Archive for the 'field recording' Category

martabak

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

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I gave N. my sound recorder and a good microphone and asked her to bring me back sounds from the Pasar Malam Besar. Which she did. Apart from a few keroncong tracks, she brought back this recording, of six cooks making martabak at Warung Semarang. Much [...]

market

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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My dharma hero, Patrul Rinpoche, signs his songs with “the crazy speech of a fool in the marketplace”. I love markets, I love being in them: I used to photograph fish and vegetables, the buyers and the sellers. Now I listen more: markets are places of [...]