Birth
August 16th, 2009 by admin
Recently, I’ve spent much of my free time recording different persussion passages for Masami Akita, Nic Le Ban/Jarboe/Jim Schoenecker, and Christian Kiefer/Keenan Lawler. I approached each of these sessions with a slightly different perspective, while using pretty much the same set-up and equipment. In spending so much time listening back to these while mixing them down to send off, I felt I became very familiar with them – what they sounded like, what they did, etc.
Then, upon sending them to the recipients, I deleted each one of the files on my computer, never to hear what the original sounded like again. Because what happens to them now is something beyond what they were, and a whole new life will take form for them.
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August 30th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I like that you deleted them. A brave thing. Well done.
September 15th, 2009 at 10:13 am
hi Jon, wondering when this idea of deletion started, was it during recording, while mixing or when it was completed?
September 15th, 2009 at 10:48 am
It was after they were completed. I had little room for the files, so decided to let them go. Not only did I place them in capable hands, I also like the idea of looking at them as something that happened – a moment in time, and leaving it at that. If I need to do more, then I will do so, with a different perspective still.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
do you think the outcome would sound different if the let-go idea was at the start of the recording process,
or if there were no capable hands at the receiving end?
September 15th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
The outcome would always sound different, no matter what the circumstance.