Interesting: Here’s another update on the project. Only two things things I can really comment on and that’s the clicking at the beginning of the track. I have no idea where it comes from but it soon disappears and the other thing to mention is that this weeks recording is interestingly, unlike previous weeks, the whole track. The needle didn’t lose its tracking and skip over the grooves like it has done for a few weeks. Which is strange, as after time I expected this to get worse. But of course this just shows that this project is determined by chance theory and therefore can’t totally be controlled by the artist. Because the connection between the audio (the record) and the receiver (the needle) can be broken with something as simple as a heavy footstep the whole process of listening to a record can and inevitably will be altered every time the user listens back to a recording.
Here’s a picture of the waveforms again, the top waveform is of November 8th and the bottom is today’s recording. The volume levels have dropped considerably in the second and as you can see at the beginning represented by the thin lines that are rising out of the waveform there’s plenty of surface noise.
