Deconstructed fragments are spontaneously shattered in their hands, revealing a landscape of true images. All those French reflections on language, signs, simulations, fractal power, result in the conservation of forgotten or lost destinies as truth and labor. Old media are not aware of their purity. They are here to stay. Once the media, always the media.
Ornate instruments have no quarrel with wax cylinders or CDs.
It would be more consistent of the authentic performers if they would render their historical timbre only within the old medium of the parlor, and tried to convince us that microphones cause their viola da gambas and hammer dulcimers to go out of tune. Even if medial disruption of the instruments could be scientifically proven, and this knowledge converted into a truly authentic sound, the essence of the thing would never penetrate the ear molded to media. Even authentic art performances cannot exist without recording and reproduction. The old-music circles lack the will to dissociate themselves from the media. By nature, media seek to associate with their peers.