I don't understand part of this article:
"I put on the headphones and was suddenly engulfed in birdsong-so much so t=
hat for a moment I took them off to look around. Where were all these birds=
?"
"What you're hearing through the headphones is the world the way our ancest=
ors heard it, before mechanical sounds dominated everything," Krause explai=
ned. "The microphone pulls in the biophony, so it seems that you're in your=
own private music hall."
This sounds like it's being suggested that our ancestors could hear thing w=
e can't hear because of mechanical noise, yet in this situation there shoul=
d have been none. I would have thought all that was happening was that it w=
as amplified by the recorder, and that the listener was simply too far away=
to hear them unaided. Or is this simply an illustration of the sounds that=
are out there to be heard, if we get close enough?
I've only recently started making recordings, and even more recently ambien=
t recordings, so I've only just realised how hard it is to get away from no=
ise. My pet hate is "frivolous" noise - the sound of small aircraft carryin=
g joyriders, trailbikers tearing up a mountainside, etc. Unlike the sound o=
f a factory, I get no benefit from the process making the noise, and in my =
opinion they don't get a lot either, and the sound is continuous and carrie=
s for huge distances.
Peter Shute
From: =
.com] On Behalf Of Dan Dugan
Sent: Monday, 9 January 2012 7:00 AM
To: ; Nature Sounds Society
Subject: [Nature Recordists] great article about quiet places by Virgina Mo=
rell
Here's a great article about quiet places:
http://www.cntraveler.com/features/2012/01/The-Sound-of-Silence
Morell interviewed Bernie Kraus, Robert Dooling, Kurt Fristrup, Hans Slabbe=
koorn, Arthur Popper, Martyn Stewart, and Gordon Hempton.
-Dan
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