Seemingly Intractable Questions In Pop, No.1 in a Series

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How do you make pop work on TV?

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

music as we listen to it on headphones -- even mp3-level -- is MUCH more "dimensional" than TV itself, let alone TV sound

this is a real problem waiting to be addressed -- or used or exploded up through somehow

a: x factor is a programme about the making of itself (in a fairly dishonest way but even so)
b: classical music -- mozart, haydn etc -- is "music about the making of itself" (what you hear is an exploration of how it's constructed)
c: somewhere in this there a potential of a really strong programme (or genre) which somehow got a. and b. to dramatise one another, and turn the content and the choosing of the content into the subject and the story and the reason to watch (but part of its enquiry wd be the accusation is TV good enuff sound-wise to get this project on on-screen)
d: i am mad

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

b: classical music -- mozart, haydn etc -- is "music about the making of itself" (what you hear is an exploration of how it's constructed)

ok I've been repeatedly ploughing through early Beethoven quartets lately, and this = most excellently correct and fun music insight *ever* right now.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

(could also be said abt TashBed's "These Words", ie this trick still works sometimes?)

(more a description than an exploration I'll grant though.)