Love the mix of environmental recordings, simple synth effects, minimal indie-jangle arrangements, and literary-existential lyrics. Genius!
Category Archives: Psychogeography
Orson Welles Interviewing Isidore Isou
It is sometimes astounding what one can find on YouTube! This took me completely by surprise. I had no idea there would be such an explicit film document of Lettrist poetry.
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
It seems that the same group of anarchist-percussionists made a feature comedy-crime film entitled Sound of Noise.
Post-industrial Montreal
Pictures taken not far from where I used to live (Rue Bernard and Ave du Parc, in Outremont) as an undergraduate at Mcgill. There was already some post-industrial urban decay in those days, but the grafitti wasn’t as good. It feels like I’ve been on top of this building long ago, but surely it can’t have been abandoned for that long – probably déjà vu. Seems a little dangerous: there’s a sink hole where the roof is starting to cave in. And unhealthy: tons of pigeon shit and mold everywhere.
The building may be the location of this video:
or maybe it was shot in the Bovril building on the other side of Parc.
Montreal Streets
Kyoto Cutup (2005)
Do you know Ponto-cho?
Walking around in Nakanoshima
Here’s a recording I made in Nakanoshima, on February 02, 2012, testing out a windshield for binaural microphones. If you listen with headphones you can hear some of the spatial qualities of the audio.
That’s a situationist yelp close to the beginning when a somewhat rude older couple hogging the sidewalk nearly walked into me. Manners!
The section at the end, a close-up recording of some kind of noisy machine for fixing the road, gives a strong percept of space. Here’s the section by itself:
Use headphones (or, more likely?, earbuds) to hear the binaural effect.
