/* Saturday April 25th, 2009 03:43:21 PM

Machine Project Field Recording Workshop

Instructor Clay Chaplin

What is field recording?

Phonography (.org)
	For example, recording a stream.

Lomax Recordings
	Lead Belly

Colan Turnbol (1957)
	Recordings in Rainforest

Music Concrete
	Pier Shafer - Symfony for one man
	early 1950's

Hugh LaCain
	A drip of water varied
	"short but sweat"

Glen Gould--"Idea of North"
	Field recording interview
	Train ride north (like photokoto)
	his editing choices are most important

Field Recording as being related to photography

Jen Boyd--field recordings of trees with contact microphone
	She had a piece at the San Francisco Electronic Music festival

Hydrophone
	Field Recording and its connection to science

"Sound Quilts"

Collecting

Noise Water Meat

Quality
	Sample rate
		CD 44.1K
		Film 48k

	Bit Depth
		16bit, 24bit

Human Hearing ~ 20hz - 20khz

Harmonics make up timbre

Recording chain
	General rule: "anywhere crap in, crap out"

	1. Microphone
		- diaphragm
		- how sensitive is it?
	2. Preamp
		- amplifies the microphone
	3. A/D converter 

	Levels--12 peak value
	Don't turn the headphones up all the way

the WULF

_Richard */