random sound cavalcade #39

another laborious overture from another episode of the sipping sounds series - the 8th o' september 2013 episode - to enjoy/endure at your leisure. and if you make it all the way through this lo-fi squabble to the 21'10" mark (no peeking), you get a prize. Well, if you consider something sounding a distant kin to the chorus of Weak Flesh being a prize. I certainly do. just prior to that moment, there's even some of that most rare occurence in the 'ukulele domain: sustain. enjoy / endure / repeat

random sound cavalcade #19

hey nineteen - the cavalcade rolls on!

the other of the two tweakings of space sounds, and yet another part of the ever-burdened series, our very lives are being compressed. this one is based on the acoustic detritus produced by a Jovian Bow shock.

random sound cavalcade #18

on a slow day in psychoacoustics, the ever-so-credible phonaut turned the ever-so-ignorant-of-such-things williwaw on to the recordings of astrophysical activity. here's the first of two completed tweakings - yes, more of the ever expanding our very lives are being compressed series. blame the university of iowa - no, not for everything, just for explaining the source material, earth proton whistlers.

random sound cavalcade #16

experimenting with a new flash media player here as it seems as though the other simple one has gone all craptacular on us - sigh. these deceptive sounds were not taken from another yawntastic art installation, but from Binion's Horseshoe, where our comrade almost got punched in the face and elsewhere for trying to take a picture of the ghost of Willie Mosconi

horse : excerpt one

random sound cavalcade #15

yet another vegasmasses entry into the cavalcade: this particular excerpt comes from the last entry in the lumbering volumes, simply entitled end. fair warning: this excerpt does get much louder in the middle, so let the subtlety ride on, peace frog.

end : excerpt one

random sound cavalcade #12, 13 & 14

more from the vegasmasses volumes. these excerpts come from the great lumbering track trop, recorded -gasp- at the Tropicana casino. though notes are sketchy at best what sort of CoolEdit waveform editing was used to crush, kill and destroy the recorded sound, it highlighted here the underlying drone of the casino, how it really plays upon a simple harmonic system that continues melodic motion without any harmonic motion, regardless of where the recorder wandered. credit should be given to the ever-so-credible phonaut, who encouraged many early parts of the overarching our very lives are being compressed series, including these particular masses. three more excerpts for your mixing, matching, lathering, rinsing and general pleasure.

trop : excerpt one

trop : excerpt two

trop : excerpt three

random sound cavalcade #9, 10 & 11

after watching some of Olivo Barbieri's Site Specific short film series, the cavalcade turns its attention to another most particular series: vegasmasses. wandering around the strips - old and new - of las vegas (visiting the undeniable Overlord of the Mightiest Rock, peter pollack) with a minidisc recorder, the sounds of many casinos were captured, crushed and yes, even compressed.

the beauty of las vegas casinos is the attention to aural and visual detail: every doorknob, faucet and throw pillow follows the theme, every sound from every slot machine is in the same key, creating a mellifluous din.

two volumes of large sound masses were originally passed among the precious few, magnifying the aural detail. here are not one, not two, but three excerpts from the lumbering track grand. mix, match, lather, rinse, enjoy.

grand : excerpt one

grand : excerpt two

grand : excerpt three

random sound cavalcade #6

d'oh! started the new without completing the old - an unfinished project? never! here's another excerpt from the first installment of our very lives are being compressed (based on the inaugural voyage of the williwaw ensemble). tweaked often, but never twittered.

random sound cavalcade #5

the return of the our very lives are being compressed series, ahoy!

as with previous parts of the series, something quite unexpected happened when every thought and action was placed into the smallest dynamic space - on, off, red, green - the compressed life; when we try to resurrect the soft amid the deafening din, things go awry. lame poetics aside, the source material of this excerpt is not a uke through numerous pedals, amps and blown speakers, but a comedy routine by a member of the Second City troupe, recorded without permission because bored hands are the devil's playthings. sadly, then, this is 'ukulele free, but amplified? oh, mercy!

random sound cavalcade #4

here's part two of untold hordes of quaint snippets from the inaugural our very lives are being compressed

random sound cavalcade #3

here's the first of several excerpts from the maiden voyage of the williwaw ensemble. the original recording was incredibly quiet, the subtlest hemming and hawing of the air... to achieve some sense of audibility, the recordings were compressed, and then, inadvertently, compressed several more times. the smallest artifact became the eighty-decibel elephant in the middle of the mix. despite the heavy-handed dynamism, the accidental prominence of one particular uke was still evident (the ensemble was assembled as a crude half-circle on a rug filled with 'ukuleles for their choosing). To stamp out such an uprising, further tweaking was applied, and the result became the first installment of the still on-going, if hardly living, project our very lives are being compressed.