Re: New Soundscapes/Field Recordings

["Louie" jessloui]

Hi John,

Perhaps it was unclear and I don't mean to derail the thread but I was
replying to Jos=E9 who brought up the Kantian notion of the sublime. What I
meant was that the sublime is quite a strange idea to mention in the
context of a nature recordists group as Kant believed that in order for
humans to fully appreciate the sublime (all examples of which are typically
natural; seeing and hearing the ocean for instance), we have to filter what
he understood as nature's terrifying elements (the 'wild, crude and
repulsive') and re-present them in a form we could appreciate as beautiful.
I'm not sure if that is how people here see their role as recordists...

Also, I was mixing up this thread with the other one (new soundscapes and
realism), my mistake.

Louie.