Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 2:49 pm
Bruce Swedien is a myth as a master of sound engineering, he quoted in the Expert Forums by musicplayer.com this fantastic excerpt written in the 17th century:
"""Take a look at this.....
"We have also Soundhouses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generations. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Diverse instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds as extenuate and sharp; we make diverse tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly.
We have also diverse, strange and artificial echos, reflecting the voice many times...and some that give back the voice louder than it came... We have also the means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."
It’s a quotation from Sir Francis Bacon’s‘New Atlantis’ . He wrote and published this work in 1624. The‘New Atlantis’ was an original work predicting what life would be like in a “Utopian” world of the future.
I think that we, in the age of modern music making, have a tendency to think that we, and we alone, are responsible for the original thought and the creation of modern music.
I think this fascinating little quote shows both how much music has developed over the past 370 years and perhaps more interestingly, how little.
Bruce Swedien"""
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"""Take a look at this.....
"We have also Soundhouses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generations. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. Diverse instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise great sounds as extenuate and sharp; we make diverse tremblings and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly.
We have also diverse, strange and artificial echos, reflecting the voice many times...and some that give back the voice louder than it came... We have also the means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances."
It’s a quotation from Sir Francis Bacon’s‘New Atlantis’ . He wrote and published this work in 1624. The‘New Atlantis’ was an original work predicting what life would be like in a “Utopian” world of the future.
I think that we, in the age of modern music making, have a tendency to think that we, and we alone, are responsible for the original thought and the creation of modern music.
I think this fascinating little quote shows both how much music has developed over the past 370 years and perhaps more interestingly, how little.
Bruce Swedien"""
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: alfonso on 2005-05-29 16:50 ]</font>
