Clay hunter
As sound hunters Tonamateure are called, which creatively or as a hobby with the recording deal.
history
In 1925 the first official radio program was broadcast. Stimulated and supported by this development, amateurs began to deal with sound recording very early on. Initially, the recordings were made with record cutters, then with steel wire machines and from 1953 with tape recorders . The Compact Cassette followed in 1963 , the MiniDisc in 1992 , the digital audio tape at the end of the 1980s and, since the turn of the millennium, the digital flash recorder.
In 1948, the French radio broadcast the first program for sound amateurs. The invention of the magnetic tape laid the foundation for sound recording as a hobby. In 1950, on the initiative of Jean Thévenot, French radio organized a competition for amateur recordings, in which sound hunters from Switzerland also took part. In 1951 it was Switzerland with René Monnat that organized the 2nd competition for Swiss and French amateurs.
In 1952, the 1st International Competition for the Best Sound Recording (IWT) was held in Lausanne with participants from several countries. The winner of the Grand Prize was the student Stefan Kudelski , who entered the competition with a self-made device with a spring mechanism. The further development of this device was later named NAGRA and the student at that time was the founder of today's Kudelski Group . As a result, local clubs for tape amateurs called "Tonjäger" were set up in many countries. They joined together in national associations and then on October 21, 1956 in Paris the International Clay Hunter Federation ( Fédération Internationale des Chasseurs de Sons , FCIS for short) to be founded. Founding members were among others the radio staff Jean Thévenot from France (1916-1983) and Fredy Weber from Switzerland (1926-1996), who supervised and promoted the Tonjäger movement from the beginning.
Field of activity
The field of activity mainly includes the following areas:
- Sounds of nature
- Music recordings of all kinds
- Radio plays , sketches
- Reports , features and interviews
- Experimental recordings
- Film and multimedia recordings
literature
- Willi Härri, Oscar Schmid, Walter Kerker, Max Indermaur, Max Abegg: Tonjagd- klipp und klar !: Textbook of sound recording and playback practice for sound hunters, sound, slide and film amateurs , Gemsberg-Verlag, 1959
- HC Sacrifice man, Clemens Brendel: The new sound school: clay hunt, sound image, film scoring, etc. Synchronization. A textbook and reference book for sound hunters, sound film amateurs and the young generation of sound engineers, with special consideration of stereophony and slide setting, Seebruck a. Chiemsee: Heering, 1969
Web links
- www.soundhunters.com (English)
- Fritz Trümpi : The Noise of Stories , Wiener Zeitung from November 5, 2010