Environments 8: Wood-Masted Sailboat

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	1.	Wood-Masted Sailboat 31:53		buy track
	2.	A Country Stream 32:21		buy track

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“Wood-Masted Sailboat” is among the most popular recordings in the series. As Environments 8’s publicity literature asks, “Have you ever been aboard a trim, lithe, ocean-going sailing vessel?” But contrary to what the marketing effort implied, “Wood-Masted Sailboat” is a collage of sounds—a Platonic ideal of a sloop at sea. Keep your eyes tuned to the creaking wooden mast, clattering rigging, squeaking boom-vang, and chiming buoys. The boat used for this recording is a 42-foot gaff-rigged ship built around 1900. Teibel proudly introduced this as the first recording in the series to present the idea of a “moving” environment.

Side B, “A Country Stream,” is another popular recording often imitated by Irv Teibel's successors. These sounds were taken using quadraphonic techniques at a stream flowing into the Housatonic River near the New England town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Teibel recommends “A Country Stream” for creating a calm, relaxed atmosphere, “ideal for quiet social gatherings,” and to paradoxically carve out “isolation from distractions in an over-silent or too noisy environment.”

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released January 5, 1974

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Environments Chicago, Illinois

Environments is a historic catalog of long form field recordings created for the way you live. Whether you need to work, meditate, sleep, or any other use, Environments is the only ambient sound app based on extended recordings created in the 1960s and ’70s on analog tape. Environments began as an unprecedented series of vinyl records, garnering widespread acclaim and selling millions of units. ... more

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