To add to the fray, check out this site:
http://www.silophone.net/eng/about.html( this is the general English language description with a photo )
This is an unused grain silo in Montreal that has been wired up with
speakers and mikes and people are invited to upload sounds - awesome reverb
time!
The parent site is a bit to "cute" for my tastes in web design - there are a
lot of rollover buttons but they are hidden and you have to mouse around
before you find them all. Also, many of the buttons offer both English and
French options and there is a _very_ fine dividing line between where the
pointer should be to select. Minor nits... :-)
http://www.silophone.net/index.htmlThe idea itself is awesome and the implementation seems to be really solid
( corporate sponsors, etc... )
Dave - who is taking a break from assembling a number of MOTMs and thinking
about a 2M gallon water cistern up in Port Townsend, WA - a number of people
have recorded in it ( check out the Deep Listening Band on the New Albion
label (
http://www.newalbion.com/ )
http://www.newalbion.com/NA022/ and
http://www.newalbion.com/NA076/-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:
ken.tkacs@...]
-> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 6:01 AM
-> To: '
motm@egroups.com'
-> Subject: RE: [motm] resonating bodies
->
->
->
-> Many years ago I used to hang out with an older guy that
-> owned a music store
-> (he was trying to get a "Hawaiian" band started as I
-> remember). He told me
-> that in the earliest days of recording studios, they were
-> typically built
-> above things like huge cellars or abandoned subway tunnels
-> and things. Mics
-> & speakers tied to the console were dangled down into these
-> big, complex
-> chambers and there was your reverb!
->
-> With the advent of clean, controllable electronic ambience, the trend
-> through the latter part of the century (soon to be 'last'
-> century...yikes!)
-> was of course to record dry and then add the reverb in the
-> mix. Then some
-> producers (I remember Daniel Lanois taking a lot of bows for
-> this) came up
-> with the radical idea that perhaps ambience could be
-> recorded along with the
-> music in the performance space (I guess they had never heard
-> of orchestral
-> music before...).
->
-> I always find the idea of introducing complex behaviors into
-> electronic
-> music enticing, and letting a little "nature" seep into the
-> circuit sure
-> fits the bill. In the spring reverb days, we took it for
-> granted that you
-> would have a big tank full of springs on the floor a few
-> feet away from the
-> console... why not return to that idea? Having a generic
-> 'resonator' module
-> which is basically the driver/receiver from a reverb unit,
-> but where the
-> 'springs' can be anything you want? I imagine that some
-> clever physical
-> design could be devised to make easily swappable
-> "cartridges" for the tank.
-> Loads of fun experimentation could be had.
->
-> To go further, perhaps the receive end could have some kind
-> of DSP to do
-> time/pitch-shifting, etc., to extend the effects of the
-> resonators (make
-> them sound "bigger").
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