128: The Float

After the destination has been set, after the engines have cut off, as the computers go into hibernation, you are in the void, the vast nothing. Space is big, mind-bogglingly big its…. nothing to do but wait. Episode 128, The Float, is part two of a multi-episode journey from Earth to the beyond, featuring field recordings, miscellaneous NASA sounds, and a few digital instruments.

127: To the Future! To the Stars!

Part one of an odyssey from Earth to the beyond. The episode starts with a pre-launch check, liftoff, the melody of space flight, and continues with the sounds you thought you left behind, or are they memories, maybe you just need more vitamin B….what is it like to dream in space… does weightlessness effect the unconscious mind… No Praeterita! Ad Posterum! Ad Astra!

 

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

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.

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.