random sound cavalcade #53

It's the 53rd random sound cavalcade! Rejoice! An odd word, rejoice...

And this sound is a fresh one, from the just past episode of the second sunday sipping sounds series (next date: 08 February 2015). But this sound is also a tried-to-tired bit of tune: the well-worn favourite a farewell to mister barnes, which previously has been built around and built up from a plagal cadence (the IV-I for all the Romans). here, it appears that our comrade has nearly forgone with that -- it only appears at the end along with traces of seemless -- and gone on and on and on with the build up. it's all whirlwind, heat and flash. the tuning is a bit off throughout, as the strings were fresh 'n' bright 'n' still stretching ever so slightly during these long journeys at sea.

if shockwave-flash inoperative : a farewell to mister barnes

random sound cavalcade #52

more snippets of sound-actions just previous. two internal bits of the 12th of october 2014 episode of the second sunday sipping sounds series: a coronach, a meditative set of revolving seventh chords, and the first and third (final) parts of a farewell to mister barnes, omitting the usual plagal cadence that was the second part for this go-round. enjoy.

random sound cavalcade #51

the first and second bits of last sunday's sipping sounds, comprising most-to-all of the latest williwaw chestnuts a coronach and chin down. the former is an unrelenting unspooling of chords in memoriam, the latter a diversion from a ditty developed at the home of jen and craig abell-champion in 2013, possibly based around much older ditties: the verse of "pearly white" by bale (which was itself borrowed wholesale from k. p. w. rainey), the williwaw fave "cherryvale" and the gymnopédies no. 1 vamp.

random sound cavalcade #50

Over at the williwaw sound emporium, the hypertext protocol has nearly caught up with the turn of the millennium: you can now listen to studio-esque lives and live-esque studies right there on the page, and you, yes you, can listen to your heart's content, and the content of all manner of internal organs - and you can listen to multiple sounds at the same time: mix-O-matic!

To celebrate this bit of thrilling hand-coding, here's one of those playable cuts, now dusted off after a decade of web wallowing: perhaps being too beholden to the title of the collection, the kids are not ready, it has that free-noise/kosmische sound the kids now all crave.

random sound cavalcade #49

the end of the 8th june 2014 episode of the second sunday sipping sounds series.

random sound cavalcade #48

random sound cavalcade #47

play one or more - at the same time even. Oh, the Imaginary Landscapes of it all! - of these tantalizingly higher fidelity excerpts from the 9th of march 2014 episode of the Second Sunday Sipping Sounds Series.

random sound cavalcade #46

here's a wee lo-fi-but-loving sampling of some sipping sounds from the 12th of january episode. in this scene, our comrade williwaw actively awaits the return of jamie bolland and rachel drury to the non-stage for a second set of subsequent trio action. in other words, this is intermission music. the footage is a bit of tomfoolery involving fred astaire and a faulty bicycle. behold, a broken chain melody.

full disclosure: this was all cobbled all-too-hastily together to mark the forty-sixth journey 'round the sun of craig abell-champion.

random sound cavalcade #45 : an everlasting summer place

look at we three, sandra dee... the merrily rolling progression of max steiner's theme from a summer place as performed on the 10th of january, 2014, by our comrade williwaw and his stalwart crew, jamie bolland (keys/birdsongs) and rachel drury (alto saxamaphone) at the old hairdressers (as part of the second sunday sipping sounds series). a horribly lo-fi recording of twentysome minutes of trimonious sounds. yes, trimonious.

random sound cavalcade #44

thirty-six minutes of low-fi audio living that you just can't get back. that time has passed. sorry, no refunds.

random sound cavalcade #40, 41, 42 & 43 : some ensemble chestnuts

not enough people of this wee earth have been able to relish the sweet sounds of molten cicada lust, the hot! uke-on-uke action of the williwaw ensemble. here again, then, are a sampling of their oeuvre nonpareil: four of the eighteen legends - improvisational guides from a modern guitar tablature key - performed at the candlestick maker (chicago, usa) on the seventh of december, 2002.

the ensemble on that eve was comprised of nathaniel braddock, jim elkington, chuck falzone, david hunter, greg o'drobinak, kip rainey and the eponymous one.

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 #37 : more sounds with trains

a special audio-visual edition of the random sound cavalcade (#34 for those who just love a good ol' fashioned countin') with two alive and lo-fi recorded excerpts from the Second Sunday Sipping Sounds Series, the 14 July and 11 August 2013 episodes.

first up is an awfully ad hoc if not just awful rendition of parts of the first movement of different trains (s. reich) from the 14. July 2013 episode of williwaw's Second Sundays at the Old Hairdo. this material has been previously attempted with this actual one-reel, Our Gang's Sundown Ltd. this time, there was no visual fodder during the audio festivities, but it just might work better than the previous attempts with the visual fodder which was just pasted to the audio after all was strummed 'n' done. Fodder all.

second salvo is an even looser cobbling, with the audio coming from the 11. August 2013 episode of Second Sundays, the second half of a long version - is there any other type of version with this infernal williwaw racket? - of the mister barnes theme (i.e., the plagal cadence number). the visual bits - more trains! - procured from that most procurable of places, the internet archive.

random sound cavalcade #33

a quartet of excerpts of the same laborious material from the most recent episode of the second sunday sipping sounds series at the old hairdressers. why listen to them one at a time when you can play them all at the same or slightly different times? think of the time you'll save - such efficiency! think of the sweet raucous din that you, yes you, can create on your very own - fun!

chinese downhill 1 : here comes harkin

chinese downhill 2 : sunny side up

chinese downhill 3 : sunny side down

chinese downhill 4 : all the way around

random sound cavalcade #32 : two tokens of the usual amp'd uke oppression

random sound cavalcade #31: (re)building the perfect diversionette

while the horses are on the tracks, and the tracks are being pressed into shimmering coasters of light for the new extended player, the diversionette, set to sail on the fifteenth of march, here is a wee taste - the crudest of "megamixes" - from the SUPER DUPER BONUS CD that comes with every hand-assembled copy of the diversionette. Behold, the the diversionette : return of the earth men remixes !

these wee snippets of snip-and-paste mastery come from the likes of taperecorder (brooklyn usa), gkmachine (glasgow, scotland), skizzwang (planet spudd) and your beloved comrade williwaw. these stalwarts were all part of the december 2011 massive, the night of the earth men. the dream of the earth men lives on!

random sound cavalcade #30

in further honour of st. swithun's day, we present the other bit of recording frolick from our comrade williwaw from yesterday's live-to-virtual-tape tomfoolery at chem19 studios with jamie savage still at the desk. another bit of the borrowed, a rather straight-forward/backward/sideways rendition of neonlicht by Sie-wissen-wer.

say it ain't so! the rough mix has been removed awaiting the release of the proper diversionette on the fifteenth of march, 2012

more of the same oppressive, long-in-the-tooth squalling can always be found at the williwaw sound emporium.

random sound cavalcade #29

in honour of st. swithun's day, our comrade williwaw recorded a loving, if overlong, rendition of fall by wayne shorter at chem19 studios with jamie savage at the potentiometers on this most auspicious if obscure holiday. behold!

random sound cavalcade #28

behold! a bit-rough, a bit-quick, a Bisquick mix from the 19. October williwaw recording session of that exploration of open strings, so-do-mi-la (hence the title, smartypants). recorded by jamie savage at chem19 studios in nearby hamilton, scotland.

(the track, along with all manner of previous amp'd uke exorcisms, can be downloaded from the williwaw sound emporium)

how does it sound? No, really, that's not a rhetoric question. What do you think? Sure, the material is rubbish, but what of the mix? Besides making it all louder - deaf forever to the battle's din! - what would you change? Democracy, electroacoustic style!

random sound cavalcade #27

A bit of the telematic chicanery that took place just o'er a year ago - 24. march 2009 - at Elastic Arts Foundation on north milwaukee avenue. Conspirators for the chicanery included our comrade williwaw, ian hatcher on glockenspiel/melodica, daniel godston on trumpet, amanda gutierrez on laptop, jayve montgomery on laptop/mixer, noé cuéllar on visuals along with collaborators from Tucson, Arizona, Ciudad de México, D.F., and Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.