[CAUT] Grieg Experiment

[Ron Poire]

I hope you can send more info on the current technology.  It would be fun to apply it to 78's made after electrical recording came into being in 1923.  

Ron Poire 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Brekne 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 3:54 PM
  Subject: [CAUT] Grieg Experiment


  Hi Fred and all interested.

  Glad you liked it.  I thought it was really cool myself and am very much looking forward to the CD.  I should mention the sound of Griegs piano as played by Mr. Slåttebrekk is raw mic sound.  This was just a tidbit the producer sent me to let me get an idea of how we all did getting this old lady to sound, and how well the project as a whole is going.  I thought the piano sounded very well indeed... bringing it down to 436 helped enormously. I wish you all could have heard up close and personal the difference this pitch change made. 

  I also want to echo your sentiments about Sigurds ability to match Edvards style.  Again.. sitting and watching them at work... they picked the old digitized wax roles apart phrase by phase.  The piece you heard was about 3 days work.  The final CD will be about 30 minutes of music I believe.  We were all out there for 4 weeks in the late fall and another 2 weeks in Jan / Feb.  They also have done some work in Oslo on a D, but I am unsure as to whether they will use the material from there.  They fell in love with Edvards instrument.  

  I dont know exactly what kind of processes were used to digitize the wax rolls.  I just know there is another method being used then what was used on the files we had available and that this other method is supposed to be quite superior.  I can get Tony to write a bit about that and forward it along I think... if you all are interested.

  Anyways... cool you all found it enjoyable.  It was/is probably the most enjoyable project I've ever had the privilege  to be a part of.

  Cheers
  RicB


    Hi Ric,

    Fascinating! Amazing job of matching both style of playing and timber of the instrument. It certainly sounds convincingly like a re-creation from the past. Do you know to what extent the digitized version of the wax cylinder recording was manipulated electronically, if at all? (I guess there is bound to be some manipulation, even if not intentional, in the mechanical process of cylinder to needle to "trumpet" and then placement of mikes and setting gain and whatnot).

    Regards,
    Fred Sturm
    University of New Mexico
    fssturm at unm.edu
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