Sound Clip: Noises Everywhere by Jason Bolte

Noises Everywhere was inspired by a snippet of text from the classic children’s book “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown, a book my daughter and I love to read at bedtime. The work uses sound materials derived from my daughter’s (Lila’s) toys.

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Sound Clip: Live Performance by Bryan Day

This is an excerpt from a performance at the Turquoise Yantra Grotto space in San Francisco. This was a semi-improvised performance featuring sounds from a setup of six homemade instruments: Zithselqier, Tapewarp, Games of Chance, Columns, Frame Zither and Crash/Bang.

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Sound Clip: Sparrows Communicating in New York by Nailah Nombeko

I recorded these sounds on March 6th at 7:40 am, I’m standing in front of the Good Shepherd Church on 207th street.

Sound Clip: Arri Ballast Noise by Emanuele Costantini

The electric ballast is a device used to limit the amount of current in an electric circuit. On a film set has a shape of a big heavy iron block and every model has its own characteristic noise. I’ve been recording this one using a couple of telephone pick-ups and no other process has been applied.

Sound Clip: Performance by the Great Lakes Ensemble

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is a one-of-a-kind cultural institution in Two Rivers, Wisconsin that has a collection of over 1.5 million pieces in more than 1,000 styles of wood type. Its presence highlights an essential aspect of printmaking and design in America.

The Great Lakes Ensemble performed at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum on June 10, 2012. We started the performance with a trio of horns improvising while a pair of platen letterpress machines whirred and hummed, gears spinning. Then the ensemble moved into the museum’s central room—surrounded by printmaking machines, framed prints, and displayed wood type. The dancers and musicians improvised while bathymetric maps of the Great Lakes were projected onto a wall. One highlight of the performance was when Jim Moran, Museum Director, joined in. For several minutes he operated a pantograph, which added a unique sonic element to the performance.

GLE members during that performance included Lisa LaMarre (dance & choreography), Rachael Ahn Harbert (dance), Marianne Brass (dance), James Cornish (trumpet, baritone horn), Joseph Vajarsky (tenor saxophone), Dan Godston (trumpet, poetry, small instruments), Albert Wildeman (upright bass), and Anthony Poretti (drums). GLE performed on a bill that included poets Stephen Frech and Pat Moran.

Sound Clip: Grand Drive by Josh Lawler

Recordings of the ambience, ballroom and classical Japanese music -  midnight driving sounds.

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Sound Clip: Soduz by Gurkan Mihci

Sound collage.

Album of Samples Used:
Stalker (1979), directed by Andrey Tarkovskiy
R. Murray Schafer Interview (2011)
Ereaserhead, directed by David Lynch
Dziga Vertov Sound Recordings (1930)
Hittites Documentary (1982), (recorded by Gökhan M?hç?)
Hawaiian Quintette Aiaihea (1913)
Found and Lost, by Eser Selen
I had a dream last night, by Eser Selen
Sony Media Software Soundscapes ©

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Sound Clip: Religion by Mary Lou Blakeslee and Canary Burton

Sound painting duo, recovering Catholic.

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Remixed by Talk Midway:

Sound Clip: Saved All Day Remix by Talk Midway

This track features an a cappella archival recording, “Saved All Day,” recorded in 1940 and available through the Library of Congress. Instrumentation used includes ukulele and a Casio keyboard.

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Sound Clip: Abort Nerves by John Harvey

This excerpt is from the upcoming conference, The Noises of Art. The work addresses what is arguably the most prolific, varied, and groundbreaking period in the coming together, exchange, and mutual influence of visual art and sound-based practices (such as music and the spoken word). It aims to explore (principally) the visual artist’s engagement with sound, noise, music, and text while at the same time recognizing that there is a traffic of musicians, sound artists, and text artists moving in the opposite direction, who aspire to cultivate visual analogues for their work. Thus, the conference is situated at the intersection of several movements that are converging upon a point of visual-audio synthesis and exchange.

Sound Clip: Búzio e Chocalhos by Luís Antero

In some villages of Portugal, mainly in those where they herd cattle, the pastor would play the conch in the morning to warn all residents that it was time to let the cattle in the hills. This ritual was repeated every day. The conch also served to alert and warn the villagers whenever something significant happened in the town.

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Sound Clip: Canzone Distorte by Svetlana Maras and Anja Djordjevic

Canzone distorte emerged from our hunt for a perfect song. This project is a testimonial of a creative process that we went through while working together and trying to consolidate our different musical affinities. Shifting between the urge to create and the urge to destroy, we found ourselves in the playground (or a battlefield) of musical thoughts where everything was allowed, and so we went exploring without knowing where we will end up. We walked freely through this musical universe and drifted in many different directions, taking right and wrong turns and opening many doors. We stumbled into things that made us laugh, that made us wonder, things we liked a lot or a little less. We put together all these bits and pieces from our journey to tell you a story that may amuse you or confuse you.

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‘A soundscape about the relationship, between a local individual and the environment that surrounds them in Cornwall’.
It features a story about a local persons favourite scenic location and an activity that they do at the location, alongside environmental sounds that help describe the location.

The process was formulated through finding unique and quirky local people in Falmouth, then interviewing and asking questions that created a story about their favourite scenic location. Following this, I recorded environmental sounds that were described in the story. I recorded the waves from the sea, seagulls, dogs, wind, footsteps, glass crackling, people, stormy weather and many more sounds that didn’t make it to the final edit.
Then I collected all the recordings and edited and put all the sounds together using Adobe Audition. I manipulated some of the recordings to enable special effects and panned the sounds to play out to the left and right speakers to portray actuality in the soundscape, for the listener to imagine the scenic location through memory.

I suggest that the listener should use headphones to listen to Scenic Stories.

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Sound Clip: ZipUp from 100 Strange Sounds by Joo Won Park

100 Strange Sounds a computer music experiment with everyday objects. It is a personal challenge, I will be uploading 100 videos of live electronic music performances over the next year.

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