FSM # 10: Topics that interest you/don´t interest you?
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Thought I´d do another meta topic. For the longest time, I´ve wanted to do a “poll” on what ASPECTS of film music that interest people the most and what you DON´T find particularly interesting. Care to play along? I´ll start:
Interesting:
* In-depth aesthetic discussions – both related to the interaction of film and music and the music in itself
* Sociologial topics – for example “personal” questions or charting particular habits of film score fans
* Topics about our soundtrack listening experience (this includes the whole original vs. rerecording debate, for example)
* Non-film music related topics that aren´t very formal, such as the “Cheers!” thread (a sub category of this would be “humourous, quirky threads about something insignificant that everyone can relate to nonetheless”)Not so interesting:
* Technical, “superficial” topics about formats, technology etc.
* Speculation about upcoming releases
* Topics about the postal system and whether or not people have received this or that CD
* Threads about American films, TV series, politics or people that are beyond my frame of reference (either because it never got any exposure outside the US or simply because it was before my time…or both at the same time)There are more in both categories, but you get my drift….
18 years later, and I still stand by that list, more or less.
Interestingly, I thought list threads were very boring back then. But now, in the insurmountable heap of uninteresting topics, those can actually be fun. So some things have changed.
My reply on FSM hasn’t really changed either. I find all these topics potentially interesting, depending on what is being discussed and explored. I’m also easily just as much interested in recording technology than what is recorded, and I don’t find one topic more “superficial” than the other, just two different things.
I wasn’t either, until two decades of C&C obsessions, various sound quality or track or performance minutia, postal service updates and other mind-numbing things suddenly made lists great again. Of course, I’d rather prefer general aesthetic discussion over lists any day of the week.
I had hoped maybe some of those members who registered, but then decided to only lurk, would list some favourite topics so that I/we could tailormake some threads that made it more interesting for them.
When it comes to soundtracks, apart from listening to them, I am interested in
– the musical mechanics, architecture, theory and practice of music
– origins, references like hommages or plagiarism
– the people behind the music, specifically the composers
– the access of other fans to the music, why they like what, what are their preferences build on, what can I learn from them to enrich my own musical experience.
– how do other fans manage and execute their soundtrack hobby in their daily life
– music recommendations
– trivia and silly mind games around the topic
– film music history
– reception of film music in public media
– detailed fans’ reviews and opinions on certain soundtracks
– Sheet music
– Informationen about new releases
– orchestral music in general
– rerecordings
– gossip on bland modern soundtracks
– fan compositionsAnd in general, rather dialogue than monologue.
Probably there is some more.
What I am not interested in are
– rankings
– score breakdowns
– fan edits
– wave forms
– rcp scores
– electronic scores
– audio home equipmentProbably there is more, too.
With no guarantee of completeness:
Topics that interest me
Physics and fundamental theory, including special and general relativity, especially conceptual nuances around light speed, reference frames, and interpretation.
Universal ethics and morality across cultures, with perspective on coherence between spiritual, philosophical, and scientific worldviews.
Discussions about language, rhetoric, and precise articulation and wording
Forensic-linguistic profiling, and rhetorical dynamics in discussions
Writing and literary style
Sports (if shared interest)
Dramatic writing (screenplay)
Film, Literature, Art in general
Discussions about music, classical or film, including aesthetics, preferences, technical aspects, recording techniques, interpretative approaches to the same work by different conductors, large scale music collection management and classical music organization and metadata, hard and software, audio hardware and listening infrastructure, software devices (MinimServer, NAS-based systems, ROON, Music players), long term data preservation strategies with or without cloud dependence, just about everything that’s got to do with it.
Discussions about whether the neighbors on the block may secretly belong to a Satanic serial killer cult (must get neighbors together and investigate…)
Digital marketing and A.I., Computer Networks, Quantum Computing, Bio computing, fake and real intelligence and emotion; structured approach to Python fundamentals at an advanced mastery level.
Current affairs, politics, economics, legal systems.
Topics I’m not interested in
Whether the Sunday paper in a nearby apartment building should be placed on the steps or on the floor.
Any discussion revolving around people I don’t know that go on for too long, unless they are about the suspected Satanic Serial killer cultists that moved in a few houses away recently.
Any topic or narrative that is discussed with an optimization for harmony rather exploration of truth.
Sports (if not shared interest)
Lengthy discussions about hunting or fishing.
Sushi bar recommendations.
One additional remark on my desinterest in electronic scores. I am generally not desinterested in electronic music. But the area of electronic music in film context doesn’t bother me at all. Exceptions included.
classical music organization
What’s that?
I found myself in a lengthy discussion about organizing and tagging larger digital classical music collections in the ROON Labs Community forum. Not intentionally, I was rather there because of some other questions, but for some reason the discussion often came back to that, so I guess I was interested enough to discuss it at length, which is why I included it here in my list of topics.
So, organizing classical music means basically ways of tagging the collection of classical music by performer, composer, label etc.
I got it then.Yes, and apparently I forgot the satanistic cult in the neighborhood on my list.
Yes to both. 🙂
The whole classical music tagging story happened when I joined the ROON forum with a very specific question about the way ROON handled some compilation albums of mine. I just had a three month trial of ROON and so I tried to put ROON through its paces. I tried to find out why it’s doing what it’s doing with some of my compilation albums, which ROON spread out and divided some tracks, it treated some track as individual albums. That was my actual question, but for some reason that conversation became a thread about the principles and philosophy of classical music tagging, with specific focus on the “Album Artist” tag. (Which, ironically, had nothing to do with my question at all.)
I seriously believe that everyone can tag and do whatever they want with their own music collection, yet I found myself involved in a lengthy discussion about it. It took about a year and hundreds of posts (felt, I didn’t count them) before the thread eventually revealed an answer to the question I originally had. 🙂
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