A TRIBUTE TO LUDWIG KOCH...

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Libraries were my life...

Yes boss, in my teenage years, when all the rest of you spritely young things were out and about whooping it up with members of the opposite (or same) sex, I, Paul Giovanni £rd was spending time in one or the other of my local libraries...

Why??

Well, because there was lots of books magazines and a bit of peace and quiet in libraries - and in the Eastleigh library there were also records...

Now in those dimly distant days, musical records didn't excite me quite as much as they do now. No boss, back then, I got really excited about sound effects records and those containing animal noises...


This isn't a joke.

My best friend Sandeep Jadav first drew my attention to the existance of these kind of records.

One day he brought in a BBC Horror sound effects. I believe it was Volume 2. It contained things like the sound of 4 people dying in a lift shaft, and at playtimes, we would play these tapes through his Sony walkman time and time again, marvelling at the sounds of the screaming etc and wondering how on earth such recordings were made..


Well, when Sandeep left us proles to go to top public school Winchester College, I was left without any copies of these records, but I soon found that Eastleigh library had a very good selection of such records and I borrowed them many times, before finally buying most of them when they were discharged from the library when vinyl was discontinued as a lending format...


I mention this now because I've just been listening to A Salute to Ludwig Koch

Ludwig Koch was a pioneer of field recordings of birds and nature in particular.

In Ludwigs day, this was a proper mission. There were no tape recorders, let alone portable ones and Ludwigs dedication and enthusiasm in undertaking his work is tangible throughout the over/interview of his life and career that fills Side A of this fine LP...

Side B features a selection of his finest recordings and some of them are completely fucking incredible!!

Yes boss, nothing will prepare you for the sounds of Rabbits screaming blue murder, the sublime and suggestive cooing of Eider Ducks on the mate or the plain fucking madness of the chitter chatter of a Gibbon...

So, if you seriously consider yourself a fan of sound and you haven't already got a bunch, you need to get yourself a decent collection of animal noises on vinyl without any kind of delay...

Currently listening : Quiet Fire By Roberta Flack Release date: By 15 September, 1992

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	Renate	Whale tunes, and other deep sea noises, are pretty good...and so is the amplified sound of our cat purring, which I've started listening to through a stethoscope placed on his tiny ribcage... I like the sound of Sandeep... Posted by Renate on Friday, December 28, 2007 at 23:56 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Sandeep was fiercely intelligent and very sharp. His then ambition was to become a divorce lawyer in New York where he would own a Porsche 911... Mrs G wants a cat. A friend of a friend of hers has this litter of kittens and all have been taken except one little mutant with bent paws - she thinks we should give the little cripple a home... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 00:04 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	La Paloma, the Queen of Infinity	yes! get the cat. there is also the sandpaper sound of the cat licking you or the click clack claw sharpening... Posted by La Paloma, the Queen of Infinity on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 11:42 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	When I have the vast ranch I'll have more animals than Dr Doolittle - but in a flat?!? Is that really wise??? Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 12:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Renate	I still like the sound of Sandeep. Posted by Renate on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 00:42 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Renate	I have contacts in Mi5 (and google)...http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/25a/814 [Re-posted as a blog comment, as per Paul Giovanni 3rd's instructions] PS. Good luck with the crippled cat - puke and shit everywhere, sleepless nights... Posted by Renate on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 01:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	As I said in the message... FUCKING HELL!!! There he is.. I think I might send him a photo of my embalmed piranha fish Trevor - Sandeep loved Piranhas... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 01:17 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	dirty snowflake	yes! Rabbits scream crazy and scary. Love the audio gem soundscapes. Posted by dirty snowflake on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 00:07 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Who'd have thought the little furry fuckers had it in them to be so vicious sounding..?! I used to have a rabbit - she was called Rabelina and she never screamed though she was thoroughly fucking mental. Watch her headbut the camera in thie here vid... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 00:47 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Renate	Posted by Renate on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 02:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Katie	My parent's cats proper wail. It's quite chilling and quite frankly constitutes emotional blackmail. Probably what them rabbits were doing when they saw a kind bloke in a nice wooly jumper hanging around. Posted by Katie on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 17:55 [Remove] [Reply to this]

: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Maybe Ludwig was squeezing them? Or showing them a picture of a fox or maybe a video of Nigella Lawson making a rabbit pie??? Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 18:09 [Remove] [Reply to this]