type case with angular hooks and four set rows (Photo: Willi Heidelbach, Wikipedia )
There are book lovers who are fascinated by the artisanal look and the artistic value of books that are set in letterpress lead type with more real and historically prominent journals or printed. Nevertheless, has for almost the entire book production since 1986, long taken the computer composition, and metal type and letterpress became charming niche procedure for book-art collectors. Thus produced books exude the atmosphere of art, craftsmanship and value - but so are better texts published literature as computer-set?
had at this point about pressure, I think, as I held the actual CD "juke" the guitarist and composer Pat Metheny in his hand. Metheny, or digitally-based sound-tinkerer, known for his urge to ever new compositional and stylistic realms push forward, turned his gaze back to the instruments and music boxes history. In the 19th
Century had a few challenges in the Black Forest in Saxony and monstrous mechanical Musical instruments developed that could reproduce the sound of a brass full orchestra. The monsters were in hotel lobbies and other large halls, they were only set in motion by crank drive, and later with engine power, and play what they wanted, they pretended to punch cards. In the early 20th Century it was the instrument inventors even incorporate one or more violins, which were removed mechanically. The invention of the record was then rapid death of the fairground.
Metheny now trying to use the dead to make the murderer was attractive to build a small workshop just for its purposes, a juke, designed a music in which this Orchestrion controlled by his guitar is electronically (a masterpiece of mechatronics) and took a - yes! - Audio (CD) on! reactivated
With this "juke" project Metheny so - to stay in typography analogy - "hot type" and historic "Book Printing" in a dubious way for me. During his juke-project is the guitarist actually includes as a modern computer translator, the first can even build a complex electro-mechanical instrument to with the help of then computer controlled the lead type of mini-robots mechanically balancing out of the box and line by line in the ship set into enforce. If it is unbiased and honest: This looks more complicated and anachronistic as creative.
In view of the "juke" CD you will be amazed, listening can be fun and more fascinated you are, if - for example the Internet or at concerts throughout the corresponding tour - this still looks like around the solo playing guitar as of invisible hand moves the many individual parts of the fairground - sound - from bottles to violins, from drums to piano.
Whether a particular artistic value is created, every music lover should decide for themselves.
Mathias Bäumel
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