Isn't that wonderful, Tony?
And, may I add, with the same headphones being able to hear it again,
years later? And for others to share?
Thanks Bernie.
I needed that. (Even if it can be one of those wonderful American
ironies which I never will understand, before it's too late...:-))
Klas.
-04, you wrote:
>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:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ------------------------------------
> > >>
> > >> "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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>
>"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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