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SKULLFLOWER

                                             March 11, 2009

Here's my Skullflower anecdote about MP3s:

Back in the days when I was working for an
incarnation of eMusic (several buy-outs
ago), I noticed that they had a release
from Skullflower in the collection, and I
listened to it at work.  Skullflower has a
pretty seriously noisy sound, but
sometimes I like serious noise, and the
Skullflower mp3s sounded pretty good to
me.  That seemed a little funny, because I
was pretty sure I'd listened to the CD
before down in KZSU's library (I was a DJ
at KZSU in those days), and the CD hadn't
grabbed me.

But the next time I was on the air, I pulled
the Sullflower CD out of the library on
impulse, and tried playing a track.  It
struck me as horribly annoying.  Hm, did I
pick a bad track? I faded the Skullflower
down, faded something else up, and skipped
to another Skullflower track.  I did that
several times, and found them all horribly
annoying.

My conclusion: this particular "music" is
full of screeching high-frequencies that
drive me up the wall, but the mp3 format's
compression does a good job of screening
them out.

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