Greetings Jaap,
I share your love of the quiet. It seems that those living in city or
crowded conditions are more nature-starved and relish these
experiences. Then there are some that live in quiet back country that
seem to love to make some big noise with a loud vehicle or boom box.=20
Oh well.
When I record I find it ideal to find a place where I am the only human
I can see in any direction. We still have places like that but they
are precious. Even these places are often overflown by aircraft.
Out in such a place in the quiet of fall or winter I notice my ears
coming alive to every rustle of a leaf or snap of a twig. I almost
think I could hear a quiet cougar or a foraging rabbit. Perhaps this
constant audio surveillance is what our ears and brains are designed
for; hunting and predator detection. Lacking the appropriate audio
information, our brains seek a substitute by constant playing of the
radio or TV. Our ears, and that portion of the brain which evaluates
what we hear, become numb.
If you come to Utah I can get you out to some quiet places!
Kevin Colver
On Tuesday, January 24, 2006, at 02:15 PM, Jaap de Jong wrote:
> Dear Naturerecordists,
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> I am new to this nice group so here is some information on me.
> Recently I discovered a personal longing for silence. Since I live in
> downtown Amsterdam, NL, and despite of having a nice home, neighbors
> are way too noisy. As my occupation has a lot to do with music,
> recording and audio in general, I learned to like silence as well.
> However here in The Netherlands even the word 'silence' is almost
> absent. Therefore I would love to emigrate to some place quiet, where
> I can repose and listen to tranguil nature sound. You can imagine that
> silence to my belief could be anything except heavy traffic, barking
> dogs, neighbours banging their heads to test the walls, or even
> digital zero.
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> Some of my favorite nature-sounds include (among others) wind through
> pine-trees, thunder and songbirds. Other -more or less- human sounds
> which I very much like to listen to are windchimes and the rougher
> wind buffeting 'stays' (metal lines on aluminum masts of sailboats in
> marinas). I would like to record these sounds by myself. Respect to
> Gordon Hempton for he knows how to do top-recording and how to get
> away from our present disturbing-noise-world. In the near future I
> want to buy a fire-wire interface to do laptop (music)recording,
> although it might be too heavy for extended (naturesound-) recording
> in the field (not to mention the battery-power). Has anyone here
> experience with high-end ultra portable recording gear in conjunction
> with e.g. the Neumann dummyheads? Or can anyone provide me with some
> of the sounds I described? I would love to hear from you guys (and
> girls?)
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> Greetings! Jaap de Jong (male, 29) Amsterdam.
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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