A new composition for headphones featuring a field recording near the end of the Kitchen Mesa trail (Ghost Ranch, NM), slow midi-controlled tones, and percussive sounds made with an small Amazon box.
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125: 10-20-30
Episode 125 is a new sound collage featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Feynman, a manipulated recording of mowing the grass with a hand mower, a binaural recording of the Hillcrest Farmers Market (San Diego) and the scientific method. Continue reading
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124: White Line Fever
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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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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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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116: One-Seven
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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115: If there’s still time, I’ll be ready at once.
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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114: Sonata for JH
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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