Re: Pete speaks.............

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

so - what did he say?
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
To: <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: Pete speaks.............


> But what did he say...
>
>
> keets
>
> Harmony and understanding
> Sympathy and trust abounding
> No more falsehoods or derisions
> Golden living dreams of visions
> Mystic crystal revelation
> And the mind's true liberation,
> Aquarius, Aquarius.
>
>   -James Rado & Gerome Ragni
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>
> >Reply-To: thewho@igtc.com
> >To: <thewho@igtc.com>
> >Subject: Pete speaks.............
> >Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:25:47 -0500
> >
> >New Pete diary!
> >Kevin in VT
> >
> >27 March 2003   <<ole0.bmp>>
> >I am a great fan of 5.1 Surround Sound for movies. In fact, DVD has made
a
> >movie buff of me - I was once quite indifferent to films other than those
> >regarded as great art. Now I often watch movies purely for fun, and
> >especially
> >to hear the efforts put into creating the elegant and complex soundtracks
> >required for DVD. If you too love DVD you might look out for the 5.0
> >version
> >of Ken Russell's movie of Tommy recently restored and remixed for DVD.
The
> >restoration team did a great job. Tommy was the first simple 5 channel
film
> >ever made (Fantasia and other such specialist movies set the standard of
> >course). But Tommy was mixed as a 'Quintaphonic' film - five speakers.
The
> >system didn't catch on, and eventually Dolby Surround and DTS and Dolby
> >Digital took over. Now 5.1 Surround is available for music only releases.
> >I am personally mixing the original Who's Tommy album now, and I think it
> >has
> >never sounded better than in this multi-channel format. The commercial
> >formats
> >for audio in Surround are SACD and DVD-A. If you are buying home
hardware,
> >you
> >might wait a while for a machine that will play both audio formats as
well
> >as
> >all the present DVD video formats. I hear rumours that some U.S car
> >companies
> >plan to install 5.1 DVD-A players in new cars in future. That would be
> >impressive - a car is an almost perfect environment for Surround Sound.
In
> >the
> >DVD-A format there is opportunity to add quite a bit of additional visual
> >supportive material. Surround Sound actually has 6 speakers. The '.1' is
a
> >bass woofer. The main speakers are arrayed around the listener in a quite
> >obvious way - two stereo front speakers (L and R), one in the middle (C),
> >and
> >two surround speakers Ls and Rs) which are placed towards the side of the
> >room, a little in the back - not completely behind the listener. The bass
> >woofer can go anywhere handy, even under a bed or under the floor.The
> >orchestral session here is an audophile recording I've made in purist 5.1
> >for
> >DVD-A and SACD release. It features the London Chamber Orchestra who
played
> >on
> >the Sadler's Well's concert and the Lifehouse Chronicles orchestral CD.
The
> >Sadler's Wells DVD won an award for Surround Sound.
> >The Oceanic studio here is one I've had since 1976 - it began life as a
> >center
> >for Meher Baba and spent some of its time subsequently as a film studio.
> >Now I
> >use it for recording and of course for events for my web site. (The Who
> >rehearsal featuring the last performance with John Entwistle was recorded
> >and
> >filmed there). For this session I created a system to fly artificial
> >reverberation and echo into the studio so that the musicians would feel
as
> >though they were playing in a concert hall. We used a very high quality
> >system
> >based around several units provided by the sponsors of the last Who
tour -
> >JBL
> >(owned and distributed by Harman-Kardom). The reverb was generated by
> >several
> >mikes spread throughout the orchestra, mixed and fed into a Lexicon
reverb
> >unit. The outputs of that were fed into a seven channel pre-amplifier
(also
> >made by Lexicon) seven channels were 'synthsized' creating a delicate but
> >expansive echo effect and thence fed to seven JBL 'Tik' speakers - two of
> >which were placed above the orchestra's heads to give a feeling of
height.
> >The
> >amplifiers used are also made by JBL. To record the orchestra I used a
> >British
> >microphone called the 'Soundfield' mike. This mike outputs four cleverly
> >encoded channels that can later be decoded and arranged as the six
channels
> >for 5.1. I recorded these channels to ProTools HD at 192Khz.
> >The music is from Scarlatti. He wrote sonatas and fugues, principally for
> >Harpsichord. I felt that some of them would sound beautiful if arranged
for
> >chamber orchestra (I included two sonatas on the Lifehouse Chronicles).
> >This
> >time I commissioned Rachel Fuller to orchestrate another twelve. Some of
> >them
> >are more successful than others - Scarlatti's gift was not as abundant as
> >Bach's, but he did know how to compose powerfully strident pieces for the
> >harpsichord, an instrument with little dynamic range. Orchestral
> >translations
> >of harpsichord works introduce dynamics that can sometimes distract from
> >the
> >composer's original intentions. We were careful not to overdo the
dynamics
> >with over-emotional readings. The session was a great success. The
Surround
> >Sound effect from the Soundfield mike is solid as a rock, and you can
> >really
> >feel the intimacy of the studio, but the airy space generated by the
> >artificial echo. Some of Scarlatti's writing crosses boundaries: at times
> >it
> >is Italianate Baroque, as it should be. At others it is slightly Germanic
> >and
> >dark: the Fugues are often quite aggressive. Then there are segments when
> >you
> >can hear an almost pastoral English sound similar to that of the British
> >composers of the 20th Century like Grainger, Britten and Bax. I was
really
> >pleased with the session and I hope to get it released very soon.The
> >production was for Angelic Ceilings - a company I formed for Lifehouse
> >Chronicles to record aspirational works - in other words to finish grand
> >and
> >adventurous 'serious' music projects I have the money and vision to
start,
> >but
> >not the stamina or qualifications to properly finish. Billy Nicholls
> >arranged
> >the session, and Sara Lowenthal wrote out the parts and assisted in the
> >session.
> >Pete. March 27 2003
> >(Video to follow - Matt)
> >
> >[demime 1.01b removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of
> >ole0.bmp]
>
>
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