http://www.weirdvibrations.com/2009/12/13/a-sound-studies-primer/ Sound in Bangkok Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:03:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.weirdvibrations.com/2009/12/13/a-sound-studies-primer/comment-page-1/#comment-9301 New England Phonographer’s Union: MIC’D – silence opens doors Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:56:49 +0000 http://www.weirdvibrations.com/?p=714#comment-9301 [...] Christopher DeLaurenti of the Seattle Phonographers Union has pointed out that good practice in field recording requires an awareness of listening as a form of mediation. During our time spent out on the docks and under the bridges of Kittery with Ernst and Jed, this notion kept coming up. We watched them stand huddled from the wind, microphone placed as closely as possible to the sound source as they tried to keep still for upwards of ten minutes at a time. And yet, the presence of the microphone shifts how we perceive the thing being recorded. “There’s a great illusion that I’ve always had about field recording, like being so attuned to what you’re doing that you feel very invisible, very inconspicuous,” Jed told us. “It’s really focusing on the moment.” [...] [...] Christopher DeLaurenti of the Seattle Phonographers Union has pointed out that good practice in field recording requires an awareness of listening as a form of mediation. During our time spent out on the docks and under the bridges of Kittery with Ernst and Jed, this notion kept coming up. We watched them stand huddled from the wind, microphone placed as closely as possible to the sound source as they tried to keep still for upwards of ten minutes at a time. And yet, the presence of the microphone shifts how we perceive the thing being recorded. “There’s a great illusion that I’ve always had about field recording, like being so attuned to what you’re doing that you feel very invisible, very inconspicuous,” Jed told us. “It’s really focusing on the moment.” [...]

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