nessus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan) (11/03/89)
> [IED:] For the record: Kate said once, after finishing > _The_Dreaming_, that she had decided that the character of digital > sound was less satisfactory to her than that of analog sound. She > said something to the effect that she _liked_ the slight tape-hiss > one got with analog tape. So the fact that _The_Sensual_World_ is an > AAD CD could have been predicted. I think that if your recollection is correct that Kate has been at least somewhat inconsistent on this issue. I have somewhere an interview with Kate done after *The Dreaming* where she said that she would never mix another album digitally again. The reason she gave for this, however, is that mixing digitally was too much of a hassle. Of course, this was back in 1982, when the technology was in its infancy and I'm sure the user-interface has improved greatly by now. For the record, *The Dreaming* was mixed both digitally and analogly. Kate said that there really wasn't much of a difference in the end result between the two, but picked the digital mix because of a slight "crystaline" distortion that that the digital mix added that Kate felt was appropriate for the feel of the album. > Despite the fact that |>oug's only reason for raising the subject > was (apparently) to try to make another low swipe at IED, IED agrees > with |>oug that Kate does seem to have been quite deceitful in her > recent interviews. Stop being paranoid Andy. The purpose for raising the topic was to point out an interesting phenomenon I noticed, that also happened to be relevent to the topic of discussion we had had recently on whether Kate's words were the end-all and be-all of Katology. The intent was not that of a "low swipe". > No, no, no. No-one ever said that at all, least of all IED!! > What you are (mis-)remembering is a joke report that appeared in > the April 1st, 1988 (i.e. April Fool's Day) edition of _The_Guardian_, > in which it was said that Kate had accepted a role for the next > season of _Dr._Who_. This was _obviously_ false, as IED and at least > one other Love-Hound hastened to point out. Was this really printed in *The Guardian*, or was it the creation of whoever posted the article to Love-Hounds? Whoever wrote it definitely new something about Kate and wasn't a mere hack cranking out a funny. It also seems unlikely to me that *The Guardian* would go to all that trouble over an artist who at that point was quite out of the limelight. But I suppose anything is possible. |>oug "Love is a grave mental disease." -- Plato
hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui) (11/04/89)
Remember, a composer is completely concerned about how the music sounds. That is why you need such accurate studio monitor speakers. Remember KT once said that she's no more than a brain with big ears sitting on top of the mixing console? Getting more to the point, rap is now totally into "phonograph playing" or some such, and they even list the credit for those "performers" (!).