analogsurviver
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Yes, on all 3 counts.Analogsurvivor, I asked a very simple and direct question, and for some reason you are not answering it simply and directly. I'm not interested in randomly sampling output from various labels. I don't want to be pointed in a direction or have to mine through threads full of other people's recommendations. I don't want organ music with heavy cathedral ambience muddling up the binaural effect. And I'm not interested in bleeding chunks "demonstration samplers". All I want to know is...
Do you have an orchestral or chamber music recording in your own collection that you can recommend that you think is 1) a good composition, 2) a good performance of it, and 3) a good recording in effective and realistic binaural?
The only problem is that I no longer own these recordings and/or am not at liberty to distribute them to a third party. I could post 30 seconds ( or whatever is allowed according to law to pass as sampler, without infringing any rights ) - but that is, effectively, too short to demonstrate the recording properly.
My very first ever ( binaural or otherwise ) recording released commercially was of the female choir Čarnice titled "Še ptičice so snivale" ( also in a more phonetically proper version as seen in the link ) ( roughly translated: When Birds Still Dreamed ) - with arrangements of slovenian folk songs ( in numerous dialects ) by the composer Ambrož Čopi. It got issued as release with both original binaural and "translation" for loudspeaker version - as double CD. Recorded originally to a heavily modified CD-R, 12 years ago. That "translation" has been done without my presence and consent, while still frenetically searching for the best sounding device or procedure to make binaural enjoyable also on speakers. The solution did arrive eventually, but would have postponed the release of the album far too much. Here the title song of the album :
No other subsequent binaural releases with which I would be truly satisfied have been released so far - which is not to say that none are in the works or planned. The biggest issue that still needs to be worked on is the proper diferentiation of the front to back localization. Recent trend(s) in vocal music is to work with the "spatialized" choir; instead of the usual two positions of the choir in a church ( either on the choir ( organ ) or in front/behind of the altar ), the singers are dispersed across the entire floor of the church, with the conductor being in or close to the centre of the church floor. Soloist(s) ( both vocal and instrumental ) might/may be not only in the same flloor, at whatever angle from the conductor, but also displaced in vertical direction - with some compositions tailor-made to the architecture of a certain church. The position of both the choir and the solists can be, but usually is not, static - sometimes, a whole ritual ,including procession(s), is taking place - further adding to the challenge of the recording engineer.
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