Field Mic

A sound art and music blog. Submissions welcomed.

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Just uploaded Wildness to Mixcloud. Listen now!

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Just uploaded Accidentals to Mixcloud. Listen now!

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The Invention of Ambient Music - The New Yorker

Meet Harmonia, the obscure nineteen-seventies German supergroup that influenced David Bowie and Brian Eno.

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Diamondstein gives a face to the spirit behind a conscious machine.

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Exquisite Sound Corpse

I’m coordinating a game of Exquisite Sound Corpse over on Twitter & Soundcloud. Follow #ExquisiteSndCorpse and me, @cranksatori, on Twitter for updates.

Exquisite Sound Corpse:

The first participant will create a recording of two minutes or less, and then cut off the last three seconds and post that file to their Soundcloud account. The next participant will then use that three seconds to start a recording of two minutes or less, cut off the last three seconds, and post it to their Soundcloud account for the next person, and so on until the last participant has finished their individual sections. Once everyone has finished their tracks, all participants will post their full tracks to their individual Soundcloud accounts, and I will combine the end results into one playlist.

All tracks will be tagged: “Exquisite Sound Corpse” and “Exquisite Sound Corpse Round XXX” on Soundcloud

Participants for Round One volunteered between 10 to 11 PM CST on Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 and consist of the following individuals:

@AndOtherness  @tinypyramids  @MintcakeTime  @cinchel  @postsilence  @WhalesOfJupiter  @disquiet  @stringbot

If all goes well, I’ll put out the call for Round Two when the first round is finished, so there should be more opportunities to participate as things progress.

Thanks to hellocatfood for reminding me about the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse and sending me off on this tangent.

[cinchel]

Looking forward to this. Should be fun. 👍🐱🎼🌈

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Leon Bridges - Lisa Sawyer (live at Sofar Dallas)

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Colleen - Captain of None

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Janek Schaefer's calm collage of foundsound places to underscore your personal spaces.

[engineeringhistory]

Audion Piano, 1915. The Audion was the first musical instrument to use vacuum tubes, laying the blueprint of electronic synthesizers until the development of the transistor.

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Peacocks' tails make noises too low for humans to hear

When peacocks shiver their tail feathers, it’s not just that rustling sound they’re making. Some researchers found that they’re making an ultrasonic noise so low-pitched we can’t hear it, even though it’s about as loud as a car going past just a few feet away. The researcher who discovered this said he “got the idea when he visited a local zoo and saw a peacock shaking its tail at a concrete wall. Initially baffled, he realised that the huge tail looked a bit like a satellite dish, and wondered if the bird was listening to itself.”

I always like thinking about how much animal communication we just still have no idea about. This is a pretty cool one. 

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Lucas Abela - Gamelan Wizard Mofo 2015

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@disquiet compiled an imaginary "Selected Ambient Works Volume 3" from Apex Twin's soundcloud account.

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Nicolas Jaar Re-Scores 1969 Armenian Avant-Garde Film “The Color Of Pomegranates”

via booooooom

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Farrah Karapetian

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Jennifer Cantwell. Letter home, 2011

[::SemAp FB || SemAp::]

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Side A: Rococo modern classical crescendo. Side B: Ambient and downtempo electronic mixed with lonely ballads.

This mix CD (edition of 25), was given away at ASCII 6, a group show at The Franklin, Chicago IL. 

Amapola Dust - Alejandra & Aeron  Will There Be Any - Jerry Jeff Walker Cendre - Collin Vallon Trio A Box of 78’s - Dinahbird Paula - CP field recording I’m always the guy going to the motor” he says. - The Willo Collective Toilet Brushes – More - Nils Frahm The War (Zero's Theme) - Alexandre Desplat The Word for the World is Forest by Ursula k Leguin, read by Lawrence Ballard The Clear Realization - Man Forever & So Percussion 

Haenim (edit) Kim Jung Hi Gratitude - Teebs  Here I Am - The Maxin Trio Early Drive to a Private Lagoon - Geotic Ending - Bruce Langhorn For Your Precious Love - Otis Redding XR21 - Ssaliva  Let the Silence Float - Deru Florid (Brambles mix) - Benoît Pioulard Night Owls - Roy Orbison Our - Actress Rhodeos - Bus Over Inlaid - Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello Monologue - Lee Hazlewood Vacant - World’s End Girlfriend

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I of IV - Pauline Oliveros

Composed in 1966, this work is a good example of Oliveros' earlier electronic music. A configuration of tape recorders is cross-patched into each other, each recorder having a magnetic tape loop running on it. This makes for a type of "automatic generation" system, with everything feeding back throughout the whole circuit. Similar to Richard Maxfield's procedure, Oliveros obtains the sound of the bias frequencies of tape recorders combined with the difference, or lower "ghost tones", produced by the interference of very high frequencies. The effect is of massive waves of tones. [allmusic.com]