In the seventeenth video of Adam Niven' s #FBLiveVideoChallenge for Media Theology Adam reflects on one of his Father's Day presents which is a vinyl record that has been carved with a Fremantle Dockers logo.
Showing posts with label vinyl record. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vinyl record. Show all posts
The Resurgence of Vinyl Records and the Rhythm of Life
Having been a collector of music on vinyl record for around 20 years now, it's a bit of a treat to be seeing a resurgence in its availability.
which kind of fits with McLuhan's tetrad concept of retrieval...where a previously obsolesced medium is brought back in a new way...
And whilst it's not a pure retrieval sense, because there's not a new medium that is retrieving the vinyl, perhaps it is a growing awareness in some of the ways the rapidly shifting media ecology is having unwanted impacts on our relationship with music.
which kind of fits with McLuhan's tetrad concept of retrieval...where a previously obsolesced medium is brought back in a new way...
And whilst it's not a pure retrieval sense, because there's not a new medium that is retrieving the vinyl, perhaps it is a growing awareness in some of the ways the rapidly shifting media ecology is having unwanted impacts on our relationship with music.
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