The "Environments" series.....
Sep. 28th, 2010 04:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1Many years ago, at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, I happened across a series of albums I have grown to love. They were called "Environments", created by Syntonic Research Inc. and released on Atlantic Records. They were field recordings of nature sounds, that filled entire sides of an album. The series has spawned many similar recordings, including Dan Gibson's "Solitudes" series.
In my years of collecting LPs, cassettes, and CDs, I picked up a few of these recordings, including "The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore", "Thunderstorm", and "Tintinnabulation" (a recording of bells slowed down). And for years, I've been wondering how many records/cassettes/CDs were released in the series.
I could certainly use one of those recordings right now, to soothe me back to sleep. About an hour ago, a garbage truck came by and emptied a dumpster. Why this has to be done in the middle of the night is beyond me.
So tonight, I searched on "Syntonic Research discography". The results were sparse. Syntonic Research does not have a web presence. But I found
a page on Wikipedia with a complete -- or as complete as could be determined -- discography. There were 11 LPs, 14-16 cassettes (2 are believed to be unissued), and 3 CDs released. I have the three CDs, three of the cassettes, and as far as I could remember, none of the albums.
I also checked EBay, and there are vendors there who have some of the albums and cassettes for sale. Hopefully they'll still be there next month, when I should have a little more disposable income.
In my years of collecting LPs, cassettes, and CDs, I picked up a few of these recordings, including "The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore", "Thunderstorm", and "Tintinnabulation" (a recording of bells slowed down). And for years, I've been wondering how many records/cassettes/CDs were released in the series.
I could certainly use one of those recordings right now, to soothe me back to sleep. About an hour ago, a garbage truck came by and emptied a dumpster. Why this has to be done in the middle of the night is beyond me.
So tonight, I searched on "Syntonic Research discography". The results were sparse. Syntonic Research does not have a web presence. But I found
a page on Wikipedia with a complete -- or as complete as could be determined -- discography. There were 11 LPs, 14-16 cassettes (2 are believed to be unissued), and 3 CDs released. I have the three CDs, three of the cassettes, and as far as I could remember, none of the albums.
I also checked EBay, and there are vendors there who have some of the albums and cassettes for sale. Hopefully they'll still be there next month, when I should have a little more disposable income.
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Date: 2010-09-28 01:31 pm (UTC)http://www.swapacd.com/forum/forum.php?f=26
Its a side feature of a Paperback/CD/DVD swapping site a friend of mine uses. (They have been mostly giving books away and getting me a few DVDs.)