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3. Re: Simultaneous recording with two digital recorders?

Subject: 3. Re: Simultaneous recording with two digital recorders?
From: "hebertblaine" hebertblaine
Date: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:46 am ((PDT))
"We are trying to hear the landscape the same way we see it - separating it=
 into discreet objects and recombining. But listening is not seeing. Expans=
ive listening gives us holistic information about what is around us, and ou=
r relationship to it."

I disagree.  Unless we purposefully listen to the cacophony of the whole wh=
at we normally do is listen to the individual sources in a soundscape, pick=
ing them out and perhaps studying their interrelationships with other sound=
s.  That we would process sounds much like we process sights or even scent =
or other senses might be more logical.

B. Hebert


--- In  Andrew Skeoch <> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I feel this thread touches upon a really important issue. In deciding app=
ropriate technological approaches, we need to first be clear about why we'r=
e listening.
>
> It occurs to me that using multiple mic sources is actually an attempt to=
 synthesize a soundscape that accords more to our visual sense than our aud=
itory one. We are trying to hear the landscape the same way we see it - sep=
arating it into discreet objects and recombining. But listening is not seei=
ng. Expansive listening gives us holistic information about what is around =
us, and our relationship to it. And this is referenced upon the human-scale=
 listening experience of two ears hanging in the breeze.
>
> For me; I want to reawaken my listening from its post-industrial torpor, =
and enrich my relationship with the world around me. I utilise audio techno=
logy, taking that human-scale listening as my reference point.
>
> I could imagine an artistic agenda in exploring 'alternate sensory viewpo=
ints' though mixing multiple sources, but I can't help feeling that there i=
s nothing culturally radical in this, just an extension of our human fascin=
ation with how much we can abstract and manipulate nature. Legerdemain. How=
 far can we go?
>
> Personally, I'm with you on this one Geoff :)  Single point stereo; simpl=
e technology, coherent information, fieldcraft, personal presence in the la=
ndscape, deep listening (not to mention less time farting around in the stu=
dio afterwards!).
>
> To me, the important issue is not what I can DO with audio technology, bu=
t how it can help me BE in the world.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
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