Re:Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation
by rotexo on Sunday October 11, 2020 @08:27PM
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David Byrne’s book “How Music Works” has an interesting bit about how the common contemporary way of recording recording (recording different tracks separately) can feel very unnatural for bands that are used to playing live, in an actual acoustic space. In addition to listeners having two audio channels in, the performers do also, which influences their perception of how the music sounds, which influences how they perform, and so on. As others discuss in this thread, there is an exacting art involved in applying effects to recreate a sense of acoustic space from the dry tracks of individual musical performances. Which is a long way of saying: it is unclear why the consumer would want those dry individual tracks, when the performers themselves want the effects applied.
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Re:Open Source Tools and Data for Music Source Separation
by cannam on Monday October 12, 2020 @04:23AM
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I like Kristin Hersh's description of studio recording:
"What we did was, we took the song apart, played each piece separately, then stuck the pieces back together. In my opinion, it didn't work. We'd torn the song's limbs off, sewed them back on and then asked it to walk around the room. Of course, there's no song left anymore; we killed it."