Re: [microsound] Unintentional sound

[andrew benson <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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Andrew Benson
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