stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

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stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art episodes

  • 097: A Coupled System

    This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A Coupled System, a sound collage featuring recording about the fires, black holes and more.

    25 min
  • 096: Songs of the Damned

    This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Songs of the Damned, an audio collage. Featuring recording about the American Empire, the Ice Age, Norman Rockwell, Magic the Gathering, the digital future and much much more!

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.

    http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/96.mp3

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    If you liked episode 91, you may also enjoy these past episodes:

    Episode 069: Harmony of the Worlds
     Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, the mysteries of time and space, game design, emotional development – listening to different ways of modeling the universe and Disco!

    Episode 064: Farmers of the Fields of Stars

     On earth and in outer space, an audio collage about technology, family and foodstuff. Featuring interviews and audio about the history of farming, 1970s tractors, learning to drive a tractor, backyard gardening, lettuce in near earth orbit, the year 3001, and Dead Space 2 in conjunction with digital signal processing.

    Episode 038: I don’t know if there’s an answer to this

     A trip to the moon, a march in the field, and the social and political power of empathy.

    32 min
  • 095: Trusting wholly to the loadstone

    Episode 95 takes the speech and rhythmic patterns of episode 94, Arcadia, and uses it as data points, as signal to create voltage envelopes, as a way to create patterns and tones. The title is extracted from Thomas Moore’s Utopia, I have pasted a longer passage below.

    They sailed before with great caution, and only in summer time; but now they count all seasons alike, trusting wholly to the loadstone, in which they are, perhaps, more secure than safe; so that there is reason to fear that this discovery, which was thought would prove so much to their advantage, may, by their imprudence, become an occasion of much mischief to them.  But it were too long to dwell on all that he told us he had observed in every place, it would be too great a digression from our present purpose: whatever is necessary to be told concerning those wise and prudent institutions which he observed among civilised nations, may perhaps be related by us on a more proper occasion.  We asked him many questions concerning all these things, to which he answered very willingly; we made no inquiries after monsters, than which nothing is more common; for everywhere one may hear of ravenous dogs and wolves, and cruel men-eaters, but it is not so easy to find states that are well and wisely governed.

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/95.mp3

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    If you liked episode 95, you may also enjoy these past episodes:

    Episode 030: Ringing Rock State Park

    My friend Brian Taylor was in town for the art fairs so we drove to Ringing Rocks State Park. The episode is a binaural field recording of me walking around hitting rocks with a hammer for about 20 minutes. Some rocks ‘ring’ while others don’t. Brian was off in the distance casting a rock. We had a nice lunch at Ship Inn (not a part of the recording).

    Episode 021: PEAR

    The first work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging of old work for the stopGOstop podcast. Pear (2002) is concerned in general with how despair and desire effect the creation of a self that is mediated by personal and cultural experience. The text material for the project was produced by answers to fill-in-the-blank workbooks, as well as writings influenced by sections of St. Augustine’s Confession, Soren Kierkegaard’s A Sickness unto Death, and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, in light of genetic engineering, a psychobiography, along with language and computer systems.

    Episode 002: Brooklyn to Manhattan

    A binaural field recording on the N train, from 36th street Brooklyn to 42nd street Manhattan. At the time of this recording I had a studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. No introduction, about 37 minutes.

    36 min
  • 094: Arcadia

    A sound collage featuring Space 1999, Vice President Wallace, Triangles, Gravity, and Bayes Rule alongside field recordings and digital signal manipulation.

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/94.mp3

    Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or search for wanzel in itunes

    Follow me on twitter @JohnWanzel

    If you liked episode 94, you may also enjoy these past episodes:

    Episode 078: …of Man

    Part one, of the Leviathan trilogy, listens to the preparations for war, whale hunting, Pirates! and the fear of a secret government, alongside field recordings, synthesizers and electroacoustic collage.

    Episode 070: I Want a Million Subscribers

    A president, protesters, the police, and the press, an audio collage.

    Episode 060: The Use of Reading and Recording

    An audio collage featuring… 70s and 80s computers, memory tricks, and the social history of a self-selecting clan of gamers.

    36 min
  • 093: Field Notes

    A collage of binaural and stereo field recordings: a walk near my house in Mount Vernon, NY; a recording from my backyard as I trim a few trees; a recording alongside the a man-made lake near Highway 44 in suburban St. Louis; a recording of a walk back to work after lunch; among others. The tones are made through using a tone gate on the recordings, so when the wind creates a bit of mic noise, it is joined by tones and cords.

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/093-field-notes.mp3

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    Follow me on twitter @JohnWanzel

    If you liked episode 93, you may also enjoy these past episodes:

    Episode 068: Reading, walking, pizza/EDM, walking

    A binaural field recording in Amsterdam… the recording begins sitting in a plaza near the Athenaeum book store reading Children of Time, a fantastic evolutionary scifi book I purchased earlier that day. I then walked for a while until eventually I got hungry and I ordered a slice of New York Style Pizza… I ate the slice to EDM. The remainder of the recording is of wandering my way back the plaza near the bookstore. 

    Episode 048: From Rocks to Sea

    A new composition for headphones. featuring hitting ringing rocks, a bicycle, walking around a carnival, a bowed string, sitting on a plane, riding the 1 train, and walking on a beach.

    Episode 012: Central Park, Snow

    A binaural field recording of walking in Central Park after a snow storm. I start at the edge of the park, so there is some traffic noise. Once I enter the park there are horses, families playing, people talking and eventually me walking in Strawberry Fields covered in 8 inches of snow. It was a windy day, so there is some wind noise.

    46 min
  • 092: Unbalanced Force

    This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Unbalanced Force, the second of a series of related episodes about the Moon. Featuring recording about- rotation in space, the circle of fifths, Pythagoras, the speed of the earth through the universe, the moon as a malfunctioning sun and much more.

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.

    34 min
  • 091: Semi-Western Grip

    This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Semi-Western Grip, an audio collage about the truth and consequences of a moving frame of reference. This is the first of a pair of related podcasts about the Moon. Featuring recording about the moon, motorhomes, time and space, Australia, field recordings, tennis lessons, and so much more! 

    stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

    Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.

    http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/91.mp3

    Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or search for wanzel in itunes

    Follow me on twitter @JohnWanzel or friend me on facebook.com/jwanzel

    If you liked episode 91, you may also enjoy these past episodes:

    Episode 069: Harmony of the Worlds
     Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, the mysteries of time and space, game design, emotional development – listening to different ways of modeling the universe and Disco!

    Episode 064: Farmers of the Fields of Stars

     On earth and in outer space, an audio collage about technology, family and foodstuff. Featuring interviews and audio about the history of farming, 1970s tractors, learning to drive a tractor, backyard gardening, lettuce in near earth orbit, the year 3001, and Dead Space 2 in conjunction with digital signal processing.

    Episode 038: I don’t know if there’s an answer to this

     A trip to the moon, a march in the field, and the social and political power of empathy.

    37 min
  • 089: The hope that this would set them free

    Part one of the EndTimesCapitalism mini-series collages the eschatology of technology — Artificial Intelligence, the Big Bang, consequences of capitalism, and the sci-fi classic Dune alongside field recordings and digital signal processing. For further info please check out the footnotes. 

    37 min

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stopGOstop is a podcast that explores the idea that sound recordings can act as sediment — an accumulation of recorded cultural material — distributed via rss feed, and listened to on headphones. Each…