Re: some thoughts on a detailed lo-fi

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@...> wrote:
>
> i've uploaded a piece i recorded using a prehistoric $5 Fostex X-15
> four-track to try and demonstrate what i'd call "detailed lo-fi". So
> besides an endless pile of bouncing and recording multiple instruments
> to a single mics and several other "good audio" sins, i also tried to
> achieve something like clarity too--not clarity of the pristine ear
> candy variety, but clarity and personality of sonic layers despite the
> means.

I'd say you have achieved it, in spades!

> Some parts are bone dry, some are direct through headphone jack,
> some are frightfully undermiced and some are so garish from bouncing
> that they've aquired a kind of decay you just can't achieve with the
> push of a button....you have to plant it like a garden and turn the mud
> and muck with your fingers and work it and wait to see if something
> breaks through and flowers.

Nice work, as usual--haunting, dreamlike, surreal and beautiful in a
kind of disturbing/disturbed way.

Best,
Aaron.