Tag: Listening

"Although fascinating in its own right as a case study of one form of contemporary listening practice, what is particularly notable about the CAS phenomenon is the high level of interest the BBC coverage of the club prompted..."

I am reading a great book by Alex Ross entitled “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century” and came across a passage...

“‘Everything recorded between 1981 and say, 2010 will be known as the dark ages of recorded sound,’ said Young, who had many reasons for disliking the CD.

Have we sacrificed sound quality with digital formats and is that why vinyl is having such a renaissance? Do some albums deserve to be heard beginning to end? Are most of our listening experiences confined to isolated instances such as listening on headphones to our iPods?

Did I have any idea that our small monthly gathering of album appreciators would end up in the international press?