Thanks for sharing your experience, Bernie and Curt. It seems to me
life is surprising and perplexing and amazing enough without having
to resort to fakery and deception.
John Crockett
Let us live in harmony with Earth
And all creatures
That our lives may be a blessing
On Jul 15, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Bernie Krause
[naturerecordists] wrote:
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> About 15 years ago, when I still had the Audio Forensic Center, I
> was more or less gainfully employed doing audio tape analysis, gun
> shots recording work, and voice print analysis for the Federal and
> State court systems as an expert witness, I got a request from a
> group living in N. California called, I think, the Big Foot
> Project. They hired me to do an analysis on hours of tape they
> claimed they=92d recorded of the great beastie=92s dulcet voice. And
> they offered a shit-load of money to have the analysis done, even
> though I cautioned them that most likely, we=92d get no result.
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> At no small expense, because they we so persistent, I did the work.
> Turned out that they had created a terrible, over-dubbed tape with
> 3 or 4 layers of signal, some recorded in the outside at dawn that
> they claimed was recorded at around midnight, overdubbed with
> someone repeatedly saying something like, =93Come here, big boy.=94 No =
> kidding, stuff like that. And in the background, obvious human
> grunts closely mic=92d, they claimed was the great vision, himself.
> With each successive layer of recording, you could detect traces of
> different 60Hz tracks introduced (typical of most tape recordings
> of the era), also various levels of tape hiss with each pass.
> Remember, this was submitted to me as proof of their encounter with
> Big Foot. The tape was so bad, that at some point, after finding
> clear evidence of over 200 edits/overdubs, I was embarrassed and
> just handed them back their box of tapes, most of their money, and
> only billed for about 10% of my time. To say this was all faked, is
> a bit of an understatement.
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> If folks need to believe in this kind of horsy manure in order to
> fill their lives with some kind of meaning or drama, then so be it.
> Please, however, just don=92t lay this kind of crap on others.
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> For what it=92s worth,
> Bernie Krause
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> On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Curt Olson
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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>> I got dragged down this road a couple years ago in a brief e-mail
>> exchange with a Sasquatch hunter who claimed he heard one on my
>> website. Nope... what he heard was a winnowing snipe.
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>> He pointed me to a track on SoundCloud that purported to be a
>> Sasquatch vocalization captured in Minnesota north of Duluth. Nope
>> again... it was nothing more than a very poor job of audio fakery.
>>
>> Curt Olson
>> MinneasotaSoundscapes.com
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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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