Field Recordings

140: quotidien sounds - daily life remix

We are surrounded by noise, just about all of which we filter out either mechanically or mentally.  But when I  made note of unexpected and beautiful noises that arose throughout a day, in short order I started to have a sonic journal of surprising delicacy and emotion.  Just using the recorder directly on my phone to capture anything that struck me as beautiful or unusual.  Then I mixed it together for a short ( 1 minute) piece....but maybe over the weekend I'll get in the studio and work more with these sounds ( or others).

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133: thoughts on electromagnetic art

Some thoughts on a project I'm starting....to create a map of  the Very Low Frequency (VLF) electromagnetic forms on Penn ave ( Pittsburgh).  My initial curiosity; the interesting challenges of archiving and organizing information; and some speculation on the final output.

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125: Field recording (remix the world)

We live in this ecstatic wash of sound!  Field recording - going out in to the world with a tape recorder - lets me capture specific sounds that end up in my music.  Sometimes those references are apparent in the finished music.  Other times, the source provides a hidden richness of harmony and timbre often far beyond what I could create independently in the synthesizer.   

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118: Bleepy Bleepies - sounds in everyday

Plans for a 'sound-map' of Pittsburgh recording concentration of unique crosswalk signs..those things that bleep and bloop when it's safe to cross.  In this episode I found a couple of old recordings of crosswalk signals from Delaware (US) and Rotterdam ( Netherlands).  

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Pittsburgh Field Recordings: Blvd of Allies and Wood Street 011313

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I walk through this intersection each morning from the bus stop over to my office building.  The pedestrian walk signs have an associated alarm sound.  I'm not sure how to interpret the beeps.  I would expect that the signal would beep when there was a green "walk" sign, but each signal seems to be beeping all the time.  Although I'm confused whether or not to cross the street, this does create an interesting soundscape.  Overlapping patterns change intensity with  my position in the street.  
I set out to record this on Sunday morning a few weeks ago.  Here's the video and soundtrack.  
 

It's possible that I'll manipulate the source recording, perhaps call it Field Recording with Unfolding Sonic Manipulations.  That would fit with other pieces, like Impossibly Loud and Unbearably Silent (for singer, automobiles and the 16th street bridge) or Hurdy Gurdy and Freight Train (for Hurdy Gurdy, East Side Parking Lot and the  Norfolk and Southern Railroad).  Pieces where the landscape is a counterpoint for the composed bit.  Part of the larger exploration of Pittsburgh sonic Psychogeography.   
But for now, this is the sound of a street corner, with waker.