Re: [microsound] stolen silence

[Beni Borja <beni.borja@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So, the silence stolen was not really silence , but noise floor.

Which leads me to my main interest in microsound these days. I''m a lowly
pop producer/composer , trying to make a living selling my musical artifacts
to a growingly idiotic music-buyng public.
 I have always been interested in digital sound  (bought my first multitrack
digital recorder an ADAT in 92/93) and although the price tag fascinated me,
I still  missed something from the old analog two-inch tapes.
That was until  five years ago, when  I did my first recording for on
Pro-Tools 24 bit.  From then on to me it was obvious that those who
complained about digital audio reproduction were merely missing the noise
floor on the analog formats.

The developing of  music recording  on digital format  has showed ( as
low-fi did) the need ,of  what I would call, noise-coloring for a
transparent medium like digital 24 bits. Ten years of  large-scale use of
digital multitracks, made it  pretty clear to most producers that
noise-floor creation is an integral part of  an interesting musical
soundscape.
Most people do that by including valve pre-amps, and other noise-making
eletronics on the soundchain , or by using samples of noisy sources on their
music, I myself have lately worked on  my own noises.. I guess in the
abssence of real work to do..

In a more philosophical note all this relates to an article I read once by
Roland Barthes ( was it realy him?) on how we percieve bad video images as
more real than high-quality film...

Beni





----- Original Message -----
From: "daobra daloosh" <daobra@xxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] stolen silence


> thank you for that good suggestion.
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> > daobra daloosh wrote:
> > >
> > > So inside newer phones (e.g. mobile phones) there is a
> > > > noise generator that gives you the idea that the oder is in silence:
> > >
> > > interesting,
> > > I wouldn't mind having one of those 'silent noise generators'..
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > If I'm not wrong, it's just a white noise generator (you might want to
> > filter it with a band-pass telephone filter to have that "atmosphere").
> >
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