Hahaha! Now you’re thinking like me! :)
Hi Linda!
Been thinking “deeply” about what you said earlier about albums, themes, listening habits.
I think when anyone plays a vinyl album, it’s damaged a little. I don’t know how long it takes to degrade quality to a point anyone would notice. I am sure someone here knows.
But I find myself thinking about the how we communicate with voyager spacecrafts, and how cds work.
Under the hood they use something like Huffman encoding to make sure they can rebuild the whole message from known received parts (voyagers) or oversampling (cds).
Imagining readers googling “Huffman encoding” but hard to understand unless you write out all the details…I think.
(Kurt when we were talking about Wikipedia to check sources I keep thinking to ask you: which version of “leaves of grass” is your favorite? And which was Walt’s favorite?)
Anyway, I don’t have vinyl. (Oh I can check out at the library I think just thought of that) But I have iTunes. But I changed the way I listen to iTunes.
Now I decide what I want to listen to and try to find an original source. (But I think they’re always digitally “remastering”)
Then I listen to the whole album, pretending I’m listening to vinyl.
Then I also don’t look at any of their suggestions (because I don’t want to be influenced by any algorithm) just word of (GW) mouth.
I listened to the new Jack Johnson song “Hold on to the light” on repeat then eventually I heard a carriage return or that sound when the needle reaches the end of the album and goes home.
After that I felt like, maybe I should pretend to get up and go out the needle at the beginning again.