--- In Gianni Pavan <> wrote:
>
> Dear George,
> I'd really love to see on the net a webspace dedicated at
> collecting well documented nature recordings and any other sound
> recording able to document acoustic events related to human history
> and cultures (I mean examples of all languages of the world, sound
> cuts of musical instruments, of machines too... e.g. old typewriters
> or trains or a morse code or the noise made by traditional works....).
> I think the best would be to have both compressed cuts for fast
> access and browsing and longer uncompressed files for those really
> interested in top quality sounds to be used for fun or for teaching.
> >
Dear Gianni:
Thanks for the response!
I completely agree about compressed and uncompressed options. My thought e=
xactly.
The uncompressed takes more space, but what the heck?, space is cheap these=
days and
getting cheaper. However, this will be a low in number, highest of high qu=
ality project
exhibiting the best sounds ever recorded, so volume should not be problem, =
at least
initially.
I also agree about recording data. Great idea.
I suggest that to get started -- someone just start nominating excellent re=
cordings: They
need to be identified first, and someone probably will have a great time au=
ditioning them.
This will take some time and a collection would build slowly. This would s=
eem to be "fun,"
which more than anything, is the name of the game for me.
I have in mind certain criteria for Candidate Recordings:
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