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

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

Perhaps the Eventide Omnipressor plug-in? I used to play through a 
hardware Omnipressor and seem to remember it could turn your dynamics 
upside down.

(or write your own with pluggo....)


At 12:54 PM -0700 6/6/03, sserendipity wrote:
>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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