unsilent night

December 11, 2007 – 9:50 am
By lodro | Also posted in freesound, incidental sound, phonology, sound | Comments (0)

Phil Kline talks about unsilent night
“Every year since 1992 I’ve presented UNSILENT NIGHT, an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we don’t sing, but rather carry the music, each of us playing a separate track that is a “voice” in the [...]

mathias loibner in concert

September 12, 2007 – 6:34 pm
By lodro | Also posted in sound, voice | Comments (0)

Sometimes my heart skips a beat and my entire day lights up, when from the depths of Youtube something amazingly beautiful surfaces. Like this snippet of a concert by Mathias Loibner, a virtuoso on the vielle à roue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZKQf-JIvRU

the bijlmer in the rain

September 7, 2007 – 8:09 pm
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Shot from the “Huntum” appartment block. I’m posting this especially for @T: he and I both lived in the Bijlmer, but never met up…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashROXydReI

maas

September 6, 2007 – 7:21 pm
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http://scanr.net/videos/maas.mov

jovano jovanke by “svara”

September 1, 2007 – 8:22 pm
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“Jovano Jovanke” was the song my teacher used to teach me how to do balkan singing. I still love it and sing it:
http://davidtrasoff.com/svara_mp3s/4%20Jovano%20Jovanke.mp3

ajde jano: come on, jana, let’s dance the kolo

September 1, 2007 – 7:15 pm
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Serbian evergreen “ajde jano”, here played by Narodna
http://scanr.net/audio/ajde_jano.mp3
For those wanting to sing along, or karaoke to this hypnotic tune:

Ajde Jano, Kolo Da Igramo
(Serbian Words)

Come on Jana, Let’s Dance the Kolo
(English Translation)

Verse 1
Ajde Jano, kolo da igramo.
Ajde Jano, [...]

there’s an idiot in the market place

August 28, 2007 – 8:39 pm
By lodro | Also posted in dharma, incidental sound, modality, poetry, rumi, sound, tawasuf, voice | Comments (0)

for e.
http://scanr.net/videos/market.mov

writing with sound: tdgale

August 27, 2007 – 6:15 pm
By lodro | Also posted in freesound, incidental sound, interfaces, modality, poetry, sound, voice | Comments (0)

tdgale explores sound as a narrative medium side by side as it were to still imagery. Soundscapes include libraries, multi channel installations, collaborative projects and installations exploring the possibilities of hyper sonic sound, a technique that uses narrowly focused beams of sound in such a way that sound is only audible within the beam’s column. [...]

on transom: not guilty, life after exoneration

August 26, 2007 – 8:13 pm
By lodro | Also posted in freesound, poetry, sound | Comments (0)

Transom “is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.” Amongst a wealth of audiplays and sound documentaries, there’s also a number of sound enabled slide shows that offer a very interesting interplay between sound and image.
“Not Guilty, Life After Exoneration” charts [...]

a brief mention of “sleppet”

August 26, 2007 – 5:37 pm
By lodro | Also posted in freesound, incidental sound, phonology, sound | Comments (0)

Thought I’d do a brief mention of Sleppet, a Norwegian site, where they were gracious enough to link to augmented illusions through a technorati feed. Sleppet brings together artists whose interests range from marrying visual to sound to sound recording the arctic in mid-winter. Very, very interesting artists and projects on the site, all of [...]