Listen Closely

It goes like this: use a random word generator to source ten sounds from freesound.org. Then, combine them together to make an interesting sound.

"A religion, almost a religion, any religion, a quintal in religion, a relying and a surface and a service in indecision and a creature and a question and a syllable in answer and more counting and no quarrel and a single scientific statement and no darkness and no question and an earned administration and a single set of sisters and an outline and no blisters and the section seeing yellow and the centre having spelling and no solitude and no quaintness and yet solid quite so solid and the single surface centred and the question in the placard and the singularity, is there a singularity, and the singularity, why is there a question and the singularity why is the surface outrageous, why is it beautiful why is it not when there is no doubt, why is anything vacant, why is not disturbing a centre no virtue, why is it when it is and why is it when it is and there is no doubt, there is no doubt that the singularity shows."

Excerpts from the poem Tender Buttons, part 3, "Rooms" by Gertrude Stein. Reading by Ariane Stolfi, in preparation to be performed at the Web Audio Conference in Berlin (19-21 September 2018).

Words for this exercise included:

Iron

Bake

Social

Conservative

Microphone

Demonstrator

Item

Quaint

Hello from the street, the tunnels, and a basement full of jazz.

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A chance for something new, and a chance to do something over. I ask the question: how do you leave a place properly?

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In the 1940s, Osamu Tezuka was drawing manga panels in his spare time when he realized something: due to government censorship, nobody was willing to talk about the problems that led to WWII. And so, with a pen in hand, he set to change that -- and what he created ended up changing the world.

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Roll a pair of dice. Make a 1-minute doodle inspired by that number. Guest prompt from Rob Rosenthal and Gwen.

Audio Playground is masterfully put together by Sarah Geis, "a radio and podcast maker, editor, and teacher working in Chicago and beyond." Find more information at https://www.audioplayground.xyz/hello

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What do you know about Pentecostalism? Growing to 200 million people in the last 100 years, it's a spirited and feisty sect. But it's famous for more than its growth -- its fervent prayer, isolationism, and belief in the "gifts of the spirit" make it one of the most controversial -- and cultic -- Christian faiths. In this upcoming short-run documentary, I explore my upbringing in the Pentecostal church and speak with other ex-Pentecostals about why they left. And why they believe it's a cult. 

"No man ever steps in the same [ocean] twice, for it's not the same [ocean] and he's not the same man." A routine post-vacation phone call diverges into that tricky exercise of remembering. And as Rachel Carson reminds us, can anything remember more than the ocean?

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A compilation of the sounds that defined the tempestuous and exhilarating year, 2020. 

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I find a trove of tape for a project that never materialized. This is audio behind the scenes, before the cuts, in their context and without it. Choo choo.

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Moving in the middle of a pandemic is freeing, but it ain't easy. 

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