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Originally Posted by Norma J
synthetic.
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I don't want you to think that I'm picking on you, but this oft-aspired to notion of 'authenticity' within the sonic-realm of 'rock' music confuses me for the simple reason that anything amplified or, following a great deal of the studio inventions of the 40s (in the Cageian narrative) or early 60s (in the pop/rock narrative), recorded is, in some respects 'synthetic' insofar as it is not 'as the instrument truly sounds'. By this I mean that 'synthetic' or 'authentic' are essentially non-sequiters of an identity-ism that blights the auspices of the 'truth' narrative to which such arguments aspire/ rely upon.