OT - dynamics processors Re: Hearing parts that aren't there (was: Re: the function of some music)

["sserendipity" <ssrndpty@hotmail.com>]

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

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----- 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
>
>
>
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