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Record your soundscape please!!!!!!!!
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I really need your help guys! I'm working on a project to submit at link but for doing it i need the collaboration of lot of people, otherwise the project will fail and i'll be really really sad...
Anyway, i need you to get your mics and record not less than 5mins out of your window. I need a field recordings of the very place where you live togheter with a short reflection about a particular sound that your memory associates with the place you live in.
read the text below, it's the really first writing of the idea so please sorry about it, it's probably row and needs better english but you can already understand what i need those field recordings for.
thanks in advance.
send everything to bluermutt AT NOSPAM gmail.com
'for everywhere but not here' it's a generative work that aims to be a reflection on the emotional side of distance, the perception i have of the places where i'm not, the obsessive desire of escape from territorial addiction.
I mean, home?
How can a piece of software help me to go deeper in to what i feel as a culturally constructed perception?
How can sound be emplied to estabilish a relationship with distant places and the people in there?
I've asked to many web friends to collect the sounds out of their window and then to send me a field recording togheter with a reflection about a particular sound that they strongly associate with the place where they live.
Then a software i wrote a software in Max/MSP that randomly plays these sound files one after the other wihout ever repeating the same file twice in a row. While the sound plays it is digitally processed and the amount of dsp on it is defined by the distance between the place where that recording comes from the place of the one that played before.
So, the more a sound is distant to one that preceded it the more it's original form is lost for being transformed in something new.
Moreover, while this happens, the texts about the sounds are displayed in accordance to what is playing. | |
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07/15/06
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daswesen
That's a great idea, Bluermutt! I'll be miking the stuff later on (crappy mikes though)...
07/15/06
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bleen
what a great idea, b!! i'll send you a track of my place when i upload the remastered "april" (probably not until monday as i'm in the studio all day/night this weekend).
really excited to hear what this may sound like!!
07/15/06
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Bluermutt
thanks guys,please spread the word if you know someone who doesn't mind about spending 10 mins recording stuff.
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FailedSitcom
I tried earlier, but neither my laptop's microphone or headphones were up to the job I'm afraid.
07/15/06
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Bluermutt
don't worry failed, you already help enough!
(I started the I'd rater miss you rework just today, this last period i've been really busy but now i think i can finally spend all the time necessary on it)
07/15/06
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bodo
i'll give it a shot tonight
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skab
got my microtrak back from repair. i'll give it a go now
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kidko
I'm about to go take the dog for a walk around my neighborhood, i'll bring the MD!
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populus
any preference on file type? i can send something tomorrow...just the sound of the forest behind my house...
07/16/06
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wildo
I do it this morning. cool.
07/16/06
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Bluermutt
wav or aiff are totally fine. no mp3 please, stereo when possible, not less than 5 mins.
populus please do it! i'd love to hear that forest.
thank you so much guys, i really can't wait to hear all these sounscapes... i already started to write the patch so probably, if everything works and i menage to get a good amount of recordings i'lll post the software here quite soon.
07/16/06
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daveojo
I'll give this a go in the next few days. There's a fair down on the seafront that I should be able to pick up. 
07/16/06
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Fah
what a coïncedence i was recording a nice thunderstorm yesterday
uploading...
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soft
i did this yesterday for about 20 mins.....but it recorded pretty quiet, so you have to turn it up a lot to hear anything. and when you do that you increase the background noise/hiss too. and the wind blew onto the mic a few times making it clip.
i am using my mates condenser mic to do this.....not exactly the right mic to use for recording at a distance as it generates quite a lot of ambient noise too.
any tips on getting less hiss/noise?? what type of mic is best? i'll see if i can get one from somewhere
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bsr
i'll try and do a recording now but there's quite a bit of wind about.
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