I just read this piece on how the public presentation of music has become progressively amplified, and the death of softness, subtlety, and dynamic range. Fitting, as I was sending some of the loudest and most bombastic classical music ever written, barreling forward at maximum volume towards my Cochlea as I read the same piece.
Indeed, pick up any of the latest hits from the supermarket shelf, and the first thing that comes into your mind is, 'Wow!' as the clean, smooth notes hit you like the blast of air from a leaf blower. Music today really seems to have progressively tilted towards uniform loudness, instead of keeping a wide dynamic range. A loud, clean track is a hit on the radio. A track with soft interludes is a gap-filler, meant for the spare radio time between the instant radio hits.
So, to help my loudness-seeking bretheren further damage their hearing, I request that they atleast do so in style, by listening to some Symphonic big-band orchestral classical music such as-
1. Sergey Profokiev- Romeo&Juliet-'Monagues and Capulets' (excerpt) suite 2 no. 1
2. Carl Orff- Carmina Burana- O Fortuna
3. Richard Wagner- Ride of the Valkries
4. Gustav Holst- The Planets suite-'Mars, the bringer of war' (particularly malleus-assaulting)
5. Paul Dukas- the Sorcerer's Apprentice
6. Modest Petrovich Mussogorsky- Night on the bare mountain
7. Sir Edward Elgar- Land of hope and Glory
On a second thought, here is another loudness related link...
Indeed, pick up any of the latest hits from the supermarket shelf, and the first thing that comes into your mind is, 'Wow!' as the clean, smooth notes hit you like the blast of air from a leaf blower. Music today really seems to have progressively tilted towards uniform loudness, instead of keeping a wide dynamic range. A loud, clean track is a hit on the radio. A track with soft interludes is a gap-filler, meant for the spare radio time between the instant radio hits.
So, to help my loudness-seeking bretheren further damage their hearing, I request that they atleast do so in style, by listening to some Symphonic big-band orchestral classical music such as-
1. Sergey Profokiev- Romeo&Juliet-'Monagues and Capulets' (excerpt) suite 2 no. 1
2. Carl Orff- Carmina Burana- O Fortuna
3. Richard Wagner- Ride of the Valkries
4. Gustav Holst- The Planets suite-'Mars, the bringer of war' (particularly malleus-assaulting)
5. Paul Dukas- the Sorcerer's Apprentice
6. Modest Petrovich Mussogorsky- Night on the bare mountain
7. Sir Edward Elgar- Land of hope and Glory
On a second thought, here is another loudness related link...
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