate all major aspects of life into a code of "0's" and "1's" with our proprietary encoding system and then decode it back to them after we sucked all life from it?"
sound a bit like galactus, the fantastic four's arch enemy, no?
so in a few years gone were:
the art of writing a mail and post it with a stamp on it,
the poetry of photography and cinema,
the spirit of conceiving, producing, performing and recording music...
among countless other things.
yes i know, there are exceptions and yes, i know, i am writing this on a connected computer for a worldwide audio forum...
but a vinyl LP of reggae roots' legend burning spear is spinning:
real, analog vibrations feel the room
one love!