Grain of the Voice

Ok guys here is what I got out of the chapter after I have read it for the third time, please tell me what you think of my ideas, and tell me what you got out of it as well. I know that together we can get the meaning of this chapter.
The first part of the chapter Barthes is talking about how adjectives describe music poorly, and that using adjectives is the easy way out. Barthes talks about how music is an access to Jouissance. Jouissance as far as I can tell is like bliss or joy. So what Barthes is trying to say is that adjectives are poor at describing what music is good at accessing Jouissance. Furthermore Barthes says that we should not try to better describe the adjectives, or better create adjectives to describe music, “ It is not by struggling against the adjective, Diverting the adjective you find on the tip of the tongue towards some substantive or periphrasis”.
That’s part one, in part two Barthes goes on to say how we should look at music. The first thing he throws out there is something called the GRAIN. Right now I am thinking that the grain is the individual voice inside all of us. The grain is the unique way that we all would express ourselves through singing. The Grain is how the individual shows up through the song. Anyway besides the grain Barthes talks about the Pheno and geno songs. Now the Pheno song is what we think of when we thing of music. Barthes says that it is everything which it is customary to talk about. On the other hand we have the Geno song which is the volume of the singing and speaking voice. How the words are said, where the melody really works at the language. The key distinction I saw was that Pheno song has to do with communication, where as Geno song does not. I think that Geno song and grain go hand in hand, but I am not sure of their connection right now. Excipt that both of them get at the part of the song that makes you feel good.
Barthes goes on to give example of Geno song and Pheno Song, what I took away from the examples was, that first of all a person how is a critically acclaimed singer has a strong Pheno song. A person who is a technical singer, or fits into their genre really well could be considered Phenotipic singer. The other singer who Barthes describes as Genotypic, seem to have focused on the letters while he was singing. Through the way that Panzera was singing his vowels, Barthes could here a voice inside his voice. So the Geno song is the voice inside the voice. The message that the song has that is not communicated.

Wraping up the chapeter Barthes talks about how the masses are changing music. The masses prefer phenotypic music, that is easy explainable. And how mass recordings are leading all music to level out at perfection which is a bad thing, because there is a loss of individuality.

Michael