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Re: technology choices for gathering ambient nature

Subject: Re: technology choices for gathering ambient nature
From: "Rob Danielson"
Date: Thu May 18, 2006 11:34am(PDT)
At 11:04 PM +0800 5/18/06, Graham Evans wrote:
>
>An alternate solution would be networking a windows computer to my linux
>box but that is something that is going to send me really grey.  I'm not
>profficient at networking.  And then again I could return to windows cap
>in hand.  But I just can't come at that.  Life is too short and I have
>actually begun to enjoy using computers again since 'the switch'

Me too. I bought a used $100 PC laptop with
windows 98E and 128 ram. I just think of it as a
"audio transfer machine" so I can keep my other
computing world(s) in order.

You could go with regular MD but the
quality/functionality is considerably lower.


>.  (Not
>to evangelise - that's just how it is.)
>
>Interesting that idea:
>>   Have fun getting people turned onto sound. Rob D.
>
>You have me thinking about the aesthetics of this exercise now - which
>are a little confusing: Why would you want to visit a beautiful natural
>soundscape and then put on headphones and listen to an audio tour?

Sorry if I was too cryptic.  I'm taking about
getting quality ideas in the interviews. Chances
are quiet low, in a 30 minute, hand held-mic
interview with the artists, that they'll have
much to say that is not obvious about the
relations their art work has to this sound scape.
If you put a HiMD recorder in his/her pocket, a
lavaliere on their collar and let it record for 7
hours as they work in the space- it will
encourage them to listen and think about it. If
the ambient recorder is running  at the same
time, you've got a great recording of what they
are referring to.  No audio tour in my thoughts.
You've really got two very, very different types
of recording in this project. There are better
options than spending $1000USD or even $800USD on
one deck. Rob D


>
>I'll keep working on that - and equipment choices.
>
>thanks Rob
>
>Graham E.
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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--
Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/




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