From: "tm957904" <>
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> Just to clarify what i said regarding my work, when i say i 'mangle',
> i dont necessarily turn sounds into something crazy. I mean that I
> enjoy altering and twisting sounds into whole new contexts.
I was pretty sure you were not at the extreme. The mangle statement
applied much more to some others I've met.
> As a matter of interest, what is the purpose of your recordings? Are
> you involved in conserational research or something? It seems really
> strange speaking to people involved with audio recording, yet not in
> a musical context. Im finding it all very interesting though, and
> hope to learn more
I'm a retired biologist, doing more or less what I like. For many years
this has involved survey of frog distributions in Georgia, documented
mostly by call recordings as that's considerably easier than catching
them. The official survey was 5 years and has been over for a few years,
but there is still plenty to do. During the survey I documented over 800
sites throughout Georgia, supplying thousands of individual species
records, including significant changes in the ranges of a number of
frogs (all increases in range). I'm quite sure I'm the only person in at
least the last 10 years to see and record all the species of frogs in
Georgia. I only got the last species last year, that's the one that had
not been reported in a long time. I've one more, which has not been
reported officially in Georgia that I'm looking for.
Since the survey ended I've helped to produce a CD of Georgia's frogs,
mostly compiled from my survey recordings. And I'm working on higher
quality listening recordings. In another year or two a book on Georgia's
herps will come out as a result of the survey, and it will include a new
CD. For which I've a few new targets. Right now it's looking like it
will be just a listening CD, no ID clips.
I'm also involved in a more peripheral way in several ongoing research
efforts to work out the genetics of frogs. Primarily in collecting toe
clips for DNA testing as I'm the one out and about to collect.
The biggest difference between music recording and nature recording you
will find is that nature recording tends to be recorded in one pass with
no, or very little mixing. Contrast that with current music practice. We
get one take, our talent does not take direction well ;-) And the
acoustics of our "recording studio" are very unpredictable, and
basically unchangeable.
Walt
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