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"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "ScottW" <ScottW48@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > Do any two performances, even by the same conductor,
> > sound the same?
>
> Chances of something as long and complex as an orchestral work sounding
the
> same = 0.
>
> Even short solo pieces are easy to ABX from performance to performance.
So true, but I would take it further. In my teaching of conducting, I
see this all the time: two conductors can give a simple downbeat for
ONE chord, and the two can try to give it exactly the same way, and yet
the sound will be different.
>
> > We're talking about replicating. Even a recording won't
> > sound the same as the original.
>
> Depends on how you define the origional. If you define the original as
> being the electrical signal going into the recorder than the
possibilities
> of "sounds the same" are good. However the action of microphones and
mixing
> are easy to pick out in a close listening test.
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