Where is the breath in digital recording?

The passing on of oral tradition has built into it system the contemporization of the tradition. People forget. People relate what they learn from someone else, however well-intentioned or skillful, who’s memory might not have been so keen. So the technology of digital recording and motion capture is something to be celebrated in principle. But then the content becomes fixed; it becomes institutionalized. It loses its vitality.

This following article comes from Japan House Los Angeles.

https://www.japanhouse.jp/losangeles/articles/local-performing-arts-and-technology.html