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

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

Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't speak protools :/

bIz

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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."
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Stahl" <alex@pixar.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: OT - dynamics processors Re: Hearing parts that aren't there
(was: Re: the function of some music)


> 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
> >
> >------------
> >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
> >>
> >>
> >>
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