--- In "Danny Meltzer"
<> wrote:
>
> I have Feld's "Rainforest Soundwalks: Ambiences of Bosavi, Papua
New
> Guinea" disc...it is amazing. You can tell someone is really
thinking
> and feeling about what he is presenting. It's one of those discs
> that...no matter how good my speakers happen to be at the
time...makes
> me wish I had better speakers.
>
> Danny
>
thanks for the recommendation. this sounds like a disc worth owning.
by chance I put on a nature disk the other day that a friend owned.
it sounded pretty good, although a bit over produced (in a hyper-
real manner), but then it came to the obligatory rainstorm track,
and I was left wondering just how close the microphones must have
been to the flames to be able to capture the fire in such a
realistic fashion! :-)
clay
ps, hyper-real is perhaps not a word that conveys precisely my
intent. is there a more typical word to refer to recordings where it
seems as if the sound was manipulated to make it sound better than
real, but does not?
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