these notes<\/a> in his position as scribe: “…with everyone around, T.V., radio museum. Fiske boats and evening traffic throbbing about. We sat in rapt attention. Chocolate and caffeine hardly noticeable this late in the day. Underground people.”<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n
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Recording notes: I didn’t like the sound of the DAT I used to record the nuns in Nepal, so I brought an analog Nagra reel-to-reel tape deck. I used two Neumann U-87s with the Nagra.<\/p>\r\n
I was looking for advice on microphones from a friend and he said, “I never heard a good recording of a violin that didn’t have a lot of the room in the sound.”\u00a0 \u00a0I found that to be true with the hardangfele. I put one microphone close to Knut, and one about 20 feet away in the church. This worked well, so we used the same approach with Marc’s drums and my guitars. We used very little EQ or reverb in the mix, and kept the recording chain analog all the way to the end. I’m not an analog purist, but the medium seemed to suit the music.<\/p>\r\n
I did a lot of gong sampling in Bali. The school I worked for there has a Balinese Gamelan orchestra, and when time permitted I would drag each instrument into my room and work late into the night to get good stereo samples of it. My room was right on a rice paddy, and I did most of my sampling at night, so that’s why you can hear insect sounds in some of the samples. It wasn’t my intention to be overly pastoral, though the bugs twittering and frogs croaking seems to fit in some places.<\/p>\r\n
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In 1976 I had a job in a record store in St. Paul. One of my co-workers was a guy named Morrey Nellis. He became director of intramural athletics at Macalester College where I used to go for a run every now and then. In 1990 or ’91 he gave me a tape of Hardingfele music saying, “Listen to this.” He got it from his wife who was director of the Hardingfele Society of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[10,12,27,50,52,60,72],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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