101: A welcome relief or an interruption

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A welcome relief or an interruption, an audio collage featuring recording about the National Interstate Defense and Highways, Pittsburgh, James Baldwin, Eisenhower, Mahler, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more!

Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.

 

 

093: Field Notes

A collage of binaural and stereo field recordings: a walk near my house in Mount Vernon, NY; a recording from my backyard as I trim a few trees; a recording alongside the a man-made lake near Highway 44 in suburban St. Louis; a recording of a walk back to work after lunch; among others. The tones are made through using a tone gate on the recordings, so when the wind creates a bit of mic noise, it is joined by tones and cords.

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