RE: [microsound] overmod/distortion and new facets

[Matthew Allen <matthew@xxxxxxxx>]

	Actually I mangle my sound beyond comprehension, but I want to hear
what the original was intended to sound like. I'm not going to be using it,
but I need to get the over all feeling from it so I can create a piece
that's reflective of it. Not having a good original copy is a bad place to
start in my opinion. Even if I was going to use the piece as sound material
I would still want it 'unmolested'. This is so anything I do with it is
mine, not influenced by someone else's aesthetic.

	Unless of course the project calls for that.

m.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:17 AM
> To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [microsound] overmod/distortion and new facets
> 
> > Am I the only one who thinks that it's ok to have a little distortion?
> 
> No.  I'm with you.  I think a lot of people have a narrow perception of
> how something can be sampled.  It's ok to do really crazy things like
> record the sound of a vaccum cleaner with 2 wires and wet tissue paper but
> it's not ok to rip a clipped soundtrak. I'm poor (as much as an american
> can be) and have alwys pushhed the little equipment I have to it's limits
> in order to create the widest range of sound possible.  There's more than
> one way to skin a bicycle.  Just 'cuz it's not in the instruction manual
> doesnt mean it's not valid.

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