stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

Episode 118 starts with a two minute recording of the Atlantic Ocean moves underground to the One train, traveling south in Manhattan, it continues with a recording of a desk chair being moved back and forth on linoleum, then the sounds of a resting steam engine, with an uptempo piano, and a slow and steady synth… a sixteen minute collage of synthesized sounds along side field and foley recordings, about motion, man-made and otherwise.

An extended version of this episode aired on July 21, 2019 as episode #683 of the Framework radio program. Please visit their website for the recording and more info.

A new composition for headphones featuring field and foley recordings, counting and computer-based polyphonic synthesization. 

My thoughts aim west, combining a field recording made on the Los Angles Public Transportation’s Expo Line, with a new composition for computer generated piano, and small midi instrument ensemble. For download, here is the score for part one of the composition.

A walk in the park; computer generated midi composition, sine waves, manipulations and miscellaneous signal processing; waiting for the snow to melt; doing laundry; thinking about The Cherry Orchard.

A drive to Peekskill, NY; fragments of 1950’s interstate highway propaganda films; a re-arrangement of a musical reflection of James Turrell; Episode 114 of the podcast is a new composition created from fragments, pieced together through careful listening and in the spirit of James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer,self-trained naturalist and founder of modern geology.

Dinosaurs! Unit Vectors! Shotgun Microphones! Frankenstein in outerspace! and more! stopGOstop presents A rock, a man and a connection, a new sound collage.

Dragnet! Apollo 11! George Kublers! the Lake Worth Monster! and more! stopGOstop presents  I can not shake the theory that something is going to happen, a new sound collage.

The dull edge, the slow night, the stoical tones, the long breath. In the middle of winter a new composition for computer-controlled sine waves and field recordings.

stopGOstop presents The scale of the issue or the deepest shallow, an audio collage featuring recording about Charles Darwin, 4K televisions, the environment, materialism, the Cult of Pan, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more!!!!

stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

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Moving in and out of public spaces, episode 109 of the podcast is a sound collage of binaural field recordings.