chris clarke on thu 23 jan 03
How horrible am I? I've placed a satellite dish in my studio, now I'll
never miss another football or hockey game. And the music of choice at this
moment is Matchbox20's newest.
temecula, california
chris@ccpots.com
http://www.ccpots.com
Sandy Miller on thu 23 jan 03
My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the studio full time, how =
did that happen so fast? I am much in need of some new books on tape or =
tunes. What is on the potters best list????
Sandy Miller in northeastern Ohio where they cancelled school today with =
windchills at -10. The birds are mobbing the feeder and I'm thinking =
about the garden! Happy potting!
Kristin on thu 23 jan 03
This question reminded me of a BIG thank you I have
never voiced here. Some time back, the question was
lofted re: where to hear good bluegrass. Somehow in
the discussion WNCW, out of Spindale, NC, came up.
Wow. I've listened just about every day since then, as
they are online and I am a cubicle gal. Amazing stuff,
best station, public or otherwise, I have ever heard.
Currently figuring a way to pipe it into my studio at
home.
No good stations here, so WNCW is how I hear of any
new music coming around that I need to add to my CD
collection. I listen to the bands coming through the
Asheville area and drool. Sometimes I think I want to
move to NC, just because of this station.
So, whomever mentioned the station about a year ago or
more -- THANK YOU! (http://www.wncw.org)
--- Sandy Miller wrote:
> My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the
> studio full time, how did that happen so fast? I am
> much in need of some new books on tape or tunes.
> What is on the potters best list????
>
> Sandy Miller in northeastern Ohio where they
> cancelled school today with windchills at -10. The
> birds are mobbing the feeder and I'm thinking about
> the garden! Happy potting!
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Karin Hurt on thu 23 jan 03
Nora Jones CD
The Soundtrack from "Frida" a wonderful film about the life of Frida Kahlo
and Diego Rivera.
Karin in Arizona
www.laughingbearpottery.com
"After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
PenniStoddart on thu 23 jan 03
With a new computer at christmas came oodles of memory. Hence we downloaded
and regularly use Kazaa, a file sharing program. I have downloaded TONS of
music for myself and my kids. Burned two CDs one for me and one for hubby.
Mine is out in the garage/studio and was played last Saturday nonstop while
I cleaned up and moved things around to accomodate my two new-to-me kilns.
I have all kinds of stuff on the CD from Superstition by Stevie Wonder to
the Fine Young Cannibals to The Proclaimers. All of it is up tempo so I
spent Saturday moving, lugging and dancing!
Just the way uh huh uh huh I like it!
Smile!
=o) =o) =o) =o) =o) =o) =o)
Penni Stoddart
of Penelope's Pots
Full Time Education Assistant,
Part Time Potter
Kenneth D. Westfall on thu 23 jan 03
Hey nothing better than a good mystery or Clancy book on tape. Keeps me
wanting to stay out in the shop a few extra hours each day to get to the
next tape or disk. Our public library keeps a large selection so there
free for the borrowing and make a great alternative to music or the TV.
At 09:55 AM 01/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the studio full time, how =
>did that happen so fast? I am much in need of some new books on tape or =
>tunes. What is on the potters best list????
>
>Sandy Miller in northeastern Ohio where they cancelled school today with =
>windchills at -10. The birds are mobbing the feeder and I'm thinking =
>about the garden! Happy potting!
>
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Pine Hill Pottery
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Neil Fallon on thu 23 jan 03
If you are into traditional Celtic music try Sinead O'Connor's new CD
"Sean-Nos Nua" and ANY Dianna Krall CD.
Neil Fallon
Rock Pond Pottery
Lois Ruben Aronow on thu 23 jan 03
I humbly admit to having a thing for trashy court shows, especially
"Peoples Court" and "Judge Judy". I don't get good reception in the
studio, but as long as I can hear it it's fine. I LOVE these shows.
Musically, I am currently listening to "Badly Drawn Boy" and
"Soundtrack of our Lives". I highly recommend both CDs. I have also
been indulging in a David Bowie "Best of" import, covering 1971 -
1981. IMHO, the best years of his. Other new discoveries are the
Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Also like the Strokes new cd. My other guilty
pleasure is Dan Zanes. He was the leader of the Del Fuegos, and now
puts our "family" music. (He's also a neighbor) It's amazing stuff.
I'm very fortunate that my studio mate shares most of the same tastes
as I do, and we tend to go through the same music phases at the same
time. And she recently confessed to liking Dr. Phil. Sometimes its a
tough decision between him and Judge Joe Brown. :-)
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David Beumee on thu 23 jan 03
Orchestra Baobab, "Specialist in all Styles", and
Salif Keita, "Moffou" are new and terrific in my studio.
David Beumee
Earth Alchemy Pottery
Lafayette, CO 80026
1/23/03 7:55:23 AM, Sandy Miller wrote:
>My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the studio full time, how did that happen so fast? I am much in
need of some new books on tape or tunes. What is on the potters best list????
>
>Sandy Miller in northeastern Ohio where they cancelled school today with windchills at -10. The birds are
mobbing the feeder and I'm thinking about the garden! Happy potting!
>
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claybair on fri 24 jan 03
My music taste like my work is pretty eclectic Celtic, Shakera, Annie
Defranco, Sting, James Taylor, New age, Dance music, U2, Classical, Jon
Secada, Beatles, Wind Machine, Peter Gabriel to name a few.
My son was sure I had lost it when he walked through my studio when I was
blaring Country & Western. You can also catch me listening to NPR's Prairie
Home Companion, The Car Guys, Science Friday, This American Life and the
news as reported by NPR.
Has anyone noticed how utterly horrible the local & national news reporting
has become... or it just me? The unabashed, station plug interruptions,
station banners, chit chat, inaccuracy of facts, attempts to make news where
there is none, reporting dumbed down to a 2nd grade level..... makes me
nuts.... I try not to listen or watch it to keep my sanity.
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart Neil Fallon
If you are into traditional Celtic music try Sinead O'Connor's new CD
"Sean-Nos Nua" and ANY Dianna Krall CD.
Neil Fallon
Rock Pond Pottery
Dean Walker on fri 24 jan 03
Mark Knoffler, The Rankins, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Midnight Oil. Also,
anything Bluegrass !
Dean
Russel Fouts on fri 24 jan 03
Sandy,
>> My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the studio full time, how did that happen so fast? I am much in need of some new books on tape or tunes. What is on the potters best list???? <<
WHAT!?! You're tired of Stevie Ray Vaughn, George Thoroughgood and
Johnny Lang?
How about 60's style surf guitar? Dick Dale, Blue Stingrays, etc.
Better'n coffee!
Ru
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Donna Hoff-Grambau on fri 24 jan 03
NPR, my son has worked for the local NPR station for the last 5 years as
a student.
Donna Hoff-Grambau
Two Rivers Paper
& Two Rivers Pottery
Garry Wakely on fri 24 jan 03
Anything by Delerium, Loreena McKennitt, or Enya. For me at least, these
artists are perfect to do wheel work by.
Garry (who is freezing his buns off in Virginia Beach, although freezing in
Virginia Beach is SUPPOSED to be an oxymoron!)
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Loreena McKennitt, to warm up in the morning. Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman. Van
Morrison, Steve Winwood, and now and then some good ole' Doo-Wap...you can
take the girl out of Detroit, but you can't take the Motown out of the girl.
Cher Gauvin
Charles and Linda Riggs on fri 24 jan 03
Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Loreena McKennitt, Danish language tapes,
"Fire Songs Collection" put together by Lyla Kaplan for our wood-firing parties
(thanks again Lyla), and of course, NPR.
Linda
Neil Fallon on fri 24 jan 03
In a message dated 1/24/2003 5:12:54 AM Eastern Standard Time,
gayle@CLAYBAIR.COM writes:
> Has anyone noticed how utterly horrible the local & national news reporting
> has become... or it just me? The unabashed, station plug interruptions,
> station banners, chit chat, inaccuracy of facts, attempts to make news
> where
> there is none, reporting dumbed down to a 2nd grade level..... makes me
> nuts.... I try not to listen or watch it to keep my sanity.
May I suggest your local National Public Radio station. The only thing that
annoys me are the fund raising periods (NPR is member supported, even more so
after the conservative congress cut its spending in the mid 90's)
Craig Clark on fri 24 jan 03
Depending upon the time of day: Start off in the am with plenty o news
and left wing commentary. Love to listen to KPFT (Pacifica radio 90.1 in
Houston). THis kinda gets me in the groove and gets my hackles raised enough
to keep me away from the coffee pot (no need for artificial stimulant when
one is all ready frothing at the mouth at the powers that be. If I really
wanna get myself going I'll tune in to about two minutes of Limbaugh and the
AM radio gaggle. Let the fireworks begin.)
Will vary this with two other public radio stations here in town, KUHF
(88.7 FM, morning edition and classical music) and KTSU (90.9 FM which has
some news and primarily plays Jazz.)
By the time the afternoon rolls around I'm into the extensive CD sets,
depending upon my mood may be Coltarane, Ella Fitzgerald, US3, Dillan,,
War,, Wille Nelson, or the Mad Proffessor (check him out if you haven't
heard.) Quite a few others as well. Primarily enjoy blues, jazz, acoustic
and a lttle bit o country. Loud obnoxius head banger stuff or something like
eminem or Dr. Dre if I've got a bunch of clay to wedge of a lot of cleaning
to do.
Craig Dunn Clark
619 East 11 1/2 st
Houston, Texas 77008
(713)861-2083
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----- Original Message -----
From: Garry Wakely
To:
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: what are you listening to in your studio??
> Anything by Delerium, Loreena McKennitt, or Enya. For me at least, these
> artists are perfect to do wheel work by.
>
> Garry (who is freezing his buns off in Virginia Beach, although freezing
in
> Virginia Beach is SUPPOSED to be an oxymoron!)
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Paul Vernier on fri 24 jan 03
I usually have the stereo tuned to K-PIG out of Freedom Calif, near Santa Cruz.
They play everything from Bluegrass to Blues, Live acoustic sessions and some really funny commercials that poke fun at the corporate world or the human condition.
For some fun give them a listen at www.kpig.com
Paul
In Santa Cruz where the fog moved in and the rain is just behind it.
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Cat Yassin on fri 24 jan 03
When I'm not hearing the neighbors yippy little Chihuahuas I put on Nora
Jones, Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Rait, Lorena McKennit, Annie Lennox, Greg Allman,
and one of my very favorites Aimee Mann's soundtrack from Magnolia... And
when the chihuahuas are really loud and irritating I crank it up a notch and
play anything Led Zepplin REALLY LOUD!
-Cat Yassin
San Antonio (we actually had ice on the roads today... amazing!)
Leland G. Hall on fri 24 jan 03
Hi mud puppies. I'v tried Jazz, Rock, Blues, and Easy. Love it, but too
distracting. Been tuned in to public radio for several years now. News
and classical music, 60 hours a week in the studio. Drives my wife crazy,
so I let her change it when she's there on weekends. Thanks for the books
on tape idea! I want to try that!
Leland in La Pine
Before The Wheel Enterprises
La Pine, OR, USA
some one else wrote
""Hey nothing better than a good mystery or Clancy book on tape. Keeps me
wanting to stay out in the shop a few extra hours each day to get to the
next tape or disk. Our public library keeps a large selection so there
free for the borrowing and make a great alternative to music or the TV.
At 09:55 AM 01/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>My holiday is over and I seem to be back in the studio full time, how =
>did that happen so fast? I am much in need of some new books on tape or =
>tunes. What is on the potters best list????
>
>Sandy Miller in northeastern Ohio where they cancelled school today with =
>windchills at -10. The birds are mobbing the feeder and I'm thinking =
>about the garden! Happy potting!
claybair on fri 24 jan 03
Chris,
You are horrible and I am jealous!!!-)
I don't have a TV or for that matter running water,
but I do have noisy fluorescent lighting and recently
mosquitoes in my studio! :-< I do blast my
CD/radio to drown out those lovely sounds!
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
http://claybair.com
-----Original Message-----
From: chris clarke
How horrible am I? I've placed a satellite dish in my studio, now I'll
never miss another football or hockey game. And the music of choice at this
moment is Matchbox20's newest.
temecula, california
chris@ccpots.com
http://www.ccpots.com
Brian O'Neill on fri 24 jan 03
Lately I'm vacillating between James Brown's greatest hits "feel so good, think I
gotta kiss myself", to an 80's bent--Cars, Thomas Dolby, Fine Young Cannibals,
Police--then deep into some Beethoven--back to some Moby, Heads2, DJ Shadow for
some afternoon hip hop.
I just watched the "StompOutLoud" video and now want to take all my bisque ware
outside and make some crazy rhythm on them with sticks!
Brian
in Washington State wondering when winter is coming our way.
Pat Stern on fri 24 jan 03
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Catherine White on fri 24 jan 03
Hi........ Always the BeeGees, Village People, soundtracks from "Ghost and
the Darkness" and Jurassic Park, Barbara Borden's All Hearts Beating, some
Jazz, lots of old-time Country Western, Meat Loaf, Exile, Bob Segar.
Best wishes from,
Catherine in Yuma, AZ
My inability to emulate occasionally results in originality.
Suzanne Wolfe on fri 24 jan 03
No, you are not the only one who loves silence!
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John Jensen on fri 24 jan 03
When it comes to "creative" work, I much prefer silence. I don't want
my awareness filled with someone else's creative output. I like the calm
center of silence and the timelessness which goes with that.
But when I am doing repetitive production work, I like to listen to
music or NPR.
John Jensen, Mudbug Pottery
mudbug@toadhouse.com, www.toadhouse.com
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Peter and Samantha Tomich on fri 24 jan 03
When I was working in my studio before my ilness I listened to alot of
Christian Contemporary Music. Now i have been listening to alot of my kids'
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Peter and Samantha Tomich on fri 24 jan 03
When I was working in my studio before my illness I listened to Christian
Contemporary Music, mainly the alternative stuff. Now I am also listening to
my kids' music: Nickelback, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Linkin Park.... like
the same music but not lyrics primarily about my relationship with God. Now
that My husband is going to be helping out more in the studio (He's actually
asked me to teach him to throw)... 80's music will be playing. What a mix!
I like silence, too (especially after enough 80's music)!
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Philip Poburka on fri 24 jan 03
Hello Pat,
I too have long had the habit of 'silence', or, whatever
sound the Work has to it.
For 'cleaning' however, I like to play old '78's from the
late 'teens through early 'thirties...of which some are
Jazz, and some Hawiian tunes, and some the transient
'popular' music of the time...
Somehow they allways evoked an inspired domesticity sort-of
mood for me...
'Home'...
Phil
Las Vegas
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Lois Ruben Aronow on fri 24 jan 03
I have been doing a big BeeGees thing lately, what with the passing of
Maurice and all. I burned a CD with nothing but "NY mining disaster"
and some other early stuff....
>Hi........ Always the BeeGees, Village People, soundtracks from "Ghost=
and
>the Darkness" and Jurassic Park, Barbara Borden's All Hearts Beating, =
some
>Jazz, lots of old-time Country Western, Meat Loaf, Exile, Bob Segar.
>
>Best wishes from,
> Catherine in Yuma, AZ
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gillian evison on fri 24 jan 03
Has anyone tried 'books on tape or CD'? It is the greatest treat to have
someone telling you stories whilst you glaze your way through boxes of
bisque ware. Some stories take 12 tapes, which = 12 hours of listening. And
some of the speaking voices and accents are pure joy!
Jill from Vancouver, but currently staying in my country of birth, lovely
sunny N.Z.
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Mildred Herot on fri 24 jan 03
I usually put the classical radio station on and let er rip. Of course,
sometimes they play music to commit suicide to but, then, one can't have
everything can they.....Mildred Herot
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Subject: Re: what are you listening to in your studio??
> Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Loreena McKennitt, Danish
language tapes,
> "Fire Songs Collection" put together by Lyla Kaplan for our wood-firing
parties
> (thanks again Lyla), and of course, NPR.
> Linda
>
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Rare - Earth - Design on sat 25 jan 03
Sounds of nature! Anything else makes me throw pots out the window and get
up and dance. Emma.
Carol Ross on sat 25 jan 03
It's never silent in my as-yet-thank-God-unrenovated downtown St. Louis
loft. But when I'm not listening to Dylan, the Dixie Chicks, Van Morrison,
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks and of course NPR, the sounds of silence in my
bldg are the screech of the 19th c. elevator door... the unholy bang & hiss
of radiator pipes... voices from the street, fewer with the cold weather...
my neighbors working in their studios - good to have company, but better to
have doors and walls... and all the noises associated with the city. And I
love it all...
Carol R.
Valice Raffi on sat 25 jan 03
Mary Youngblood's Grammy nominated "Beneath the Raven Moon"
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder "Talking Timbuktu"
Lila Downs "Border"
and strangly
Rod Stewart "It Had To Be You"
Valice
in from prunning the roses on a lovely day
R C Hanlin on sat 25 jan 03
Silence! That's my best working environment. I do my best work in silence, I suppose so I can hear my self talking to myself.
Bob
Carol Ross wrote:It's never silent in my as-yet-thank-God-unrenovated downtown St. Louis
loft. But when I'm not listening to Dylan, the Dixie Chicks, Van Morrison,
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks and of course NPR, the sounds of silence in my
bldg are the screech of the 19th c. elevator door... the unholy bang & hiss
of radiator pipes... voices from the street, fewer with the cold weather...
my neighbors working in their studios - good to have company, but better to
have doors and walls... and all the noises associated with the city. And I
love it all...
Carol R.
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John Kimpton Dellow on sun 26 jan 03
I start the morning with classic music hosted by Clive of the ABC
and
finnish the afternoon with world music by Rubin Lucky Ocaens :).
John Dellow "the flower pot man"
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Jim Dunning on sun 26 jan 03
Jimmy Buffet helps the wheel go round.
Jim
Steve Mills on sun 26 jan 03
You are not alone!
Steve
Bath
UK
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Carol Ryan-Aube on sun 26 jan 03
I love Folk Music - any kind - Cajun, Ragee - Bob Marley, Irish - Clancy Brothers, and of course Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthie - even Woody Guthrie. At my pottery class at the University the other night, they were playing old 60's songs. It was a little distracting - bringing back way to many memories - it was hard to concentrate!! And it is so hard not to sing which I can freely enjoy at my own shop. I like silence too. Working as a high school teacher during the day and having my own teenage children, I never get to listen to "my" music. Not that I don't like there's - Blink 182 isn't too bad once you get use to it!!! When I'm working in my shop - it is my time - I choose my favorite music and sing my heart out!!!
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Ann Geiger on sun 26 jan 03
The sound of snowflakes falling and falling and falling.
Annie Geiger in Fly Creek NY having just done an unexpected 180 on the
way home.
Sam Yancy on sun 26 jan 03
For those noisy class rooms and so on. bring in a BLANK tape, title it "Sounds of Silence" plug it into the tape player and play it - several times in a row. Some will get the idea. I have just about given up in going to a pottery class locally (trying some glaze tests at cone 10 - as I don't have a cone 10 kiln) as there is more talking and laughing and giggling from the "regulars" than any real work done (note: not the new students). Sometimes like a social club to some rather than a place to learn and be creative. The instructor tries to keep it under control but not always. When the noise/cackling gets to much for me, I just up and leave as I have all the regular equipment at home. Sam in Daly City
Russel Fouts on mon 27 jan 03
Sam
>> For those noisy class rooms and so on. bring in a BLANK tape, title it "Sounds of Silence" plug it into the tape player and play it - several times in a row. Some will get the idea. <<
There is actually a principal behind this called White Noise. The tape
hiss doesn't have to be very loud, just audible in your enviroment. You
have to be able to hear it over the other noise but it doesn't have to
"cover up" the other noise.
Your brain will fix on this sound and pretty soon you won't here it OR
anything else. It really does work. If the tape hiss isn't loud enough
or is too irritating, record the static between stations on a radio.
The noise should be pleasant but absoultely not interesting. I don't
think this would work with wave noises or bird calls because they're too
"interesting". Your brain would be trying to listen to them. You don't
want it that interesting.
In Europe (at least in our office), they call this "Pink Noise". Go
figure!
Russel
I have just about given up in going to a pottery class locally (trying
some glaze tests at cone 10 - as I don't have a
cone 10 kiln) as there is more talking and laughing and giggling from
the "regulars" than any real
work done (note: not the new students). Sometimes like a social club to
some rather than a place to
learn and be creative. The instructor tries to keep it under control but
not always. When the
noise/cackling gets to much for me, I just up and leave as I have all
the regular equipment at home.
Sam in Daly City
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claybair on mon 27 jan 03
Interesting......
I can "listen" to some songs/albums
over and over for hours while in deep concentration.
Of course it has to be a song/album I love.
I guess it acts as white or pink (whatever) noise for me.
My theory is that it helps me focus while keeping random
or distracting thoughts at bay! My daughter does the same
thing while it would drive my husband crazy.
Maybe it's from growing up in a "loud" family?
Maybe it's an ADD trait? Maybe it doesn't matter as long
as I am happily producing great work!
I do find the sound of my buzzing studio lights extremely
distasteful and could not see putting a white noise CD
on when I can listen and be inspired by wonderful music.
Does anyone else do this or am I alone in my little world?
Gayle Bair- Listening to John Lennon's plea for Peace songs over and over
and over.........
Bainbridge Island, WA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Russel Fouts
Sam
>> For those noisy class rooms and so on. bring in a BLANK tape, title it
"Sounds of Silence" plug it into the tape player and play it - several times
in a row. Some will get the idea. <<
There is actually a principal behind this called White Noise. The tape
hiss doesn't have to be very loud, just audible in your enviroment. You
have to be able to hear it over the other noise but it doesn't have to
"cover up" the other noise.
Your brain will fix on this sound and pretty soon you won't here it OR
anything else. It really does work. If the tape hiss isn't loud enough
or is too irritating, record the static between stations on a radio.
The noise should be pleasant but absoultely not interesting. I don't
think this would work with wave noises or bird calls because they're too
"interesting". Your brain would be trying to listen to them. You don't
want it that interesting.
In Europe (at least in our office), they call this "Pink Noise". Go
figure!
Russel
Chirs Greenman on mon 27 jan 03
There are times when music in the studio is an important part of the
experience and also times when silence is also needed and cherished. I like
music that alows me to dream into.... I just downloaded the Allman Brothers
Band New Years concert from 1973... Hey Dickie Betts, Greg Alaman and the
rest man... that is great...just takes you away--5 disks of jamming. I also
listen to Greatful Dead, Anything Garcia, Ratdog, Peter Rowan, Old and in
The Way, Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith, many other folk musicians...I miss good
radio...its all so comercial and stagnant on the radio now... I am wondering
how to get a copy of the Rolling Stones recent HBO special live from Madison
square garden... now that needs to be in the studio.
Blues seem to well with clay...
Chris
Alistair Gillies on mon 27 jan 03
Hi,
BBC radio 4 and 5
I prefer listening to talking rather than music and switch between these
two, the only presenter that I would actively tune to is Peter Allen -
BBC Five Live 5.00 - 7.00 pm GMT who puts an English irony onto his
presenting of news and sport, red neck talk show he is not.
An impressive number of people listen to trad folk music - my other
occupation is running a recording studio specialising in recording
traditional based music.
Alistair Gillies
Shropshire, England
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Dean Walker on tue 28 jan 03
I am surprised nobody listens to Lynard Skynard....FREE BIRD !!!! We
listened to that and Cream, Blue Cheer, Who...and a little diddy by a one hit
wonder named Mason Williams....CLASSICAL GAS.
Dean
Class OF '70
Philip Poburka on tue 28 jan 03
Too, it depends on the Work...
For me, music gets into my memory - even if usually
unremembered - of the thing I was working on...
Or I have found it so, when, years later, I look at or touch
something I had made years before, and if there had been
music when
making it, I will hear it (again)...
There are some little Clay heads I made in a night school
Sculpture Class in the early '70s.
Recently I ran across them...and...could 'hear' Country Joe
and the Fish's "The Masked Marauder" (as had been on a
little turntable in the sculpture Studio way back then...)
Too, when I was putting in my centralized Vacuum system here
in my shop in 1986, I was playing Kate Bush "The Big Sky"
during some of it...and if I am getting some tools off the
shelf where that section of the vacuum pipeing is, I will
hear it.
I think this just goes on forever, this kind of
thing...usually I do not pay much attention to it.
There is so much not-now of 'now'...or the now of
not-now...that I keep most of that attention pulled in I
suppose.
If 'Billy Pilgrim' had not secured the finincial page with
his Optometry ( back in 'Illium', if memory serve) he'd have
maybe kept it pulled in a mite more himself I think...
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mildred Herot"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: what are you listening to in your studio??
I usually put the classical radio station on and let er rip.
Of course,
sometimes they play music to commit suicide to but, then,
one can't have
everything can they.....Mildred Herot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles and Linda Riggs"
To:
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: what are you listening to in your studio??
> Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, Loreena
McKennitt, Danish
language tapes,
> "Fire Songs Collection" put together by Lyla Kaplan for
our wood-firing
parties
> (thanks again Lyla), and of course, NPR.
> Linda
>
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kruzewski on tue 28 jan 03
I have BBC radio 4 on all day That's public service broadcasting at it's
best. From lots of news and current affairs, Woman's Hour every morning,
Afternoon play every afternoon, comedy programs of all sorts, The Archers,
which is a 10 minute "soap" about a farming community at 2pm every day. At
the end of the day, on the odd occasion I'm working at mid night the
shipping forcast is so evocative. I imagine all those boats out on the dark
sea all around these islands, tiny dots of light bobbing on the sea. Some of
our coastal areas have the most amazing names! For me Radio 4 is company all
day long .
But sometimes when things are not going right with the throwing I need to
sing along really loud to something I love. John Denver, Annie Lennox/
Eurythmycs, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues Greatest Hits. The tension I can let go
squarking at the top of my voice. Good job we have no near neighbours -
they'd think I was either being slaughtered or barking mad.
Avril and I swap BBC comedy tapes - lots of good gentle comedy keeps me
relaxed and smiling, and books on tape. Bridget Jones keeps me in the studio
a good long time.
Sometimes I don't put anything on at all. The river noise can be all I want
when I'm really absorbed.
Jacqui
Windy North Wales.
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