Hello! Quick update – the New York Times recently ran an article featuring one of my father’s unreleased rainfall recordings in New York City’s urban landscape. This is exciting as one of my father’s dreams was to be featured in the New York Times for a second time. The New[…]
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We’re proud to announce that Environments is finally available as a standalone app for your iPhone and iPad. (An Android compatible version is also in development.) This simple and easy to use app features all of Irv Teibel’s original Environments recordings, some in longer versions than ever heard before. All[…]
“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” – Henry Beston, writer and naturalist It’s a beautiful sunny day as I sit down to write this article. Despite the[…]
As a quadraphonic enthusiast, collector and somewhat of a historian, I didn’t know what to expect when I reached out to Syntonic Research. I wanted to get information about the hardware and processes used to make the quadraphonic mixes on the Environments series and The Erickson Tapes. To my surprise,[…]
One chilly October evening in 1972, in the High Sierras of California, a group waited around a fire for an elusive sound. They had set up camp at 8,500 feet on a forested hillside above a small spring and creek. Fifteen feet uphill, they had taped a Sony TC-126 recorder[…]