[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Richard Crowley wrote:

"Peter Larsen" wrote in ...

Coughs btw. recently caused a pianist to abandon the encore
unfinished in Tivoli Concert Hall ...

Audience noise (including coughs) used to drive me insane
when trying to do post-production on live recordings. But
now I just write them off as "natural environmental evidence"
that it is a live recording, not a supernatural studio creation.

Mostly they are just proof of authenticity. But some of the time the person
coughing is not in dire need of so doing. At a guitar quartet recording some
years ago a young female in the audience ... the type of person who finds it
natural to grab the next chair and use it for the legs ... was coughing
endlessly. But strangely offering her just one small piece of licorice cured
the dire malaise instantly.

A far distance from early live broadcasts and recordings when
they printed the program on silk to avoid paper rustling noise. :-)

A modest audience cough or a musicianschair noise is very handy for
reversemasking edits in the intermession between parts ....

Kind regards

Peter Larsen