Re: Stereo

[Christopher Bell <cwwbell@gmail.com>]

Respectfully, stereo is indeed an artificial construct, no matter how
well or poorly it imitates the tendency of animal sensory organs to
come in twos. Recorded music intends to place all the sound in a
two-dimensional array that does not represent at all the ways in which
we personally experience "live" sound. Of course, this all changes
when that sound is played back in a room, but the thinking is totally
artificial, in the same way that any man-made approximation of
something "real" is "artificial." Simulacra and Simulation. Think of
commercials proclaiming how "real" the images on an HD tv are.