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12 Minute Travelogues - 05
Sep. 2nd, 2008 12:57 pm12 Minute Travelogues number five is ready for download. If you've subscribed to the feed (see below for information), it should show up sometime today, depending on how your podcast software is configured.
Since I went out on a limb last episode, I figured I'd climb way out on that limb this time and experiment even more. If the last podcast doesn't quite push me out of "new age" territory, this one probably certainly will, even if it's full of sound that I personally find luxuriously restful. There's a problem with music these days, largely because everyone listens in their cars or on crappy TV speakers or the junky earphones you get with mp3 players, and it's that engineers have all decided that dynamic range is evil. Seriously—evil. So they flatten it all out, narrowing the ridges and valleys between silence and outbursts, and we're getting used to this sad state of affairs, where nothing is ever loud enough to dwarf the almost silent moments in a song, and where there are no peaks or quiet pools. I think it's all particularly repellent, and this piece reflects my distaste for flat music, I think.
It is just like that, up where I recorded no. 5.
Listen to this with enough volume that the opening strains of quiet insect-played background are clear and peaceful, and let it be loud when it gets loud. Life's like that, by which I mean the real one, the one we hardly know anymore. I made the field recordings used in this piece on the weekends of 8/23 and 8/30, recorded the musical tonalities with my laptop sitting on the woodstove (cold, of course) in my little cabin in West Virginia, and edited the piece at the same time. There's a way time disappears up there, just fades into the mountainside until there is only nature and passing freight trains and the river and the occasional ATV and cicacas singing the way they do in the fading summertime. This is where I am when the time goes, and what I hear in my head.
There is room for all sorts of sound in these places.
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Since I went out on a limb last episode, I figured I'd climb way out on that limb this time and experiment even more. If the last podcast doesn't quite push me out of "new age" territory, this one probably certainly will, even if it's full of sound that I personally find luxuriously restful. There's a problem with music these days, largely because everyone listens in their cars or on crappy TV speakers or the junky earphones you get with mp3 players, and it's that engineers have all decided that dynamic range is evil. Seriously—evil. So they flatten it all out, narrowing the ridges and valleys between silence and outbursts, and we're getting used to this sad state of affairs, where nothing is ever loud enough to dwarf the almost silent moments in a song, and where there are no peaks or quiet pools. I think it's all particularly repellent, and this piece reflects my distaste for flat music, I think.
It is just like that, up where I recorded no. 5.
Listen to this with enough volume that the opening strains of quiet insect-played background are clear and peaceful, and let it be loud when it gets loud. Life's like that, by which I mean the real one, the one we hardly know anymore. I made the field recordings used in this piece on the weekends of 8/23 and 8/30, recorded the musical tonalities with my laptop sitting on the woodstove (cold, of course) in my little cabin in West Virginia, and edited the piece at the same time. There's a way time disappears up there, just fades into the mountainside until there is only nature and passing freight trains and the river and the occasional ATV and cicacas singing the way they do in the fading summertime. This is where I am when the time goes, and what I hear in my head.
There is room for all sorts of sound in these places.
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