Sound Clip: I Didn’t Know That by Tom Tenney

“I Didn’t Know That” is a sonic exploration of propaganda and state-controlled “truths,” created almost entirely from found clips appropriated from public domain educational and US  military-training films. Any use of copyrighted material constitutes a fair use as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

Sound Clip: Fanphony by Mike Rooke

Recording of the Magnetic Flux disturbance around a game console.

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Sound Clip: Team Roti by Field Abuse

In New Dheli, Paharganj and located in a small alley, is excellent home-made style Roti (flat bread cooked in a wooden oven). The sound mostly comes from the clapping hands of the staff giving shape to the bread.

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Sound Clips: BWV 1080 B4 and A3 by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros

Bach’s use of ‘open score’ notation in his manuscript of ‘Art of Fugue’ – meaning that each fugal voice was written on a separate staff – seemed to leave the question of instrumentation ‘open’ as well. Was it meant for the keyboard, or could it be played by any instrument or ensemble?” “BWV 1080, für Kippschwingung/Rechteckschwingung” takes that hypothesis to the acid realm. The tape features nine fugues from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Die Kunst der Fuge” played on a monophonic analog bass synthesizer. The tracks on side A were played using the sawtooth wave. The tracks on side AA were played using the square wave.

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Sound Clip: The Birds of Verona by Eric Van der Wyk

The Birds of Verona was my first recording of this genre.  I was 19, living at my Great-Aunt Betty’s farm (which she calls “Verona”) in South Burlington, Vermont in 1975.  Having been raised a “city boy” from San Francisco, I was enthralled by the beauty of the natural sounds of the country as they were relatively undisturbed by the types noise pollution I had grown accustomed to.  Betty’s farm is a flyway for migratory birds.  I discovered that in the peak of summer when the sun rises at about 4:30 am, the bird conversations are truly remarkable.

Armed with a pair of Sony Electret Condenser microphones and a reel-to-reel tape recorder, I captured the first 48 minutes of bird song as the sun rose at a time when all but the dairy farmers were still sleeping.  The texture and variety of these calls are delightful to hear as the birds rejoiced in the dawning of another beautiful day in Vermont.

Using modern remastering techniques, tape noise has been removed from the original recording, revealing the clear sound of bird song and natural ambience  (an occasional truck drives down Cheese Factory Rd).

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Sound Clip: Calmuen by Collectif  Tralala

Sound painting of the cement manufacturer with white dust on the grass.

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Sound Clip: Dangerfield by Matija Schellander

Double bass, street noise, speech and inspired by Phillip K. Dicks “Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb”

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Sound Clip: Happy Birthday Music Box by Percy Duke

Today is Sound is Art’s one year birthday and I am writing to tell you how incredibly worthwhile this project has been for me. I am proud to have so many subscribers, contributors and incredible recordings hosted on this site. I would like to add, “keep ‘em coming!” It would be incredible to search this site in 25 years when there are thousands of unique posts.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Margaret Noble

Sound Clip: KcC by Signal Noise

This soundscape is created from clinking knifes, metal plates, processed vocals and guitar.

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Sound Clip: Sounds Like Leigh Excerpt by William Cheshire

Sounds Like Leigh is composer William Cheshire’s ongoing project to record the obvious and not-so-obvious sounds of his home town – Leigh-on-Sea. It stands as a platform for the sounds people may hear, or imagine to hear, on a day to day basis. The first landmark for the project will be a sound installation at this year’s Village Green Festival (Chalkwell Park, Essex).

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Sound Clip: Chilliochaki by Augustine Leudar

Chulliochaki is an 8 speaker surround sound installation that takes the listener on a journey through the rainforest to meet the mythical guardian and notorious trickster of the Amazon – The Chulliochaki. All the sounds are field recordings I recorded during the several years I lived in Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazon. These field recordings have been subsequently manipulated digitally and seek to create an original atmosphere rather than just mimic the rainforest at night. The Chullichaki is often described as a mischievous spirit in Amazonian folklore but the Incas also regarded him as the Guardian of the entire Amazon forest. He features prominently in Amazonian mythology and fairy tales. The Icaro (magical song) at the end of the piece is sung by Peruvian currandero Jesus Escalante MacMillan. This mix is a stereo mix down of the original 8 speaker mix and loses some of its effect in transition but should serve to give an idea of the piece. The stereo mix down is the last track on the album “Invisible Forest”. It also featured as part of the “Biomes at Night,” a nocturnal sound installation at the Eden project in Cornwall – possibly the world’s largest ever sound installation!

Sound Clip: Tephra from the album Mikroklimata by Helena Gough

Excerpt from four soundworks germinated with co-existence in mind. Four points along a route of continual transformation. Environments formed of magnified degradations and eruptions. Single cells and clusters multiplied and mutated. Spaces disrupted by small collapses and stark ruptures.

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Sound Clip: Wind Chimes in the Rain by Eric Van der Wyk

Wind Chimes in the Rain, was recorded over 20 years ago in Modesto, California, in February 1986 during a very heavy rainstorm.  The original recording lasts about 78 minutes and the rain never lets up.  The three dimensional recording technique puts you right in the middle of the storm.

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Sound Clip: Divertimento by Arizona

Abstraction and noise.

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Sound Clip: Summer Cicadas by Sid Yiddish

Cicadas in the June of 2007. This species know as the “Magicicada” is the genus of the 13- and 17-year periodical cicadas of eastern North America. These insects display a combination of long life cycles, periodicity, and mass emergences.