23Sep/090
Recorded Music as “Overhearing”
The reason why gramophone music is so unsatisfactory to any one accustomed to real music is not because the mechanical reproduction is bad - that would be easily compensated by the hearer’s imagination - but because the performers and the audience are out of touch. The audience is not collaborating; it is only overhearing.
- Collingwood
HT: Peter Leithart
