Video Blog! Vocal Recording – Part 2: Gear

March 23, 2011 by textile

Another dalliance with YouTube! Wherein I talk through the gear I use during a location recording session: DPA mics, Millennia Preamps, & Apogee Converters. Yum! Over+out.e.

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Postcard Audio #009 – Downtown Music Shop

February 27, 2011 by textile

A market music shop in downtown Shanghai selling tables of cheap electric keyboards, fiddles, Dizi flutes, drums and Erhus covered in snakeskin. Shoppers test the instruments with different levels of skill and enthusiasm. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in December 2002.

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Video Blog! Vocal Recording Session – Part 1: Session Setup

February 26, 2011 by textile

Well…. my first video blog… Wherein I describe how I set up microphones to record opera/ classical singers. Includes a run through of the space I record in, my multi-mic arrangement and a snippet of vocals from the upcoming single The Weeping Song (a suitably ambient operatic version …   Over+out.e.

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Textile Audio @ Refraction

February 23, 2011 by textile

The first Textile Audio gig for 2011 is upon us (yay!) and here are the details: REFRACTION Featuring: ANONYMEYE (bris) TEXTILE AUDIO MIKE MAJKOWSKI CASPAR JEFFREY & SHAUN PREMNATH 7.30pm, Wednesday 2nd March, 2011 Serial Space 33 Wellington Ave, Chippendale $10/$5 at the door ANONYMEYE (bris) Anonymeye, the nom de plume of Andrew Tuttle from [...]

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Postcard Audio #008 – Toys at the Market

February 12, 2011 by textile

Yuyuan Market, Shanghai: in the Old City a market is built around a 16th Century gardens and temple. Tourist stores are filled with lanterns, musical instruments, faux treasures and toys… Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in December 2002.

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Postcard Audio #007 – Opera in the Mall

January 28, 2011 by textile

Nanjing Road, Shanghai: People, department stores, lights, traffic. Cutting through and beyond, a soprano’s trill, amplified. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in November 2002.

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Postcard Audio #006 – Crickets in Cages

January 25, 2011 by textile

Shanghai city centre. Men are gathered with songbirds and tiny cages of crickets. Walking through conversations and urban rumble, the crickets’ chirrups and drones resonate…. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured in the same location of Postcard Audio #005 sometime in November 2002.

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Postcard Audio #005 – Songbirds in Shanghai

January 25, 2011 by textile

A small park in the centre of Shanghai city. Cars, people and industry surround. Gathered are men, mostly older but some young with intricate cages housing birds in song. Their tunes compete with the song of the city. Sometime in November 2002. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. ************************ A article [...]

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Performing Pomegranate Pt 2

January 9, 2011 by textile

A new year, a new website! Plans are afoot for more music, some video and even some cover songs. Until then here are, belatedly, pics from The Pomegranate Cycle Imagine Festival performance at the Cleveland St Theatre. [Show as slideshow] Images are stills from video footage taken by Oliver Heath, Ravi Glasser-Vora and Matt Burgess. [...]

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Performing Pomegranate Pt 1

October 26, 2010 by textile

We’re back from our BrisVegas and Sydney adventures and the proof is in the pictures… This is the Brisbane Festival gallery Going up to Brisbane from the Mountains, it’s about a 14hr drive cutting across Central-Western NSW from Mudgee – Gulgong, Dunedoo and Moree. The trip is spectacular, especially the canola fields… We passed big [...]

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