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found, mixed. 1. kolkheti ensemble sings ‘orovela,’ a georgian plowing song. 2. the chimes of rostov, excerpts with narration, on the melodiya label. 3. there is an argument on the street below my window. 4. ‘pamiętaj’ (remember), sung by chór dana, found in a thrift store in chicago.

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images. a portfolio of images, each composed from a found view of the icy arctic, serving partly as a technical exploration of digital interpolation and partly as an evocative fantasy of crystalline symmetries. software confabulated many of the pixels in these images, but i ‘made’ them. right?

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video. interleaved frames from video that was taken going both up and down the waterfront steps in odessa made famous in the film battleship potemkin. the day was hot, the hour early, and the dogs were still asleep. the waterfront is now obscured by a car dealership and a sign directing passersby to a nearby grocery.

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field. in the jungles of angkor, among the innumerable temples of the angkor wat complex, the pervasive sounds are these: motor bikes, souvenir hawkers, roadside musicians, and — most of all — the eerie, disorienting chorus of whistling cicadas

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video. three short sequences of camera shots from the film battleship potemkin are reduced to their individual frames. the frames of I. are directly altered, while II. and III. are re-ordered or interleaved according to mathematical patterns chosen at whim.

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1. captured quickly between trains and without a way to dampen wind effects, the tramontana wind last december at portbou, spain. 2. a collage of orchestral sounds. 3. a song called “Бишек йыры,” (bishek jyry) presumably sung in the bashkir language, transferred from an old vinyl recording.

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here is a new version of a work created two years ago as part of a commission from czech radio. it was while working on the earlier version that we arrived at the idea for the nula project. it is offered here with our best wishes for the new decade. (thanks to r(a)dio(custica) and john heck.)

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optical sound, such as that found along the length and at the very edge of old films, is paradoxical. it is sound that you can see. and, of course, you can hear it, too, along with the blemishes that time and use wreak on aging acetate. here we explore this fascination in some depth.

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it’s around midnight, and people have gathered in a darkened room for the clacking of old slide projectors that throw colorful shadows on the walls, dim reminders of what was once real. twelve hours later, church bells ring in the town square. either way, it’s twelve o’clock.

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field recording. it is a hot october day. as the train leaves hua lamphong station on the way east to poipet, the passengers ready their tickets at the sound of the ticket taker’s clacking hole-punch. meanwhile, the crowded train passes thru the congested outer reaches of bangkok’s urban sprawl.

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a collection of still images from no place in particular presented as a series of cryptic fragments. use the red link to download the pdf booklet (please view in “book mode”), or simply view the slideshow in your browser (a 1280-pixel-wide screen or greater is recommended).

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found. in almaty, a city at the foot of the zailiysky alatau mountain range, is a museum devoted to the musical instruments of the kazakh people. there, in a russian-style wooden structure known once as the “officer’s house”, may be found a man singing and playing the dombyr, a type of two-stringed lute. afterward, he will offer to sell you an unlabelled cassette, undoubtedly self-recorded, that includes a slip of typewritten notes. here are selections from that cassette, completely authentic, and signed, “abylai”.

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1. pha suam waterfall, near pakse, champasak province, lao people’s republic. 2. an extremely time-stretched and chorused single electric guitar chord. 3. metro station želivského in prague (thanks to steev hise for assistence).

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field recording. at four in the morning, from the berth of a sleeper car rolling thru the night, somewhere in the slovakian tatras between bratislava and poprad, these are some of the sounds you might hear.

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video. 1. field recordings and images from a metro station in central kiev. 2. found footage from NASA of the re-entry of a rocket fuel tank, from ejection to splashdown. 3. rain and music from an old film.

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it is said that marconi, the inventor of radio, came to believe as he grew old that sounds never die, becoming instead ever fainter until we can no longer hear them. thus, given a device of sufficient sensitivity, any sound from the past could be recaptured. … who’s to say that he was wrong?

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a meadow, a public park, a bus station waiting room on a rainy morning, and the streets of a city at night are the backdrop for a series of extended studies using a few notes from a gnossienne or two.

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1. outside a radio station along the mekong river in kratie, cambodia, around midnight. 2. in which wire recording is demonstrated at a social gathering in 1948. 3. an old serbian phonograph record sings a duet with itself.

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