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 RE: Dancers' interest in flamenco mu... (in reply to Ramón)
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Hm, i cant relate to that. The few pro dancers ive met were all very interested in flamenco and also guitar playing. It depends on your attitude to music, and on which level you want to have your performance. Some see it like this: the dancer is here. And the music (guitar, palmas, cajon, violin, singing,...) is ..................................... over there. I was always against this way of thinking, but for some dancers it works better (as hard as it might sound). I just dont waste a thought on such things anymore, so it doesnt bug me.
There are also dancers that have never been to a Paco concert, can you imagine?!   screw them 
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Date May 4 2009 7:01:55
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Ricardo
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RE: Dancers' interest in flamenco mu... (in reply to Adam)
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ORIGINAL: ramparts
Sorry to go off-topic for a second but...
What do y'all think of string theory's potential as an accurate description of quantum gravity? Higher-dimensional supergravities have made sense since Kaluza-Klein theory, and tend to be very elegant. That said, while I'm skeptical of all of the proposed "alternatives" to string theory as well, we need to wonder how beneficial it is in the long run to physics that most theory work done these days will lie outside the realm of observation for decades, if not longer. Thoughts?
Interesting ideas. STring theory and others, well, obervation or testing of predictions I understood to be out of our ability forever, not decades. (requiring some particle excellerator larger than the visible universe to produce energies needed to "see" a string or anything else down that small as a plank length).
Something I have noticed recently that the human brain seems to have a flaw which allows these illogical diaposing ideas to co exist. For example, science and religion, standard model and general relativity, wave particle duality, dark matter and dark energy, open or closed universe, taranto taranta, cantiña de pini o alegria, bulerias por solea or solea por bulerias, the negra flamenca and the classical guitar?, etc.
It all points to the fact that neither one is ENTIRELY correct description of the whole picture, and requires some vagueness to come to grips with full reality of it all. With only 5 sense we can't describe it all, we can't put EVERYTHING into its neat little box. We need another dimension of percpection to "see" the complete picture, but it is not physically possible. So we must sit and just enjoy our lives and accept that we are not yet meant to know all the answers, even though the entire universe is just sitting right here in front of us, all answers given before we know the questions.
Somedays my ears are better than others. For example if I am sick, I lose LOTS of low frequencies and volume. I notice this doing live sound. Our ears are not even alwasy the best judge of sound. Things change. My dream of recording or live sound is to have a floating sphere that amplifies the same sound as needed in all directions. Perhaps, even a 4 dimensional hypersphere could somehow even capture and transmit the elusive duende in someway ('hey the eq is good on the guitar, but can we turn up the duende a notch?). But obviously that technology is way out of reach at this time.
So, in the mean time, I quite enjoy recordings or live sound where the guitar lets say, is very close sounding, flat eq, no effects, NO COMPRESSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, and very loud, as loud as possible with no distortion hiss or feedback to have the MAXIMUM dynamic range possible. The speaker needs to have a lot of good high end response. I take that over a big bassy horn anyday.
And now lets add the GUITAR and the PLAYER to the equation....and the fact I only listen to music driving in the car!. 
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Date May 7 2009 7:26:10
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Ricardo
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RE: Dancers' interest in flamenco mu... (in reply to JasonMcGuire)
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ORIGINAL: JasonMcGuire
Compressors are evil things ..... Cantiñas de Pinini beats Alegrias any day of the week....... Romeras too. I never saw a big bassy horn before, usually its the horn(comprssion driver) that produces the highs in a speaker system, but the East Coast is a special place and having a tiny understanding of Quantum Physics I guess anything is possible as long as we aren't paying too much attention........ Complain about dancers, segue to complaining about recording technology, segue to string theory, segue to live sound issues and cantiñas, segue to 70's Paco recordings........ wow.
compressors are sometimes a necessary evil....but for me the less the better. In Rito y geografia they interview Pinini's daughter and ask her about her dad's famous Cantiñas and she sort of got mad and said "look guys, that was his Alegrias, not the cantiñas they sing down in Cadiz"....or something like that....and the aficionados had no choice, but to go with what they understand about it rather than except it from the horses mouth (putting things in a box with a nice lable was my point), so they call it "Cantiñas de Pinini o "Alegrias"...
Oh and horn is my personal typo for that big cone thing that rips all the time. Seriously sorry for that one.
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Date May 7 2009 13:33:30
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Yes, the whole f***ing 200 times i played it exactly like that 
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