Word: recordist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-fidelity" products as "high fidoodledy''), Cook spent a few rainy nights among the shunting yards of Harmon and Peekskill, N.Y. to record an LP called Rail Dynamics, whose clanking drivewheels and hissing steam valves are just about the most realistic sound effects in the business. For Recordist Cook, the disk represented an attitude. "The basic reason for serious records," says he, "is to preserve something ; a performance, a situation, a sound, an emotion." It also represented a creative act, for in editing down his thousands of feet of tape, Cook found he was forced to "compose...
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