Thanks Bernie .. I have the BBC podcasts of the Davic Hendy programmes, but
have yet to listen to them - will nudge up the listening list. I also
notice the whole series is available for download here at a vey reasonable
price
http://www.audiogo.com/uk/noise-a-human-history-the-complete-series-matt-thompson-gid-1029895/
Chris Watson - yes, I met Chris a couple of years ago while helping with
some BBC filming on the Exe estuary. He was using hydrophones to try and
record the movement of invertebrates in the estuary mud. I also remember
that we found a singing lesser whitethroat, a not too common bird in this
part of the world.
cheers
Tony
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Bernie Krause <>wrote:
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> A new book, called "Noise," by David Hendy, a UK media historian from the
> Univ. of Sussex, has just been released on HarperCollins in the US (and
> Profile in the UK). This beautifully written book is a wonderful,
> accessible, and insightful piece covering pretty much all aspects of noise
> phenomena that exist in Western culture, in particular, but others, as
> well. Hendy's BBC Radio series is also to be broadcast this Fall. I've read
> it twice, now, and find more and more relevance to my soundscape work with
> each read-through.
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> Check it out.
>
> Bernie
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> On Oct 19, 2013, at 11:52 AM, <> wrote:
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> It is refreshing to have someone write on noise and actually DEFINE what
> they mean by the term... something rarely done in my experience. I have
> found over 20 definitions of noise even in the acoustic domain. R. Murray
> Shafer's formulation relates to the foreshortening of dynamic range, which
> is distinct from noise as rapid change, dromological sound, non-repetitive
> sound, inharmonic sound, excessive volume, sudden impulse, physical
> disruption, psychological trauma, transmission loss, anthrophony, and so on.
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> -- Robin Parmar, who hates the new Yahoo groups web format
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> To my ears, in general, soundscapes in which individual sounds can be
> heard clearly are more attractive than their opposite. It's what I
> understand from Murray Shafers talk of hi-fi and lo-fi sonic environments.
> The only qualification perhaps is that some natural (however you wish to
> define that) soundscapes could be thought of as lo-fi. A river in spate. Or
> rain. But then, on paying attention, I find beautiful variations within the
> grain of falling rain, its different intensities.
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