Inspired by Aaron Ximm's One-Minute Vacations (www.quietamerican.org), I
have been playing around with creating "audio postcards" for friends and
family. There are a lot of distinctive Stevens household noises:
grandfather clock, my horse whinnying for her breakfast, the chickens,
the ducks, the hum of my spinning wheel, sheep belching in happiness as
I scratch their backs... It's easy to slip my Hi-MD into my pocket,
tuck the binaural mics behind my ears, and narrate a little tour around
the garden for my grandmother. It comes alive more than when I describe
it in my letters. It's a nice complement to the "serious" nature
recording I do, and I'm awful about taking and sending pictures.
Speaking of noise, I'd better get to bed. Seven roosters outside my
bedroom window, and when they are done sleeping, I'M done sleeping.
Alexia Stevens
Woodinville, Washington, USA
Steve Duncan wrote:
>
> Hi - I just discovered this group, and I've been having a blast
> reading through the archives.
> I've always been fascinated with sound gear, and fiddled with making
> recordings from time to
> time although I'd never really invested in decent equipment.
>
> After I discovered my old voice recorder wouldn't talk to my Mac, I
> ordered an Olympus LS-
> 10, which should be arriving today. I decided on the LS-10 because I'd
> recorded what I guess
> I'll call "family ambience" a few times with my old recorder, and
> thought it would be even
> more fun now that our kids are starting to talk more. I'd once tried
> to make a custom
> ringtone for my wife of our oldest daughter's first giggles, but
> between noise and low signal
> levels it just didn't work.
>
> I suppose this is stretching the definition of nature recording, but
> is anyone else doing this
> kind of stuff?
>
> Steve in Milwaukee
>
>
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