Comparing Music Recordings

Back in the “vinyl days”, comparing various interpretations was cumbersome, even if one had access to multiple turntables (…): if you didn’t want to listen to entire interpretations, one after each other (making it hard to remember all details from interpretations just heard), you were bound to have multiple LPs ready in their sleeves, place them on a turntable, position the needle…

Thoughts on Evolution in Music

Just some fragmentary, amateurish thoughts on a complex topic of which a detailed discussion is way beyond the scope of a blog entry (I’m not qualified to provide comprehensive coverage of this topic anyway). When thinking about cultural and technological evolution since medieval times, it is common to assume / state that things happen at an exponential pace…