Thanks!
The notes for the disc are interesting:
"This album is about place and about music in particular places, not just
the music I play but the entire soundscape. First places because they are
womb-like or generative: the depths of a cave, an empty church, the wet
fecundity of a frog pond."
This was the idea that was at the edge of my mind but I wasn't quite
conceptualizing...
it seems to me that the music is best when it is part of a natural
environment hence the mind's wish for "flutesongs rainy nights"... a "too
clean" studio environment might not be the best ambience... the bigger
picture (soundscape in this case) may be more appropriate...
I think that Paul Horn does a lot of this kind of thing with a different
kind of flute... I remember hearing the mosquitoes at the Taj Mahal... ;*}
We don't need to go overboard with this... but it's nice (dare I say less
egotistical?) to allow the world to leak in somehow... ;*)
Brett Breitwieser ( brett@bigskyranch.us) <mailto:brett@bigskyranch.us)>
"Crazy Cloud likes his own mind
its wish for flutesongs rainy nights,
drinking muttering beside his women..." (Ikkyu)
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Ritchie [mailto:nemo2000@att.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:01 AM
To: shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
Subject: shakuhachi recording with animal sounds
>
Phil James has a recording "First Places" that has a song accompanied
by frogs.
http://www.sparklingbeatnik.com/sb.cgi/0030.html
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:46:52 -0700
> From: "Brett Breitwieser" <brett@bigskyranch.us>
> To: <Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: RE: recording shakuhachi
> Message-ID: <CIEKJMMNDHBOILPKNBOIOEMGCDAA.brett@bigskyranch.us>
>
> I remember listening to one of John Neptune's recordings (recorded at
> his
> "home studio", a dome in Japan) and hearing crickets chirping in the
> background... great...
>
> This morning I was sitting zazen and I always turn the fans off even
> here in
> Arizona, as it is not recommended to sit in a breeze when sitting...
> as is
> my habit I played a few notes on the shak before I sat and between
> sitting
> periods... I noticed a mourning dove outside started responding to my
> playing... very nice...
>
> I would really like to hear a recording of shakuhachi with unobtrusive
> "nature sounds" in the background... anyone know of any?
>
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