The sounds of sewage
Start by listening to the sounds of your body while moving. They are closest to you and establish the first dialogue between you and the environment. If you can hear even the quietest of these sounds you are moving through an environment which is scaled on human proportions. In other words, with your voice or your footsteps for instance, you are “talking” to your environment which then in turn responds by giving your sounds a specific acoustic quality.
Try to move
Without making any sound.
Is it possible?
Which is
the quietest sound of your body?
(If, however, you cannot hear the sounds you yourself produce,
you experience a soundscape out of balance. Human proportions have
no meaning here. Not only are your voice and footsteps inaudible but also
your ear is dealing with an overload of sound).
Lead your ears away from your own sounds and
listen to the sounds nearby.
What do you hear? (Make a list)
What else do you hear?
Other people
Nature sounds
Mechanical sounds
How many
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Can you detect
Interesting rhythms
Regular beats
The highest
The lowest pitch.
Do you hear any
Intermittent or discrete sounds
Rustles
Bangs
Swishes
Thuds
What are the sources of the different sounds?
What else do you hear?
Lead your ears away from these sounds and listen
beyond——-into the distance.
What is the quietest sound?
What else do you hear?
What else?
What else?
What else?
What else?
"John Cage: “Indeterminacy”, Part One
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Cro-Mags Hard Times MIDI Version (by FirebirdCamaro1220)
I recently bought an iPad for the primary purpose of exploring the device’s potential as an experimental musical instrument. After about a week of research, I’ve discovered some very promising and creative software that suggests that the iPad can indeed function as a very powerful means of sound…
Click through for a good roundup of noisy apps.
Looks like I’ll be buying a ¥5000 AppStore card come payday…
Joe Mensah—“Africa is Home”
Ghana Soundz, Vol. 2: Afrobeat, Funk, and Fusion in 70s Ghana (Soundways 2004).
Picchio dal Pozzo - Seppia
s/t (1976)
Killer and bizarre Italian prog record. Bizarre in that it’s a Canterbury influenced prog record out of Italy. Heavy Soft Machine/Robert Wyatt vibes… which does make sense since the album is dedicated to Wyatt.
Fantast/mic.
Last night: Crys Cole, Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi at Urban Guild, Kyoto.
自殺 (Jisatsu) - ZERO / 1978
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自殺 Jisatsu - ぶた Buta ( PV / 1979)
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Fugazi - Instrument. Documentary film.
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Any past or DISAPPEARING SOUND remembered nostalgically, particularly when idealized or otherwise given special importance. Whereas new sounds are often experienced as SOUND PHOBIAs, old or past sounds are often elevated to the category of sound romances in memory. Many such sounds were often regarded as unimportant when actually current; yet later, hearing them may trigger strong memories. Sounds experienced during childhood, for instance, often become romances for the adult. After moving away from a given area, particularly one strongly linked with sound, such as a community by the ocean, to a place lacking those familiar sounds, these may also acquire a romantic or nostalgic quality. Other sounds go beyond having only personal romance qualities and are valued and preserved by a society as SOUNDMARKs. The whistle of the steam train, for instance, has now come to symbolize the era when such trains were common. Many have now been restored and are regarded as having historical importance. In Canada, their replacements, the newer air horns, had to be designed to resemble their predecessors in order to be recognized as train whistles.
