John Cage once observed that the most important element in music was
periods of silence.
Bernie
On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Lou Judson wrote:
> No argument with anything you say, Rob, except for this - Any music
> or talk that I have ever recorded has some soft parts and silence in
> it, even if only at top and tail, so for me every recording has soft
> sounds and nearly always in quiet settings... Nature or not!
>
> Or maybe I am just one of the obsessives. I accept the term
> "exceptional" as well, humbly so.
>
> <L>
>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Rob Danielson wrote:
>
> In the realm of audio production, recording soft sounds in quiet
> settings is a rare, some would suggest, crazy objective. There happen
> to be some obsessives on this list, but the practices need to be
> understood as exceptional.
>
>
>
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