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2022​.​12​.​03 F​/​A​-​18F Hornet. The Sound of the Brush Inking the Character 戦 in the Sky. Two Versions.

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2022.12.03 F/A-18F Hornet. The Sound of the Brush Inking the Character 戦 in the Sky. (Φ version) 07:00
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2022.12.03 F/A-18F Hornet. The Sound of the Brush Inking the Character 戦 in the Sky. (N version) 07:00
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↔ Ecology and Nature conservation ↔ Climate change and human energy management ↔ The human problem of war ↔

Technical notes: MKH 8020s AB 63 cm > MixPre-6 II. The jet was recorded at 96 kHz, 32-bit-float, with preamp gain at 45 dB. The maximum sample peak level was +33.27 dB. Since 32-bit-float recording provides virtually infinite headroom, there was no clipping; the waveforms are fully intact. However, to play the recording back at 24 bit depth, wave peaks must be reduced to 0 dB or less, because any peak above 0 dB will sound clipped. Normalising to 0 dB means that the highest peak is reduced to 0 dB: in this case, the entire recording - hence every wave peak - has to be reduced by -33.27 dB. The result is a fully intact recording, without any clipping. The problem is that the result just doesn't sound or feel anything like the actual sound event: it sounds, rather, as if the event were recorded from a great distance. Energy, proximity and viscerality are lost.

To regain a phenomenological realism, therefore, the normalised recording was loudness-adjusted; but increasing loudness naturally requires some degree of limiting to keep higher peaks at or below 0 dB and thus prevent the problem of clipping. There is definitely no clipping in the loudness-adjusted version; but, necessarily, there is some limiting. The overall result is far more phenomenologically faithful to the actual experience than is the merely normalised version. Which version a listener prefers may be a personal matter.

This album contains both versions: the loudness-adjusted or phenomenological (Φ) version, and the normalised (N) version (with normalisation to 0 dB).

Background for Japan Kanji of the Year 2022: www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c03833/

Credit for track image inset of Seihan Mori, chief priest of Kiyomizu Temple, painting the Kanji of the Year on December 12 in Kyoto: www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/12/1…022-kanji-war/

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released December 23, 2022

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