Klarinet Archive - Posting 000754.txt from 2003/10

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] "A little traveling music, Ray...."
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:08:18 -0500

At 04:15 PM 10/29/2003 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>Just out of curiosity:
>
>What quality in a recording makes it especially appropriate for
>travelling (vs. other listening venues)? Would, say, Tchaikovsky Piano
>Concerto #1 be more or less appropriate than, say, Burl Ives singing sea
>shanties?

Too much dynamic range (difference between the loudest and softest parts)
can be undesirable. Especially in a noisy car, the soft parts can disappear
under the noise and/or the loud parts blast your ears off. Much classical
music, especially recently recorded music on CD, is problematical that
way. OLD big band jazz and all rock is very much more compressed, so a
comfortable and relatively constant listening volume can be more readily
achieved.

Another possible thing to avoid when driving is music that is TOO
relaxing. I have a CD of Branford Marsalis playing French romantic music
on soprano sax. It is downright HYPNOTIC!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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