Quake3World

i recommend this site particularly the field recordings page.

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.

samples:

bell

faucet

frogs

"where you come from?"

Rowing

There "where you come from" was excellent.

mjrpes wrote:There "where you come from" was excellent.

Very well done :icon14: A great idea too.

Listen with closed eyes is a must!!!!

Nice +JuggerNaut+

from the www

One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.

mjrpes wrote:There "where you come from" was excellent.

hehe yeah, i think that's my favorite.


here's some really well done holographic sounds. seriously, this'll blow your mind.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote: here's some really well done holographic sounds. seriously, this'll blow your mind.

ahh!! it's like the sounds is going up and down. i felt it around my leg, and down my back. very cool stuff.

EDIT: listen to again. i notice the sounds goes around my head. get it off! get it off!!

glad you dugg it. i can't believe no one here has headphones ffs. missing out.

very trippy. anyone with headphones should check it out.

I have a pair of HD 580, but I also tried it on some sony in-ear phones, has same effect.

mjrpes wrote:very trippy. anyone with headphones should check it out.

I have a pair of HD 580, but I also tried it on some sony in-ear phones, has same effect.

i posted about this before, but in case you missed it, check out Dolby Headphone. Click on the Dolby icon on the right of the page.

mjrpes wrote:very trippy. anyone with headphones should check it out.

I have a pair of HD 580

Cool, same as mine. Thanks juggy, I'll check these out now.

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

*thanks alot!

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

*thanks alot!

Explain

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.

Indeed that "where you come from?" clip was most impressive. Good fund Juggs

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.

http://binaural.jimtreats.com/

http://www.foobar2000.org/

"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:

:lub:

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.

http://binaural.jimtreats.com/

http://www.foobar2000.org/

"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

Yeah, foobar is great, I think I'll indeed make it default.

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+

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 .

How do I change the volume on foobar?

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)

DRuM wrote:How do I change the volume on foobar?

by default it does not have one enabled, which makes sense. you can enable it though:

http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/foobar/foobar-2.shtml

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.