Excerpts from J bz's message of 2010-05-06 11:17:22 +0200: > Hey again, > > Thanks a lot to everyone for weighing in with this, really interesting > stuff. > > I guess the kind of term I'm looking for is something that would make it > obvious to a 'lay' person, what the individual who has a more creative > approach to the desk does. Which I think would then widen the concept that > there is more to the use of the mixer and associated goodies than creating > what is a simulcrum of a recording. Within the dub fraternity there is > already appreciation of that role but I feel it's a little too genre > specific. 'Mass controller' is a great phrase though I would have to say > that M.C. is surely Master of Ceremonies originally? > > Within contemporary classical music there are some fantastic parts within > scores for the mixer and associated fx though they are always (so far in my > research) titled for the objects rather than an individual. Stockhausen and > Trevor Wishart being 2 good examples. > > There is also an educational aspect for me to this. I, as I am sure are > many other people, somewhat concerned about the exponential rise in places > within higher education for sound engineers and the number of studios that > are closing down. Will most trainee sound engineers experience of running a > serious desk only come from coursework? I like the idea that it should be > possible to expand musical horizons in many directions and that many people > who do music tech should view this as creative training rather than > technical. My experience is that many people come into these courses via > making music rather than a background of maths and physics, so why shoehorn > individuals into roles they aren't suited too? I'm wandering and thinking > aloud here:) > > Could this just be titled as 'live producer'? > > Cheers again, I'm finding this all fascinating. > > Very best wishes, > > Jb I've asked a friend of mine who's doing that kind of thing for sound safari (http://www.myspace.com/mysticrootssoundsafari) and he doesn't know of a specific name. He'd call it 'Toningeneur' or 'sound engineer' or maybe something with dub, but that's genre-specific again. HTH -- Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
