LIVE ROCK CRITIC IN 2018 : COOL SOUNDS

                    THE MUSICIAN AND THE COMPOSER             CREATE COOL SOUNDS 

What is a Cool sound? It is an intriguing sound, an evocative sound, or a sound that takes you away from the ordinary. There is the overall transmission of sound, from near, from far, ricocheting through passages or wistfully distant in the open spaces or clear and bold loudly dominating the  senses. Cool sounds are those which bring to mind such as passing trains or planes or the sounds of parades and sirens moving and shifting and  dopplering . Cool sounds morph. Cool sounds sound cool or torridly hot, serene or hysterical, calm or frenetic.  Cool sounds will transport your mind. 

There was a time when I pursued cool sounds. Today the array of digital effects, samples and sequencers makes the creation of cool sounds reliable and easy compared to using room acoustics  and feedback although those and other analog real room sound modifications have their charm. What would that charm be?  It is very cool to create that certain note and turn the guitar towards the speakers it is amplified through and hear and feel the resonance as the guitar strings sympathetically vibrate in unison or dissonance or even counterpoint with the amplifier output.   You can feel it in your fingers, you can feel it in your toes, you can feel it in your brain vibrating. You can hear it directly and echoing and vibrating walls and glass everywhere in the room. 

COOL SOUNDS WILL DRAW YOU BACK TO PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN JUST TO HEAR