This may be boring.

I was reading my Rolling Stone today and it had a very interesting article in it. The article talks about how in music engineering, sound quality is at its worst. Engineers are making the music so that everything is at the loudest level, which in turn sacrifices the quality of the music. You don’t get to hear the individual instruments and parts of the songs because they are all “smudged together.” A man by the name of Daniel Levitin is quoted in this article, which is the same guy I’m happen to be reading a book on. He says that “the excitement in music comes from variation in rhythm, timbre, pitch, and loudness… If you hold one of those constant, it can seem monotonous.” This also explains why we often fell the urge to skip to another song. MP3’s also mean worse sound. Because a computer compresses the music, it causes the sound to be flat and lack “high-end detail.”  CD sound is better but no one’s buying them anymore. This sort of makes me sad, but hopefully people will become more aware of it. Not to say this is an extremely pressing issue in our world right now, but it seems that the quality as well as the appreciation of music is going down. Also, albums aren’t created like they used to be. I’ve heard my Dad talk about  how you couldn’t just pick and choose random songs to listen to on an album, you had to listen to the whole thing (example, Pink Floyd). I just think it’s interesting how music has evolved, even within the last 10 years. It’s disappointing to me to think that nowadays, anyone can be counted as a musician because of the audio engineering advances.I leave you this quote from Rolling Stone: “Nickelback’s All the Right Reasons celebrated 100 weeks on the Billboard Top Thirty album chart in September. Since the 6 million people who bought the album weren’t swayed by a media blitz (the band declined most interviews), tabloid antics (they’re Canadian), or some cool factor (come on), there’s only one scary conclusion: They actually like the music.” I thought it was funny. Also, I can’t do paragraphs anymore, so if anyone could help me with that, it would be great.