I sometimes wonder if the reason I record is to give me a reason to listen.
I know I shouldn't need a reason but, for example, today I recorded the
quiet interior of a rural English church.
As I let the recording progress inside, I sat outside and simply listened.
I heard the blackbird's evening chorus. I heard redwings and fieldfare
overhead, fresh in from the east. I heard the distant rumble of main road
linking Exeter to Plymouth. I heard dogs bark and footsteps. Cows, crows
and jays. I listened as the breeze picked up and moved slender baldes of
grass between gravestones. And the rustle of leaves and the rain on my
jacket. And dusk spread.
It almost doesn't matter what I recorded (30 mins of near silence) ... it
was a good recording for me.
Tony
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Bernie Krause <>wrote:
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>
> Hear! Hear!, Klas. Great observation.
>
> Bernie
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Klas Strandberg wrote:
>
> > Dan, Bernie and all
> >
> > For 40 years I have been promoting the use of parabols, well aware of
> > that parabols twist "reality" and create illusions. I have been
> > fighting a war against "purists", telling me what a terrible person
> > I was.
> > But "we" won that war, Dan, Bernie and all. And myself. It ended 20
> > years ago.
> > Today I hear no voices at all, not anywhere, being "purist" about
> > flat frequency curves or non-editing or anything like it.
> > "Every recording is an illusion".
> > Yeah? Who claims differently nowadays? Where is this massive global
> > commercial sound production industry, aiming for "purity" and
> > forbidding us poor nature sound recordists to switch a filter "on"?
> > I don't see the threat.
> >
> > I do see, however, a need for "quality" discussions.
> > I like words like "sonels" and "splashing," because such words give
> > us ways to describe the quality of a recording. I would like a long
> > list of such new words together with sound examples.
> >
> > Why is that considered so wrong?
> >
> > Klas.
> >
> >
> > At 16:59 2012-11-03, you wrote:
> >>> If all the above sounds like "manipulation", that started with the
> >>> choice, placement and aiming of mics, recording level, and decinding
> >>> when to push the record button.
> >>
> >> Ansel Adams made a lot of adjustments in his negatives when he
> >> printed them.
> >>
> >>> I've got weeks of rubbish recordings, but the ones that go out are
> >>> those which, to my mind, represent the wildlife in this area. It is
> >>> the end result which matters.
> >>
> >> It's an art of illusion.
> >>
> >>> BTW I've just put a stereo file on Soundcloud asking what is wrong
> >>> with it:
> >>> http://soundcloud.com/stowford/wren-and-stream-stereo-check
> >>
> >> Out of phase?
> >>
> >> -Dan
> >>
> >>
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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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> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "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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