The world makes its own music, but we rarely listen with naive ears.
Quiet American is the manipulation of sounds I hear and record.
The project began as I grappled with what it meant to be a tourist in another culture. It continues as I grapple with what it means to be a tourist in my own.
The opportunity, the thrill, and the risk of travel is being present to the world. My goal with Quiet American is to sketch in sound the experience of being in an unfamiliar place.
The work on this site is not a replacement for travel. But if you are willing to listen, you may be transported.
primaltheory wrote:dude, that fucked with my adhd/ocd so bad, now I'm all freaked out...man you didn't tell me there were urban sounds i thought it was nature
at the moment i'm having the amazing audio experience of being just like i'm in the recording studio with soundgarden when they were making badmotorfinger :icon14:
Right now I am excited and anxious because I heard too many things and I wanna go find out what they are and it's making me very frustraited that Michigan only got 17 minutes of sun in december (real number). And I really wanna go meet some people or somthing, and I'm very interested as to what country he was in and what village that was and just wow I need to simmer down.
Why not?
[i]Jenny: lol, i'm not changing the whole harddrive directory structure for a mod. Do it proper like other mods please.[/i]
Wow those are pretty amazing. You really do feel as if you're 'there'. I'd love to try listening to them when I've not slept for 24 hours or so, when I begin to start hearing things anyway
Juggy, I've heard the matchbox one before, and it's still as impressive as ever, I really love that one. Flippin excellent. The quiet american recordings are very good too. Let me add some that I think you'll like as well. I remember reading a page about binaural recordings some time ago linked by someone at head fi. I found the page and there's lots of recordings. A handful are mp3 but the rest are MPC format which is much higher quality. To play MPC there's various links on the page, but I've just downloaded foobar which works well. Check it out.
"Binaural recordings are made in such a way as to try and capture the way sounds are actually heard... they can do this many different ways.. unlike the recordings on http://www.quietamerican.com that were done with a semi-binaural technique (which offer great sounding recordings through speakers, but are still best listened to by headphones) I have invested in recording gear to do true binaural recordings.. That gear is a pair of tiny microphones that rest inside my ears, like in-ear headphones for walkmans but obviously listening out, rather than playing in... So what these microphones actually record is what I am about to actually hear... "
seremtan wrote:at the moment i'm having the amazing audio experience of being just like i'm in the recording studio with soundgarden when they were making badmotorfinger :icon14:
DRuM wrote:Juggy, I've heard the matchbox one before, and it's still as impressive as ever, I really love that one. Flippin excellent. The quiet american recordings are very good too. Let me add some that I think you'll like as well. I remember reading a page about binaural recordings some time ago linked by someone at head fi. I found the page and there's lots of recordings. A handful are mp3 but the rest are MPC format which is much higher quality. To play MPC there's various links on the page, but I've just downloaded foobar which works well. Check it out.
"Binaural recordings are made in such a way as to try and capture the way sounds are actually heard... they can do this many different ways.. unlike the recordings on http://www.quietamerican.com that were done with a semi-binaural technique (which offer great sounding recordings through speakers, but are still best listened to by headphones) I have invested in recording gear to do true binaural recordings.. That gear is a pair of tiny microphones that rest inside my ears, like in-ear headphones for walkmans but obviously listening out, rather than playing in... So what these microphones actually record is what I am about to actually hear... "
i'll check them out when i get home from work, thx Drummeh. btw, foobar is my default player, and it should be yours
MusikCube FTW! Download musikcube, all it's plugins (works with last.fm), and listen away, it indexes your entire pc for music, and it only uses ~3k of system memmory as opposed to itunes 60+
Why not?
[i]Jenny: lol, i'm not changing the whole harddrive directory structure for a mod. Do it proper like other mods please.[/i]
MusikCube looks pretty nice, I was trying to get foobar to act like itunes but gave up. Although to be honest, I have plenty of memory I don't 'really' need to use small programs .
primaltheory wrote:MusikCube FTW! Download musikcube, all it's plugins (works with last.fm), and listen away, it indexes your entire pc for music, and it only uses ~3k of system memmory as opposed to itunes 60+
that's cool if you need a replacement for itunes sans an ipod. good thing i don't use itunes.
foobar ftw for me. plus, it has a gazillion plugins. (that's alot)
Thanks juggy. Lol, you just gotta check out the dummy head demonstration, there's some freakishly realistic moments in it, particularly when the man and woman are an inch from each ear talking and whispering. And it has various other sound effects and music in it.
glad you dugg it. i can't believe no one here has headphones ffs. missing out.
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