During Week 2 of the course we discussed Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows, the idea that “The Medium Is The Message” and Idealism vs Realism. Carr’s book does a lot of talking down and is at time heavy handed in its lecturing but he makes a couple of good points. His argument is that our attention […]

The first week of class we discussed dynamic range compression and why it is so prevalent in music today. I was aware that audio quality had taken a hit but was taken aback by how much more compression exists today compared to decades past. Later, when looking at http://dr.loudness-war.info/ to see how Michael Jackson’s discography looks […]

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