R3 Unwind

[BerkshireCynth]

Lovely idea. Shame about the chatter and inane platitudes. But maybe they're to wind us up so the music can unwind us again.

[french frank]

Lovely idea. Shame about the chatter and inane platitudes. But maybe they're to wind us up so the music can unwind us again.

Welcome, BC. "Chatter and inane platitudes"? Some people here might consider you were being a little too kind!

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/classical-forum/playlist-programmes/1322064-radio-3-unwind-starts-on-the-4th-of-november/page5

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely idea. Shame about the chatter and inane platitudes. But maybe they're to wind us up so the music can unwind us again.

A big welcome to the forum from me, too!

[Roger Webb]

................... chatter and inane platitudes............................

.........................welcome to the Forum!!!!

[french frank]

There used to be (maybe still is) an 8-hour YouTube video of a train chuffing comfortably through the countryside, uninterrupted by anything more than the occasional gentle woo-woo of a whistle. White noise might equally well help people to unwind, relax or sleep. Why devalue art for the benefit of people who don't appreciate it for what it is? And why connect it with Radio 3?

[Serial_Apologist]

There used to be (maybe still is) an 8-hour YouTube video of a train chuffing comfortably through the countryside, uninterrupted by anything more than the occasional gentle woo-woo of a whistle. White noise might equally well help people to unwind, relax or sleep. Why devalue art for the benefit of people who don't appreciate it for what it is? And why connect it with Radio 3?

I have recently been discovering Youtube recordings lasting several hours of rain accompanied by thunder for the use of insomniacs, specially curated by someone who has obviously dangled a mike out of a bedroom window. They would have had to wait for "the right kind of thunderstorm" - namely those storms in which thunder rolls around softly at great heights, with no sudden bangs. Perhaps any thunderbolts have been edited out!

[Roger Webb]

I have recently been discovering Youtube recordings lasting several hours of rain accompanied by thunder for the use of insomniacs, specially curated by someone who has obviously dangled a mikre out of a bedroom window. They would have had to wait for "the right kind of thunderstorm" - namely those storms in which thunder rolls around softly at great heights, with no sudden bangs. Perhaps any thunderbolts have been edited out!

No need for that YouTube recording here (Wye Valley, nr Symonds Yat), we've had the real thing - but it might have been useful to edit out the thunderbolt! The one that 'rolls around softly at great heights' sounds like the 'right kind of thunderstorm' to me!

Edit. BTW. One of the most realistic thunderstorms on a recording is that on Alan Parsons' The fall of the House of Usher on his Tales of Mystery and imagination Lp. For this he recorded Debussy's 'Chute de la Maison Usher', which he punctuates with above mentioned storm, which apparently he recorded in the alleyway at the side of the studio...it's amazingly realistic - in the same way that the sound effects on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon are
......cash registers, clocks etc. (Parsons won a Grammy for this engineering). An interesting thing is that he got Decca's Gordon Parry to engineer the orchestra, and this is a tremendous recording.

[vinteuil]

I have recently been discovering Youtube recordings lasting several hours of rain accompanied by thunder for the use of insomniacs, specially curated by someone who has obviously dangled a mike out of a bedroom window. They would have had to wait for "the right kind of thunderstorm" - namely those storms in which thunder rolls around softly at great heights, with no sudden bangs. Perhaps any thunderbolts have been edited out!

... possibly from the tropics. In Cameroon we had thunderstorms of a rolling kind that went on for hours, with sheet lightning, cloud-to-cloud lightning, and relentless rain

[oddoneout]

There used to be (maybe still is) an 8-hour YouTube video of a train chuffing comfortably through the countryside, uninterrupted by anything more than the occasional gentle woo-woo of a whistle. White noise might equally well help people to unwind, relax or sleep. Why devalue art for the benefit of people who don't appreciate it for what it is? And why connect it with Radio 3?

https://norwegianarts.org.uk/slow-tv/

I've watched the country bus, the reindeer herding, and a sheep gathering that I can remember. Oh, and a train journey but not the Norwegian one.

[Roger Webb]

https://norwegianarts.org.uk/slow-tv/

I've watched the country bus, the reindeer herding, and a sheep gathering that I can remember.

Either the BBC or Channel 4 did a narrowboat navigating the Kennet and Avon Canal from Bath in real time....I know this canal very well, as I moored in Bristol Docks over winter and every year took the boat up to Reading and then either up or down the Thames usually ending up in the Paddington Arm (off Little Venice) late summer behind Praed St for a Proms season! Caen Hill flight of Locks twice a year keeps you fit!

[Serial_Apologist]

No need for that YouTube recording here (Wye Valley, nr Symonds Yat), we've had the real thing - but it might have been useful to edit out the thunderbolt! The one that 'rolls around softly at great heights' sounds like the 'right kind of thunderstorm' to me!

Edit. BTW. One of the most realistic thunderstorms on a recording is that on Alan Parsons' The fall of the House of Usher on his Tales of Mystery and imagination Lp. For this he recorded Debussy's 'Chute de la Maison Usher', which he punctuates with above mentioned storm, which apparently he recorded in the alleyway at the side of the studio...it's amazingly realistic - in the same way that the sound effects on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon are
......cash registers, clocks etc. (Parsons won a Grammy for this engineering). An interesting thing is that he got Decca's Gordon Parry to engineer the orchestra, and this is a tremendous recording.

There was a mid-70s work by Tim Souster, premiered at the Proms iirc, which used Pink Floyd's cash register loops, then brilliantly transforming them into machine gun fire. But getting back to uses of thunder in post production musique concret inserts I can think of two - one in a piece by the Canadian post-Minimalist Jon Hassell, another in one of Django Bates's Delightful Precipice collaborative pieces from the 1990s. I will have to check which ones tomorrow and edit them into this post. There are probably many more besides the one's you've also mentioned, Roger. Berlioz might perhaps be considered the originator of the notion in Symphonie fantastique!

[Serial_Apologist]

Either the BBC or Channel 4 did a narrowboat navigating the Kennet and Avon Canal from Bath in real time....I know this canal very well, as I moored in Bristol Docks over winter and every year took the boat up to Reading and then either up or down the Thames usually ending up in the Paddington Arm (off Little Venice) late summer behind Praed St for a Proms season! Caen Hill flight of Locks twice a year keeps you fit!

You'd probably find a mooring space hard to find in the Paddington Basin these days, sadly. And the London Council is now intending upping the mooring rates to beyond what many who have chosen this hitherto relatively cheap living alternative to London's exorbitant rents will be able to afford, making narrow boat into yet another luxury lifestyle

[alywin]

I've come up with something I call Radio 3 Unwind bingo - every time it's mentioned on Radio 3, I turn the radio off. No idea whether it will register with anybody, but at least it stops me going bonkers.

[smittims]

I've been tickled by the inane remarks inthe trailer: after 'I needed the music that allowed me to feel what I was feeling', we have 'every time I hear that piece I breathe more slowly'. Right, so if we play it as often as 'Walking the Dog' or Alice Mary Smith's 'The Masque of Pandora' you'll stop breathing altogether...

[vinteuil]

... we have 'every time I hear that piece I breathe more slowly'.

... even worse : he says "Every time I hear that piece I breathe more slower"

A little mistake in English made by a non-native speaker is forgivable, even charming - once. When repeated several times a day....









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