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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman TOTAL RECORDING sound effects ideas man Ralph Harding is mov- ing from vinyl and magnetic recording tape to CD format. In the business of selling sound effects since 1967, Harding now specializes in the sounds of nature. The company specializes in gathering and marketing sounds. Total Record’s catalogue of 50-odd titles is wildly eclectic and in some cases pre-dates the phe- nomenon of sound sampling by at least 20 years. The company took off in 1967 with the release of TAC 901, Air- craft, which included the sounds of a low flypast, an F-100 and DC 8 planes taxiing and idling — close your eyes and you see it all with open ears. The most recent aural excursions include TRC 939, Conversation with the Gentle Giants and the disquieting TRC 94), Music For Your Nightmare. The Hardings operate the com- pany from their North Vancouver home. Distribution and tape or CD manufacturing takes place in Toronto and Lus Angeles. Ralph Harding got into the sound effects business after he ‘tired of the rat race’’ of 20 years spent in the music industry. He ended that phase of his life by sell- ing Studio 3, a Vancouver recordi- ng studio he had started with Tom Northcott. So airplanes led to animals and insects, military sounds such as fir- ing squads and bullet ricochets, laughs and applause and sundry ambient samplings. The contemporary imperative is to capture natural sounds — ocean surf, whales, birds, storms, wolves, Environmentalists take note: Sounds of the Rainforest, a synthesis of sounds heard in the Carmanah and Stein valleys is in the works. Said Hardy, ‘lt sounds funny at that comes.”’ Who buys the sounds of giggles, whistles, gulls, saw mills, babbling brooks and baseball? “People who like to meditate buy the natural sounds. A pro- ducer of a film would be a buyer. A lot of people go out and shoot with video cameras and then they want to show the videos and then they realize that they have no sounds, so that’s another market. It’s not a huge, huge thing. It’s what we call a onesy-twosy,’” Harding notes. Most recently the Hardings travelled down to Baha in January to record the Pacific and the Gulf of California sides of the penin- sula. Last year Harding taped wolves at Wolf Haven in Washington State. The move from vinyl and tape to CD has boosted saies for the com- pany. Perennial pleasers in the Total Records catalogue include Halloween and Laughs And Ap- plause. Said Harding, ‘“‘People said we were crazy to put this kind of thing out. For the first 10 years they were saying that. Now they’re not saying it anymore.” GOVERMENT T-BILL RATES* I 9, I [) . [yA , 0, I UY Tras Se ONES OUR BEST RATES ON GICs* 12.55% 12.25%112.00% [12.00%] 12.00 1 YEAR | 2 YEARS | 3 YEARS | 4 YEARS | 5 YEARS Special GUC. tate available for Seniors. 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