This is really lovely, Martyn. Murray Schafer, the father of the term,
soundscape, once did a 30 minute piece for German radio (WDR) he
called "Winter," in which he began with total silence (albeit not as
dead quiet as what you've posted). After about 5 minutes, when the ear
is totally cleansed of any sound, you hear him trudging from the
infinity of silence through the snow toward and past the microphones
back into infinity, again. Likewise, later in the piece, a distant
train invades the space and fades off into the void. That gives new
meaning to the John Cage observation that the most important sound in
music is silence.
Bernie
On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
> http://naturesound.org/this_weeks_recordings/Entries/2009/10/11_Nothing_i=
s_beautiful.html
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> This is a strange one (for most folks other than here) Recorded on
> Sunrise (Mount Rainier NP. WA)
> This is basically =93Nothing=94 but in my world, nothing is beautiful!
> There are not many places on this planet that you can set up your
> microphones and not hear people! The other reason I'm posting this is
> because it is a great test for the recorder and the microphones. There
> is no =93Hiss=94 from either the microphones or the recorder. At the
> beginning of the recording I have placed a 35 decibel tone and set the
> record volume to 58.9 db. What is amazing is that all previous
> recordings on my website are basically the same settings.
> In quiet environments you need to know that what you hear is what you
> get.
> The time was 10:45 p.m.. The temperature: 39f. The skies were clear.
> Humidity was 48%.
> Microphones used: MKH-40/30 MS combination.
> Recorder SD 722.
> Sample rate: 44.1K 24 bit.
> Recordist: Martyn Stewart
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