I agree!The same thing that makes an analog grainy, hue inbalanced, unstaged photograph more engaging than a sharp digital photo
I'd say they are both engaging, but for different reasons. A super sharp photo with accurate color is more transparent in some sense. You are seeing "through" to the objects in the photo as clearly as possible. It's less about the medium of photography than it is about showing you the thing in question with the maximum possible information density, accuracy, and clarity. The medium gets out of the way, so to speak. But with something grainier, with less accurate color, with light bleed, and so on, it is more about the medium, the interpretation, and the mood. It is partly about the gauzy veil that is in the way, which makes it feel like a distant memory or a dream. It is more colored.
I love Boards of Canada. The wistful feelings I experience with their music are almost too thick at times. I can't listen to them all the time.
I am also old enough that I remember TV programs like that, and tape wow and flutter, and so on, so it taps into my childhood memories.
I love synths and effects and all this technology and possibilities they offer, but I don't love a lot of the electronic music out there. I can't take the monotonous four-on-the-floor boof, boof, boof boof of so much of it. Feels like a pounding headache! And so overdone! And I am not a big fan of 1980s synth pop and that sort of thing. I am always searching for electronic music that I actually like. Boards of Canada are a rarity in that they really click with me. I wish there was more music like this, not the same style exactly, but more moody, dreamy, psychedelic, and so on, and less about dancing, and not so focused on the kick drum. I like rhythms too, but I like them more varied, interesting, and organic, and perhaps more subtle.
Statistics: Posted by JO512 — Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:50 am