For me there are at times a transcendent element when either by treatment o=
r developing contextual intention whereby a recordist through the act of mi=
xing removes ego and lifts the listener to that. Bernie and a few others on=
this list have touched it and I believe the more you work with sound for t=
he sake of the listener, getting past the tiny pettiness of our speck of du=
st and transmitting the sweetness of listening becomes more accessible. =
Regards, Mark
On May 29, 2012, at 6:09 AM, Bernie Krause <> wrote:
> Yup. There's not a professional recordist that I know who would
> disagree with that, David. Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now sound editor
> and Academy Award winner) expresses that much more eloquently than I
> do in my new book, The Great Animal Orchestra, which deals with all of =
> these issues.
>
> Bernie
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> On May 28, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Avocet wrote:
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>>> So, it follows logically, aesthetically, emotionally,
>>> historically, philosophically, technically etc., etc., that there=A1=AF=
s
>>> no such animal as an unadulterated recorded sound.
>>
>> Bernie,
>>
>> Agreed. Perhaps I may go one step further and say there is no such
>> thing as a recorded sound. What we hear is an illusion, especially
>> with stereo, and our brains re-interpret it as they do with any work
>> of art. A portrait is not a person. There are no birds in my living
>> room (except for the occasional jackdaw), but my cats get the illusion
>> as well, but quickly lose interest when they see nothing flying there.
>>
>> I hail from the era of the gramophone when we listened to a wiggly
>> groove. I'm afraid that I tend to describe some "manufactured" music
>> as tuned noise when it lacks artistic content. :-)
>>
>> David
>>
>> David Brinicombe
>> North Devon, UK
>> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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>> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
>> Krause.
>>
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