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Re: interview with Steven Feld

Subject: Re: interview with Steven Feld
From: "cfmspencer" cfmspencer
Date: Sun Sep 10, 2006 7:29 am (PDT)
--- 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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