In the play, an old man celebrates his 69th birthday by sorting through boxes full of ancient tape recordings, trying to reconcile his memories of events with actual notes that he has scribbled on an old ledger.
A small, singular, delightful collection of 26 essays by a music freak, each devoted to one or two pop recordings, trying to cope with the power of songs to bind people culturally and to reach deeply into the human spirit, bending the heart into new shapes with new potentials.
Dan took a series of field recordings, trying to capture the sound-world of the holloways – but on returning to the Chideock lane this spring, he found that its hedges had been flailed, its floor churned up by ATV tracks, and builders' rubble had been dumped in its lower reaches.
The Luxembourg Philharmonic is alert and agile but lacks the depths of the best recordings (try Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
The most headline-grabbing of all the ways prosecutors said Mr. Blagojevich tried to make money for official acts: He had, in stunningly salty, crass language caught on the recordings, tried to get a better job, a cabinet post, a big campaign donation in exchange for Mr. Obama's old Senate seat.
If you really like an artist's recordings, try to figure out how much is real and how much is engineered, before you decide that "you can never sound as good as that!" Following these steps, you should be able to make gradual improvements in your singing, especially if you have found the right teacher to work with.
A Deutsche Grammophon blurb describes Victoria as "a towering composer whose works glow with the passion and vibrant tonal palette of El Greco," presumably the case these recordings are trying to make.
By Carolyn Kormann September 3, 2015 Bernie Krause likens the single-species paradigm in biodiversity recordings to "trying to understand the magnificence of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by abstracting the sound of a single violin".
During a three-hour session at the home studio of an assistant produce buyer whom Whole Foods hired to make the recordings, Jones tried more than thirty versions of the word "register" and three variations on each number.
"I didn't realize that punk and hardcore were a community," Yates says, and, as friends sent him links to recordings, he tried to piece together the music's history.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 — It's an annoying quirk of fame that has riled everyone from Taylor Hicks to Kanye West: when new recording talents break through, they are often faced with the threat that an owner of their old, unpolished recordings will try to ride their coattails and package the music for a quick buck.
