Love the mix of environmental recordings, simple synth effects, minimal indie-jangle arrangements, and literary-existential lyrics. Genius!
Category Archives: Situation
EM Sounds of a 15-inch MacBook Pro (In Glorious Stereo)
Recorded via stereo 400 millihenri coils. The song you hear part way through is Julian Cope’s ‘Laughing Boy’ from the album ‘FRIED’. It started playing on YouTube after restarting the computer, which evidently never goes (electromagnetically) completely silent during a restart. It is recorded here not acoustically, but through electromagnetic emissions due to movement of the computer speaker coils.
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.
In One Ear & Out the Other
Prof. Clark Lunberry, a former guest speaker in the seminar is currently holding an exhibiiton of his installation work In Paris. The exhibition commemorates the 100th birthday of John Cage.
Clicking the above picture will take you to a slideshow of photos from the exhibition.
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.
