audiophile?

If you create a work of music using discrete samples, say 25 - 50 of them, do they overall quality of those samples contribute to the overall quality of the musical piece? For example, we can take a variety of samples from urban or rural life at a CD quality of 16 bit 44.1 Khz, load them into a sampler, modify their pitch and duration and create a melodic line. We could take the exact same sample and record them at 8 bit 11 Khz and the musical work although being exactly the same, would represent itself differently in an aural dimension.

The smaller 'agents' as Marvin Minsky would call them would be the samples that make up the larger work of music. The music itself it created using some type of algorithmic process called creativity. The same samples at different resolutions could be inputted into this algorithm and yield drastically different results. For example another way to explain this would be 1 violin player in an 80 piece orchestra. That one violin player is subject to an entire reality of its own thus affecting the quality, tone, and mood of its performance. That violin is one sample of the entire orchestra and its idiosyncrasies could be analogous to the sample and bitrate. When you begin changing the smaller agents of a larger picture, the results change.

As we have probably deduced, the algorithm that places or creates the order out of the smaller agents of sound is far more important than the quality of the actual agents themselves. A good example is the Mac software Logic. Logic is a Mac based sequencer that allows for samples to be manipulated in a way as to make music. Different sounds can be layered, re order, etc. to create a sonic landscape of ordered sound. Ordered sound is generally the most agreed upon definition for Music. In our current generation, I am noticing is far more commonplace to be able to generate 'cool' sounds than to actually arrange them in a harmonious and meaningful way. However subjective the words harmonious and meaningful are, still doesn't take the point away from the argument that the accessibility to musical creation tools is at an all time high and therefore we perceive this as the effect of a downgrade in overall musical quality in society. Anyone can get access to amazing sample banks, but few can arrange them in a manner that is perceived as pleasant to the ears and minds.

The audio industry is filled with 'audiophiles' who fight tooth and nail to preserve digital sampling rate qualities of up t0 192Khz (two times above the threshold of human perceptible hearing) and for what? The real quality is in the composition of these sounds, not the quality of the sounds themselves. Radio creates a false standard that people are gullible enough to fall for. I write it off as a simple obsessive compulsive human trait that the mind has a hard time ignoring which stands in the way of what genuine human creativity is based upon - emotion.