Cage did have a huge role in teaching the values of "high record
levels," didn't he? ;-)
Yes, Lou and any performance that concerns itself, directly, with
acoustic space is a special, rarity too. Rob D.
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At 8:37 AM -0800 1/5/09, Bernie Krause wrote:
>John Cage once observed that the most important element in music was
>periods of silence.
>
>Bernie
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>On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Lou Judson wrote:
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>> 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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