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Una's Lecture with Ben Ratliff: Mere Virtuosity

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Music critic and author Ben Ratliff was for 20 years a jazz and pop critic at the New York Times. He is the author of four books, including Coltrane: The Story of a Sound.

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http://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780374277901 Most discussions of music in the digital age have focused on open access and the ethics of downloading. Ratliff, a New York Times jazz and pop critic for nearly twenty years, and the author of The Jazz Ear, Coltrane, and Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings, looks instead at the sheer wealth of music available today, and considers how this unprecedented diversity changes how we listen.

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"Another way of becoming a shareholder in a piece of music is by singing it."

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"Obviously there was no human hand behind the sound, pressing a button down for some sufficient length of time."

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The book provides a landscape for musicians everywhere on different concepts surrounding music in general and the composition of songs. My favorite aspects include when Ratliff discussed "repetition" in music and how there are patterns in different songs. As well as when he was talking about "audio space" which refers to the abstract of the record being made and "endless inventory" which is the artist's primary built up collection of music over the course of time and the evolution that occurred during that. Personally, what I found to be problematic was the concept of "transmission" which is apparently when singers go transparent with their voices in order to communicate something. I had a difficult time understanding how a direct line can send a message through the force of his/her voice. It has changed the way I perceived music by illustrating the different components that come along with the making of a record.