Re: [microsound] Unintentional sound

[andrew benson <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think maybe the word unintentional is an improper
choice in this context.  He seems to be intentionally
recording a sound that is a sonic feature of a given
location.  Granted, he is not staging the sound, or
manipulating the drain, etc.  But to call any sound
that is recorded with such care and precision
unintentional is misleading.  Perhaps a word like
"field recording" or "non-instrumental" or
"incidental" might be more appropriate.

just my two cents,
andrew
--- "David @ Audiobulb" <dwnewman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> it should be a sound that is made but is not
> intended
> 
> 'intended' implies a subjective decision that no
> sound should be emitted by 
> design
> 
> so an unintended sound would be a sound that has
> leaked out due to a 
> fault/oversight of a designed system or system which
> retained in  a state of 
> control by a 'thinking' entity....
> 
> the one that springs to mind is an audible fart in a
> public place causing 
> embarrassment/shame to the originator
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "andrew benson" <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 9:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Unintentional sound
> 
> 
> > Sounds pretty intentional to me.  Am I missing
> > something?
> >
> > andrew
> > --- Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Earlier this month I wrote:
> >>
> >> > A logical conclusion from the premise of
> >> phonography ("unintentional
> >> > sound is worth listening to") is that the goal
> is
> >> not so much to share
> >> > specific recordings, but to cultivate and
> >> inculcate a particular kind of
> >> > intentional listening (ie attention) both as a
> >> practioner and in the
> >> > "audience."
> >>
> >> Kim asked me what I meant by "unintentional
> sound";
> >> this weekend I
> >> happened to record what I consider to be a
> perfect
> >> example; I just
> >> put up an excerpt on my site here:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
http://www.quietamerican.org/download/dropbox/Harbin/
> >>
> >> The sound in question was the continual chaotic
> (in
> >> both a technical and
> >> visceral sense) burbling of a swimming pool drain
> at
> >> some developed
> >> hotsprings near Calistoga.
> >>
> >> The two recordings "Harbin Hotsprings Pool..."
> are
> >> the drain. It was at
> >> water level and was making variations on this
> >> variously musical and static
> >> burble for the three days we were there. I
> recorded
> >> it for about an hour
> >> total and was interrupted by security only twice.
> :)
> >>
> >> As labeled, one was recorded with my head-mounted
> >> Sonic Studios DSM-6S/EH
> >> mics, and the other was my first try with a new
> >> Aquarian H2 hydrophone
> >> (not simultaneous recordings sadly).
> >>
> >> The generator off to stage left also provides the
> >> resonant hum in the
> >> hydrophone recording I believe. A good argument
> for
> >> a directional mic!
> >>
> >> Btw the other two files in that directory were
> frogs
> >> recorded a quarter
> >> mile away -- one (as labeled) that I took a 30
> >> second stab at "cleaing up"
> >> to remove the gray noise of a stream a few
> hundred
> >> feet away and some mic
> >> hiss...
> >>
> >>  best,
> >>   aaron
> >>
> >>   ghede@xxxxxxxx
> >>   http://www.quietamerican.org
> >>
> >>   |  quod omne animal post   |
> >>   |  cogitum est triste...   |
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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