Sunday, February 26, 2012

found sounds for Sunday morning

found sounds

"Recorded May 2003
A sonic exploration of concrete sounds. Not loud at all. Simple-minded attitude. Objects treated as instruments, instruments treated as objects, etc."

creaky and clicky. Interesting compositions culled from the found sound world. Background sounds for an odd day.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

found Photos 2










The soldier standing with some older folks and the man in the photo labeled 1920 might be my favorites.

found Photos

When this blog first started it was going to be about more than music, it was going to be about found stuff too. I like to look through old stuff. I like looking at old stuff. I like finding old stuff. I came across these photos in my grandparent's basement. From what I understand my grandfather bought the house next door to his old house from an older couple that had no living relatives. With the house came all their possessions...maybe. My grandparents recently passed and part of my dealing with it process has been to look through boxes and trunks and things full of old stuff in their home. In one particular box I found a pile of stuff belonging to these neighbors. Postcards, newspaper clippings, letters, love letters, bills of sale, etc. There were also some pictures from the early 1920's that I think are pretty cool. So here are some of them. Music later. More photos later.






postings of found things.

comin' up later. photo's from the 1920's and some sort of music to go with them.

Monday, February 6, 2012

William Elliot Whitmore Live

In the same vein as that last bit of o'death, here's some live Elliot Whitmore. I also have a split seven inch with this guy and Murder By Death

sample: diggin' my grave

d/l


stream:

o'death live

I've got an o'death split 7 inch somewhere in my upstairs. They've recently allowed live recordings to show up on archive.org. so here's one:

dl


sample: low tide
stream

holophrase

http://holophrase.bandcamp.com/


this band or persons pretending to be this band followed me on twitter for some unthinkable reason. They're pretty cool sounds. You can buy their songs for just $1000 or more!

Stream them for free.


Saturday, February 4, 2012

title of blog post

Spree: An Escape From Reality (January 1, 2005)

Sides 1 and 2 released September 2004. Sides 3 and 4 in January of 2005. Full album art and information at SPREE

Acoustic instruments: piano, organ, five bells, guitar, bass, cheap shitty sounding drum kitPre-recorded sources: 87 records, 6 reel-to-reel tapes, one self-help cassette, two educational filmstripsElectronic: morse code device, vocoder, four circuit-bent sound toys, korg synth, signal generator, and other loud test equipmentAdditionally: doorbell, dishwasher, outdoor street/bug noise and a fork in a food grinderprocessed with vestax mixer, lexicon effects unit.

sample track: Dear Mr. Depieu

d/l

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A letter to my teenage son

Enjoy these.

A Letter to People from other people

God is a guide and not storm trooper.

good source of samples.