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Date: 08 December 2004 18:39:11
...this week has been sitting in the middle of some woods (between Calne and Chippenham...sort of) doing some ambient soundscape recording (Def: Everything you cannot get on a postcard!) to integrate into musical works. A couple of weeks back I picked up an ebay bargain (*crazy* cheap bargain...wahoo!) of a Sony C-74 short shotgun mic (no, you don't need a firearms license!) complete with windshields, grips, etc, which is the sort of mic which is used on tv and film productions, you've probably seen one on the end of a pole over someones head on Question Time, or if you're really sad Kilroy/Trisha/Jerry Springer, etc. It's great 'cos you can have your headphones on in the middle of nowhere and you can *clearly* hear a birds wings flapping 100 yards away. Opens up a whole new world of sound. Sometimes photographers write about how making photos helps them to see the world in a different way. Well, listening to the world through a mic helps you to hear the world in different way. You quickly learn, as John Cage writes, that here is no such thing as silence, even remote woods are noisy places. Cities are positively deafening.
Will keep you informed of progress.
And added Touch Records to the wiblinks. Go visit and have some aural adventure with them.