Just more ‘commercialization’ of a holiday, and a dose of psy-ops.
]]>– Badtux the Easily Amused Penguin
]]>Regarding the North Koreans, electricity is strictly rationed there and you would never see lights for long after dark, so yeah, lighting up your border posts garishly and flaunting that you have power to waste on silliness might count as propaganda, the North Koreans have a bit of a point there. More on the top of their head than anything else, but still, a point :).
]]>As someone who can’t carry a tune in a bucket, my experience has been with the electronics, as a DJ and working with a band. There are a lot of effects that became more available as time went on, even with the analog equipment, so I assume that digital would make it even easier to obtain what you want.
It may be that singers are more focused because their instrument is ‘built-in’, and intuitive in the best. My observation was based on the groups I once listened to almost constantly, and the fact that I once considered playing the drums. Usually drummers lose it when they anticipate a coming ‘flourish’ and change position slightly.
]]>Actually, and not intuitively, a strict percussion helps in part by allowing the high-pitched instrument players to play deliberately ever so slightly OFF the beat.
I don’t know if you’ve ever worked with music studio s/w (I haven’t done much myself), but one feature that always fascinated me in preparing MIDI tracks was the ability to add/subtract a tiny and random Δt so that notes MISSED the beat (or subdivision of the beat) ever so slightly. The effect is so tiny you don’t hear it consciously, but it really enhances the sense of an ensemble of human performers.
]]>Q: How do you know the percussion section is at your door?
A: They rush it.