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Re: Recording Wind

Subject: Re: Recording Wind
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:32 pm ((PDT))
If the sound actually evokes leaves in the wind, that's the hardest
and best one can do.

Bernie


On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Colver wrote:

> I've got a recording of the the wind cranking an old ranch windmill
> in Texas.
>
> But my favorite:  I like the breeze shimmering aspen leaves.
>
> Kevin Colver
>
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>
>> Yes. Try to find a barbed wire fence =96 preferably an older one where
>> the wires whistle =96 mount a stereo
>> pair of lavs (ECM55Bs, for instance) in the grasses below the wire
>> that whistles and you'll get the effect of wonderfully
>> pitched wind. There's also wind in the grasses. Wind across the
>> dunes. Wind thru the leaves in trees. Pitched wind in small snags of
>> wood as it curls around the corner of houses in the open. Pitched
>> wind blowing through a partially open window. Each type of effect is
>> different and evokes a
>> special image if they're done right.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Michael Raphael wrote:
>>
>>> Any recommendations on recording wind?
>>>
>>> I am near some deserts in southern california for a few months and I
>>> would like to try and do this soon.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Wild Sanctuary
>> POB 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-996-6677
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>> 
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>>
>> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
>> Krause
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>>
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>
> ------------------------------------
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

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