![]() ![]() But listen to the extended instrumental intro to the Temptations' "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" listen to the reverb. That's what memory, in fact, is: the history of forgetting. As Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, pointed out in Lectures on The Phenomenology of Inner Time-Consciousness (1928), once a sound happens, it immediately goes away and the moment it's over, we begin to forget it. Reverb is something that happens right between the performer and the listener. It works directly at the level of the senses, affecting us before we can analyze it and decide what is happening. And are we not the music while the music lasts? What he really wants, though he may not know it, is the echo you hear in caverns and cathedrals, that massive reverberation which makes sound seem to be more than what it is, which actually turns sound into space. He wants that bathroom echo, that sound that fills his ears as it bounces off the tiles. He's like all the rest of us: He likes the way his voice sounds in the shower better than it does in the dry room of reality. ![]() "Turn up the reverb, man." That's what the singer up on stage says to the soundman at the mixer at the back of the hall during the sound check. ![]()
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