Section 03
Sources
Shellac, location tape, and where material comes from. Where a provenance is unclear it is left unstated rather than guessed.
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Shellac
78rpm discs are loud, narrow-band and full of surface noise, and all three are material rather than defects.
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Surface noise
The crackle as a layer with its own rhythm.
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Field recording
Going out with a recorder and coming back with time rather than a sound.
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Wind and handling
The two things that ruin a location take, and the physical fixes.
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Provenance
Knowing where a fragment came from, and why the archive records it.