A ten minute binaural recording standing under the Cross County Parkway, with traffic singing above, a few cars passing in front, a sneeze, and the occasional sound of pages turning (I was reading Motherhood by Sheila Heti during the recording).
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A binaural recording of a walk from Cross County Mall to our house in Mount Vernon. An hour long walk through lower Westchester County, in the suburbs of New York City where my wife and I have lived for the last four years. I refereed to it as the Cross Country Mall in the recording… a verbal mistake I have made over and over again. A quick note: the next couple of episodes of the pod are going to focus on field recordings in the NYC region. A sort of tribute to the 13 years I have lived here as I get ready to move to San Diego later this summer.
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Episode 118 starts with a two minute recording of the Atlantic Ocean moves underground to the One train, traveling south in Manhattan, it continues with a recording of a desk chair being moved back and forth on linoleum, then the sounds of a resting steam engine, with an uptempo piano, and a slow and steady synth… a sixteen minute collage of synthesized sounds along side field and foley recordings, about motion, man-made and otherwise.
An extended version of this episode aired on July 21, 2019 as episode #683 of the Framework radio program. Please visit their website for the recording and more info.
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A new composition for headphones featuring field and foley recordings, counting and computer-based polyphonic synthesization.
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My thoughts aim west, combining a field recording made on the Los Angles Public Transportation’s Expo Line, with a new composition for computer generated piano, and small midi instrument ensemble. For download, here is the score for part one of the composition.
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A walk in the park; computer generated midi composition, sine waves, manipulations and miscellaneous signal processing; waiting for the snow to melt; doing laundry; thinking about The Cherry Orchard.
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A drive to Peekskill, NY; fragments of 1950’s interstate highway propaganda films; a re-arrangement of a musical reflection of James Turrell; Episode 114 of the podcast is a new composition created from fragments, pieced together through careful listening and in the spirit of James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer,self-trained naturalist and founder of modern geology.
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Dinosaurs! Unit Vectors! Shotgun Microphones! Frankenstein in outerspace! and more! stopGOstop presents A rock, a man and a connection, a new sound collage.
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