The Diary 11.07.05

[stanleylieber]

Comments

[silenceinspades]

i like this a lot. i'm not going to ask you how you recorded my father's nightly, guttural yelling, but good work.

[stanleylieber]

Happy accident.

[silenceinspades]

the image is great too.

seriously, what did you use for the song?

[sparkligbeatnic]

There's a nice sense of space in this. Are you using binaural mics now?

[stanleylieber]

Yes, though the pastiche of the base stereo samples is only one layer here. We just used the generic little 'T' microphone that came with the recorder. Not much separation.

[sparkligbeatnic]

it's not only the separation that is important for good binaural effect - the impedance of the two mics should be matched. that's what makes them expensive.

[stanleylieber]

Yes. A friend of mine is constructing one for me, along the lines of what is offered by Core Audio.

[sparkligbeatnic]

I can hear the influence of my INRP here. INRP is like the dust left on my floor after my unfinished efforts at cleaning house this past weekend. I Can't Think is more like the auditory flotsam and jetsam of an afternoon at the local shopping plaza.

[stanleylieber]

By the way, I utilized one of the photographs you posted to flickr a while back in the collage-picture that accompanies this entry.

[sparkligbeatnic]

didn't notice. i usually happy when people use my pictures but prefer an explicit aknowledgement of the source.

when it's used as tastefully as this i don't insist.

[stanleylieber]

Other elements in the collage are 'Vacation in Gironde,' a photograph by Willy Ronis (circa 1945), posted to livejournal by real_funny_lady; and a picture of the card-swipe security entrance to the building I work in, snapped with my phonecam.

[sparkligbeatnic]

By influence, I mean oplocromodally, of course.

Trying to reverse-oplocromodalize a piece is of course a risky affair.

[stanleylieber]

:)

[landruc]

Is that where a remote computer controls you without knowing exactly what it's doing?

[sparkligbeatnic]

Not what I had in mind, however that's a remarkably accurate picture of many people's daily experience.

What I was thinking of was trying to reconstruct (or more realistically, guess) what piece the composer had being listening to while composing the oplocromodalized work.

BTW oplocromodalization does not specifically have to involve a computer or electronic instruments.

[anglerfish96]

You are seriously tempting me with that Microtrack link.

Good stuff, although I need to listen to it with headphones.

Other news:

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[stanleylieber]

Maybe he's moving to Toronto full-time.