Thi Greg,
Thanks for sharing your recording as an example for this "terms of
artistic reference" thread.
> Some might call this a 'composed recording', but if I had four
> recording tracks and two MS pairs, I could've recorded the frogs and
> waterfall simultaneously and done similar processing to achieve the
> same or similar result. Would it still be composed, or simply a multi-
> miked recording? And what if I had mixed and recorded all four mics
> direct to stereo?
All intentional recordings are "compositions" of the artist. I'm not
sure what the best term would be for a blend of distinctly separate
recordings - How about "audio collage"? I usually just use, "a blend
of...".
I would say your recording is a blend (or collage)of two separate
events since the two recordings are not synced temporally.
I think the term "multi-miced" assumes a temporal correlation. In
descriptions of my own recordings, I sometimes include "live
recording" or "recorded live" to further clarify.
John Hartog
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