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Re: New Soundscapes & realism

Subject: Re: New Soundscapes & realism
From: "hartogj" hartogj
Date: Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:02 pm ((PST))
Hi Peter,
You wrote: "Perhaps one only needs to post clear warnings to make such 
recordings totally acceptable here, and then people can decide whether they 
want to listen to them or not."

Yes, thank you, that is exactly my point!  

Especially for longer track or album releases that are marketed here. Some 
customers will review only a few minutes before deciding it is something they 
might enjoy listening to in a specific setting -  relaxing, healing, working, 
exercising, whatever. Some customers will listen on little laptop speakers the 
first time, purchase the album expecting only nature sounds, and find 
themselves disappointed to by a drone of motor noise when played in a more 
quiet setting or on better speakers.  

As Vicky points out, for things like species ID recordings non-natural 
background sounds are normal and expected. 

There are plenty of other examples where a nature recording could include 
non-natural sound, for instance wildlife recordings from an urban setting where 
the natural sounds are the subject of the recording. A problem arises not from 
the anthropogenic content in nature recording, but rather from the context in 
which that recording is presented.

John Hartog
rockscallop.org





 



















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