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Re: [microsound] anyone up for a .microsound project?

the original versions doesn't sound like this... lo-fi mp3s always do their
worst.
i have downloaded the "symphonies of the planets" 5 disc set which is of
course definitely edited material, but you know.. flac vs lo-fi mp3...
dynamics are always sensible i believe.
so we may ask the scientists then for better encoded versions. :)

2008/1/10, Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> i like this response.
>
> but still, one wonders if this is what the original sound file sounds
> like, or has it been mp3 compressed to death by scientists that
> aren't audiophiles?
>
> if the original sound files are this quality, so be it. but i always
> like to work with the best possible sounding source material before i
> start to screw around w/ it.
>
> g.
>
> On 10-Jan-08, at 12:03 PM, Owen Green wrote:
>
> > Can't it be both?
> >
> > As representations of 'pure' phenomena - and not ones we could ever
> > directly hear, it's worth noting - the files' limited bandwidth and
> > dynamic range can be understood as inhibiting.
> >
> > As representations of an (imperfect) reconstruction of some
> > phenomena, we hear the results of, e.g., technical ambiguity (in
> > the construction of a sound from sensor data) and of choices (made
> > about *how* to sonify,
> > how much to clean up, the resolution at which to publish online etc.).
> >
> > For me, it's the messy ambiguity that I find 'meaningful character'
> > in...
> >
> > --
> > Owen
> >
> >
> >
> > Visa Kuoppala wrote:
> >> My thoughts also... And I don't think this adds any meaningful
> >> "character" to the sounds, but reduces their subtle otherworldly
> >> qualities...
> >> I'm in anyway, but higher quality soundfiles would make it more
> >> interesting...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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