Now, being a pianist myself for 13 years of my 18 year life, I think I know something about piano. We truly have lost a sense of our musicality now that we are judging every individual key stroke. Faking a passage? Sorry, even though it sounds good, you still missed that F#, or maybe you cracked hitting that B. I tell you, the masters like Walter Gieseking, Horowitz, Rubinstein, they made SO MANY mistakes, in recordings and performances alike, but nobody criticized it! If those same masters tried a competition today, they wouldn't even get past the preliminary rounds!! We'd be missing out on some of the best music ever made by anybody's fingers!
I say, return to the good 'ol Steinway grand, or even a Bosendorfer. Leave the mistakes for the performer to know.
The series is much more than a simple Mecha-anime. As stated before, it is an extremely deep and meaningful anime. There is so much symbolism, that it rivals the novels that one might read in school. In my opinion, the man could have made a novel, which would have won the nobel prize in literature, the pulitzer, etc. but instead, he chose to express himself in the art form of anime.
I'm just upset at those who do not give anime a chance, and throw it off as people with deformed faces, and that it's "just a cartoon." Once the public start giving it a chance, they will realize that anime is capable of the same, even perhaps more, expression than live action is capable of.
And, if you liked this series, Cowboy Bebop, the Evangelion Movies, Mononoke Hime (actually, ANYTHING by Miyazaki-san!), and just for a shameless plug of my favorite, LOVE HINA!!!
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I saw a similar invention used in "Batman Beyond" a while ago... I no longer watch it of course, but yeah the idea is intriguing. What worries me is the possible military uses. By cancelling sound, armies could cause mass confusion by making illusions of silence, deafness, the list goes on. I fear the day when I am sitting at home, and all of a sudden, the fan of my computer goes silent, and the clicking of my keyboard goes quiet. We wouldn't even hear the explosion.
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Now, being a pianist myself for 13 years of my 18 year life, I think I know something about piano. We truly have lost a sense of our musicality now that we are judging every individual key stroke. Faking a passage? Sorry, even though it sounds good, you still missed that F#, or maybe you cracked hitting that B. I tell you, the masters like Walter Gieseking, Horowitz, Rubinstein, they made SO MANY mistakes, in recordings and performances alike, but nobody criticized it! If those same masters tried a competition today, they wouldn't even get past the preliminary rounds!! We'd be missing out on some of the best music ever made by anybody's fingers! I say, return to the good 'ol Steinway grand, or even a Bosendorfer. Leave the mistakes for the performer to know.
The series is much more than a simple Mecha-anime. As stated before, it is an extremely deep and meaningful anime. There is so much symbolism, that it rivals the novels that one might read in school. In my opinion, the man could have made a novel, which would have won the nobel prize in literature, the pulitzer, etc. but instead, he chose to express himself in the art form of anime. I'm just upset at those who do not give anime a chance, and throw it off as people with deformed faces, and that it's "just a cartoon." Once the public start giving it a chance, they will realize that anime is capable of the same, even perhaps more, expression than live action is capable of. And, if you liked this series, Cowboy Bebop, the Evangelion Movies, Mononoke Hime (actually, ANYTHING by Miyazaki-san!), and just for a shameless plug of my favorite, LOVE HINA!!! End transmission.
I saw a similar invention used in "Batman Beyond" a while ago... I no longer watch it of course, but yeah the idea is intriguing. What worries me is the possible military uses. By cancelling sound, armies could cause mass confusion by making illusions of silence, deafness, the list goes on. I fear the day when I am sitting at home, and all of a sudden, the fan of my computer goes silent, and the clicking of my keyboard goes quiet. We wouldn't even hear the explosion.