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On a vaguely related note, I've been looking for a software based dynamics processor with a >negative< ratio controls - not fractional like an expander, but actually negative. If any such beast exists, please let me know. Dbx used to make a hardware one. This would allow you to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts quiet. bIz ------------ http://www.groovetronica.com - "Well, it hasn't made it into our playlist, I'm afraid. It's summer so there are no djs here to listen to and play music, so we're just playing automated music right now." ------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: Hearing parts that aren't there (was: Re: the function of some music) > --- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Brian Eno's notes on one of his earliest > > ambient albums (Music for Airports, I think, but I > > don't have it in front of me) describe another > > important aspect of ambient music. Eno was in bed > > recovering from having been hit by a car, and a friend > > brought over an LP of some very quiet 17th century > > harp music, put the record on and left. After she had > > left, Eno realized that the volume on the stereo was > > set much too low, but was not feeling up to getting > > out of bed to fix it. As he listened to the record, he > > could only hear the loudest notes, and had a sort of > > epiphany regarding another way of listening to music > > in the context of ambient sounds. It wasn't that he > > wasn't listening attentively, but rather, the 'local > > soundscape' was an integral part of the listening > > experience. > > Interesting, I'd never read that. But this happens to me periodically, in fact, > it's something I actively do to stoke my creativity. My car stereo has this nifty > "feature" of resetting the volume to some standard (very low) level when the car > is turned off. Some of the music I listen to is recorded at relatively >low > volumes and at the stereo's "standard volume" I can't hear anything but the > loudest notes in the music above the noise floor of the engine and the road. > > What I find happening sometimes is that my mind starts filling in the pieces to > construct a more complete musical piece. But they're not the same pieces from the > original music! I hear new rhythms, new melodys, and textures that aren't there. > Just something my mind formulates while trying to make sense of the >little bit of > music it's periodically hearing. > > It happened by accident the first time, and I was surprised to find a >song I knew > well playing away when I raised the volume of the stereo...and kind of > disappointing, since I was enjoying what my mind was formulating on it's own. Now > I actively persue finding that magic volume, where I'm hearing enough information > for my mind to hear and start working over, but not so much that it >starts > latching onto the original song. It doesn't hurt in this discovery that >my car is > becoming a noisy bucket of bolts, so the noise floor is much higher then it used > to be. > > Greg > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > >