July 3rds
The other side of the year 7/3/1930 (Edward Weston Diary) Morning walk near Point Lobos with Becking. “The scientist and the artist coming together for the avowed purpose of getting each other’s viewpoint, on mutually exciting ground.” Songday Seed: How AI interprets it: 7/3/1999 WXRT Flashback to 1967. I love listening to this stuff, not so much that I enjoy the music itself, but rather, thinking about that particular time and what led people to write and record the way they did. Zawinul’s Mercy Mercy, Mercy (the live Recording): I wonder if the crowd noise was coached or added later like a laugh track. What was going on on the stage that the audience would react that way? (Idea: Add another layer on top of recorded tracks, such as live audience sounds, as a way to put the music in a different context). Hendrix’s Foxy Lady: Hard-panning The vocals, tracks left “dirty”mics left on—lots of bleed....
