This week on the podcast, the sounds and feelings of driving and driving and driving and driving and driving and driving and driving, while the mind wanders.
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123: Another exciting prospect
The history and environmental impacts of cement, mind-blowing theories about the universe, atomic testing at Bikini Atoll, the Chernobyl disaster, and much much more! stopGOstop is proud to present Another exiting prospect, a new sound collage.
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122: The Forest
A slow circular conversation that occasionally paraphrases Shakespeare and Chekhov, to create a lamentation to work, aging and trying to talk to those around you. Featuring a binaural recording of a walk in Long Island City, Queens, and a quintet of midi-based instruments.
Is it a metal block, a helicopter overhead, the ocean flows in our veins, a single leaf without context, the hushed sounds of people talking, time travel is real, I am standing beside you, who are you? You breathe in, you breathe out, a long slow tone.
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121: A walk from Grand Central to Times Square (with a bit of yoga)
A twenty-five minute binaural recording of a walk from Grand Central Terminal to Times Square. I was originally going to end the episode standing above Max Neuhaus: Times Square located between 45th and 46th in Midtown Manhattan, but it was the summer solstice, so they were doing yoga throughout the area. The specific grate that the piece radiates out from was covered with AV road cases.
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120: Under the CCP
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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119: Walking home from the mall
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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118: It starts at the Atlantic
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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117: A situation that should be approached with special attention
A new composition for headphones featuring field and foley recordings, counting and computer-based polyphonic synthesization.
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