stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

For the Country Entirely is a sonic re-staging of the Gertrude Stein short story of the same name. The piece is voiced by Anna Benavides, Brian Taylor and John Wanzel. Sounds and text were arranged and edited by John Wanzel.

The piece was created for Erik Belgum’s softpalate in celebration of the roughly 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s Geography and Plays. This piece and five others were released in around 2002 on ubu web.

The beach, bombs, parachutes, gunfire and a song. The 24 hours of the D-Day invasion has been compressed into one.

The second in the ad hoc War Trilogy- DDAY60 first aired on The 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion (June 2004) as part of the Blind Spot radio program. Featuring the voices of John Wanzel and Brian Taylor with Peter Rosenbloom on cello and Jacob Christopher on computer, engineered by Philip von Zweck, written, composed and produced by John Wanzel.

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122: The Forest
A slow circular conversation that occasionally paraphrases Shakespeare and Chekhov, to create a lamentation to work, aging and trying to talk to those around you. Featuring a binaural recording of a walk in Long Island City, Queens, and a quintet of midi-based instruments.

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, backyard gardening, growing greens in near-earth orbit, the year 3001, in conjunction with digital signal processing.

107: Santa Monica Piers
A binaural field recording — a walk on the beach; under the pier; a few hundred yards and back again; up to the pier; watching the bumper cars, the roller coasters; a woman sings I’ve already made it.

stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.

In the future… Charlton Heston’s unfrozen head is the last banker in a communists dystopia; a story about studdering, language and new years; interviews about the United States; a song about jetpacks.

The Omega Banker first aired in July of 2000 on the Something Else ( WLUW 88.7 Chicago 1995 – 2010), hosted by Philip von Zweck . It is the first of the ad hoc War Trilogy. I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s and re-releasing them on the podcast.

The piece features the voice talents of Jen Crouse, Carrie Harold, Doug McHoney, and John Wanzel. It was written by James Zika and John Wanzel and produced by John Wanzel. About 50 minutes.

A binaural field recording of walking around London, I start inside a starbucks in High Holborn. I had hopes of recording the entire journey to Greenwich, but the batteries ran out after about 19 minutes.

A binaural field recording of sitting near the Thames River path. I was walking from High Holborn to Greenwich and stopped for a rest. It was a long walk. The episode is about 6 minutes long.

The third work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, I haven’t been to Philidephia, it’ll be alright, was produced in 2004 for the Blind Spot radio program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the voice talents of Eric Humphrey, Brian Taylor and Carolina Wheat. Engineered by Philip von zweck. Written, composed and produced by John Wanzel.

I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s and re-releasing them on the podcast. A version of I haven’t been.. was written as a website in 2003 for a now defunct web-zine, I have posted the original html here.

A story about love and the 16th president of the United States. Cardiac Lincoln is the second work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging some of my older work as part of this podcast.

It was originally written and preformed in 2003. This recording is from a slightly revised version that was produced in 2005 for the Blind Spot Radio Program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the talents of Brian Taylor, Eric Humphreys, Jake Quickel, Lisa Miller and Jenny Walters. Composed, written and produced by John Wanzel.

The first work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging of old work for the stopGOstop podcast.

Pear is an experimental sound piece for radio that consists of a series of narrative and sonic vignettes. The piece 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. Written and directed by John Wanzel featuring the voices of Anna Benavides, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel, Produced by John Wanzel. It was engineered by Pete Wenger at Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL) This piece was made possible through the 2001 Experimental Sound Studio Residency Program, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. This project was supported by a Community Arts Assistant Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council Access Program (2002). Pear was also selected to participate in the 2002 Outer Ear Festival of Sound, Chicago, IL.

A rebroadcast of the Blind Spot radio program from December 11, 2005, and evening of landscapes, some real, some imagined. Microlandscapes features the talents of Richard Holland, Anna Clark, Peter Rosenbloom, Eric Humpherys, Brian Taylor, Philip von Zweck, and John Wanzel.

I am re-releasing some old sound work from the 2000’s on this podcast along side new field recordings and sound art.

A binaural field recording in Hyde Park, walking from just outside the Serpentine to the winter carnival. I wandered in the park a bit. It is about 30 minutes.