source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:39:50 -0800 Subject: Re: Post from McLaren From: bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Bill Schottstaedt) > Over speakers, much of a xenharmonic > composition like William Schottstaedt's > "Water Music" is either inaudible or > ear-shattering...yet the same composition > becomes clearly audible when heard > over headphones. When I was working on this and other related pieces, I was using the Samson box here at CCRMA connected to a relatively low-fidelity quad speaker setup in a room next to the old Lab's machine room (this was the (end of the) era of enormous air-conditioned machines). The thing sounded great in that environment. Then we played it in a concert in very reverberant room in S.F. and it sounded like mush. Then later it got put on CD, and I listened at home in my kitchen, and decided it needed to be compressed, so the latest version has a much smaller dynamic range, less reverb, less noise, but maybe lost some of the exuberance. Rats. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:17 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09141; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 20:19:24 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09136 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id LAA26831; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:19:20 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:19:20 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu