Musicality and Engineering

[thatguy]

How many of you have come out of a movie hall wanted to talk about the projector designer's mysterious skills because the movie was very 'involving' and had 'immediacy' and the characters felt 'real'?

I know one lady who has done nothing but watch TV in the last ten years. Her appreciation of the nuances of daughter-in-law mother-in-law relationship in balaji telefilm serials is way above par. I would assume she would qualify as someone who has TV 'viewing skills'. Now only if I could find a TV engineer to team up with her *That* would be one killer TV.

 

[square_wave]

@that guy,

Sorry. It will not make a killer TV

Capability to appreciate any art form does not guarantee capability to appreciate the fine art of recreation of sound or picture using electronic designs.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Yes. that's true. Equally, even someone highly educated in the history and appreciation of art cannot tell a painter how to paint. They might, however, have a useful conversation with the painter about what to paint.

We enjoy music. Does that make us musicians? Does it mean that we even understand anything, beyond perhaps basic time signatures and major and minor scales?

(Indian classical audiences are an exception: many are very knowledgable. But it doesn't make them musicians)

 

[square_wave]

Yes. that's true. Equally, even someone highly educated in the history and appreciation of art cannot tell a painter how to paint. They might, however, have a useful conversation with the painter about what to paint.

Well said

 

[tirthankar]

Yes. that's true. Equally, even someone highly educated in the history and appreciation of art cannot tell a painter how to paint. They might, however, have a useful conversation with the painter about what to paint.

That is very true..

But here we aren't talking about creation, but the reproduction of art... or rather, judging how accurately or inaccurately it has been reproduced. Like a person who investigates the authenticity of an artwork needs to be well versed in art to make the proper judgement.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Like a person who investigates the authenticity of an artwork needs to be well versed in art to make the proper judgement.

But he does not need to be able to make art himself. The art world is full of such experts who are not artists.

Hmmm. The art analogy complicates things. The technical expertise is 100% necessary; nothing can be made, or at least not made well, if the craft is not mastered ...but technical expertise is also worthless without the idea and the inspiration and the desire to express.

Really, we should interview some engineers on this. All else is just pure speculation. There's plenty of stuff on the net, but remembering where to find it is another matter.

 

[square_wave]

inspiration and the desire to express.

Really, we should interview some engineers on this. All else is just pure speculation. There's plenty of stuff on the net, but remembering where to find it is another matter.

Just hang around on diyaudio. There are many high end designers who frequent the boards.

From my personal experience with a much respected designer, subjective listening tests using learned musicians was very much part of the last mile in the design.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Even reading NwAvGuy... I know that listening matters as much as measuring to him, though he is as passionate about engineering as only an amateur (in the sense of non-commercial) can be. No marketing department, no sales spiel: just his lab, instruments and ears.