On Sep 4, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Don Lloyd wrote:
> There are trainrecordists, of course. Don Hunter comes to mind:
>
> http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/Pages/dh_virtual_tour/home.html
>
> A major part of his legacy consists of many archival recordings of
> steam
> locomotives all over the Pacific Northwest, captured in the 40=92s and
> 50=92s
> when they were still operating. He wanted to preserve certain
> soundscapes
> that he knew were vanishing. The recordings that are being done right
> now in
> Muir Woods and other parks will eventually have historic value as well.
> While I can thoroughly enjoy listening to Hunter's recordings, just
> now I
> can't imagine deriving pleasure from listening to airplanes.
Thanks - I could enjoy some old train sounds. Remember the early stereo
demonstration records of trains passing thru the living room?
Side note; in the 70s I heard a feature from CBC radio about the people
at the Findhorn community in Scotland - now we'd call them new agers,
and some are still around. It was all about tuning in to nature spirits
and stuff like that, but one moment stands out in memory: While
interviewing one of the people, the Royal Navy airfield across the bay
from them started some jet engines in the background, and the woman in
the interview said something to the effect that even there, in that
warlike and mechanical sound, you can hear the spirit of the trees that
made the oil and the soil that made the metal, that everything has its
natural origins - and they fall silent listening to the sound of
aircraft turbines...
It was actually a moving moment, and whether or not one cares to think
about the "spirits" in a jet engine, I will never hear them the same
again.
Last night around 3AM I was recording the crickets behind my house,
though we are less than a mile from highway 101 (over a hill) and under
the landing paths for SFO and OAK, just to document it before they
finish the apartments across the way and it gets even noisier. While it
totally spoiled the cricket and bird sounds, the cars and planes did
have a kind of beauty of their own sound...
Okay, sorry , back to our creatures and mic hiss...
Lou
Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
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