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Re: query re your experience with Melodyne

Subject: Re: query re your experience with Melodyne
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Wed Mar 1, 2017 8:00 am ((PST))
Not sure if you can actually do that, Matt. I just got the software and hav=
e spent very little time with it. Technically, it might be possible and the=
re are many YouTube videos that could probably answer that question. Dan Du=
gan may know the answer to that, also.

Yes, I am familiar with Gunn=92s excellent collection. Depending on the qua=
lity of the recording, one of the apps you might try is Adobe Audition (spe=
ctrogram mode). I=92ve been able to abstract individual signals (birds, amp=
hibians, insects, mammals) out of the biophony, often with pretty remarkabl=
e results, reassembling them in a quasi-stereo format, while, at the same t=
ime maintaining continuity and context.
Takes a lot of work, to be sure. But the result can be pretty convincing.

Also, I have quite a bit of material from Algonquin Park=85especially a rec=
ent recording of two packs of wolves converging on where I was recording on=
e spring morning a few years ago. I first got to Algonquin Park in 1953 and=
 paddled with 11 others from the Brent/Lavier Circuit in the north, all the=
 way to James Bay from late July to late August.=85about 300 miles. Except =
for those in our group, we never saw another human, a road, a car, a plane,=
 in 30 days. The waters were so clear that you could see fish 20 or so feet=
 below the surface of the water.

Bernie




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> On Mar 1, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Matt Rogalsky  [naturereco=
rdists] <> wrote:
>
> Dear Bernie Krause
>
> I wondered if you could comment on the potential for Melodyne to allow ex=
traction of different distinct sound elements within a mono environmental r=
ecording.
>
> I am considering tackling a project that would be a surround mix from a m=
onophonic album released in the 1950s. Perhaps you would know it: =93A Day =
In Algonquin Park,=94 released in 1955 by William WH Gunn, the Canadian eco=
logist and field recordist.
>
> By the way, if you know about Gunn and his =92Sounds of Nature=92 LP seri=
es, I would be interested to learn your opinion of his work! My partner Lau=
ra J Cameron and I have a paper coming out in the journal =91Organised Soun=
d=92 that argues his position should be better known as part of the (pre-)h=
istory of soundscape composition.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Matt Rogalsky
>
>
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> Posted by: Matt Rogalsky <>
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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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