For a considerable period in the early 90s, when Feld was doing some
specatular work with the Kaluli in N. Guinea, he was supported by and
a fave-rave-of-the-moment of Mickey Hart (the percussionist of
Grateful Dead fame) who had a fair bit to do with how things were
produced for Feld's early releases on Rykodisk. That may explain the
impression of "manipulation" learned at the time. Certainly sounded
like that to me when I heard it.
Bernie Krause
>--- In "Danny Meltzer"
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>> 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.
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>> Danny
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>thanks for the recommendation. this sounds like a disc worth owning.
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>by chance I put on a nature disk the other day that a friend owned.
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>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! :-)
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>clay
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>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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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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