<< John Hartog said:
>Walt you say:
> After all people are just another species of animal, so are a
subject for "nature recording".
>I say: That is really messed up, I hope you are not serious.
>Honestly, what I enjoy recording, editing, and listening to the
most are the natural soundscapes without people or manmade noise. So
lets keep them coming.>>
John, where do you draw the line between natural & non-natural? Among
my favorite field recordings are a series of tapes of a flock of
sheep I recorded in an alpine meadow east of Cedar Breaks in southern
Utah. Wonderful stuff, & except for one passby of a pickup truck,
without human sonic imprint. Except for the fact that the sheep were
bred, raised, corralled, & transported to the meadow by humans
specifically for human consumption. So are these sheep calling back &
forth to their kids natural or not, inasmuch as their very existence
is a result of human activity? Does the question even matter? And do
I even bring up a recording I made in Bavaria of a flock of goats
with bells around their necks? All the sonic activity is generated by
the goats, but humans have fitted them with bells. So is this a
nature recording?
Scott Fraser
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