Is anyone missing their 80 metre Oil Tanker? “Checkout this news story.”:http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1601024.htm I find it hard to fathom how someone can misplace something this big.
So I’ve been getting outside a bit more and working on some stuff that doesn’t involve my laptop. I’ve been making rhythmic field recordings by ‘playing’ different everyday surroundings. How do you play everyday surroundings? I here you asking yourself. When you place a recorder/mic in contact or very close to your objects/surroundings it amplifies and captures sounds that are more audible than we would normally think possible from something as simple as a wire farm fence.
This is early days and I don’t even know if I will run with it. This recording features my Dad moving his car, my dog Rhani, some birds and me wrapping up the finale with a fire cracker all whilst I’m ‘Playing the Fence’. This recording is quite ambient with some very deep bass drum like sounds.
“Playing the Fence #4.mp3“:http://www.tomhall.com.au/Playing_the_Fence_4.mp3
Thursday March 23rd 2006, 8:18 pm
Filed under: Miscellaneous
Between selling stuff online, creating various projects and doing weights I’ve been getting in around 4 hours of Commonwealth Games action a day on and off. Highlights for me have varied with the top moments being John Steffani’s 400m win (my favourite distance from my track days) Brad Pitts heavey weight boxing rounds (He shapes up in the final for Gold soon) and Darrell Eastlakes commentary in the Weight Lifting. Surprisingly I’ve also been enjoying sports of a lesser note such as Lawn Bowls and Synchronised Diving (the things you do when your immobilised).
Went back to hospital yesterday for a check up. They took my cast off my leg and it felt so nice but the feeling only lasted 10 mintues and then they slammed another straight back on. They just had to take it off to make sure the wound was ok, it would seem I’m going to have a nice scar on my ankle but I don’t really mind as long as it starts working properly again.
Been doing a bit of work for my Dad, transferring old Touring Car (“see V8 Supercars”:http://www.v8supercar.com.au ) VHS tapes to DVD. For example the 1984 Sandown 500 and Bathurst, truly classic Australian car racing. One thing I can’t believe is how golden the old adds are, check this one out.
In other news, I’ve given the composing a break over the last week or so and have been jamming out live with the record button on. Here’s a pretty polished taste > “Kicker Ankle Jam”:http://www.users.on.net/~nightrider/Kicker%20Ankle%20Jam.mp3
Saturday March 18th 2006, 10:17 pm
Filed under: Art n Stuff
Today’s been rather un-eventful, surprise surprise, apart from me finding a whole bunch of quality field recording sites with some rather conceptual content.
First off I found these Field Recordings that these kids were getting in NY in 1982 at Video Arcades with the legendary SONY Walkman. No doubt that these kids would have been branded as nerds back in the day but now these recordings go down in history as an important capture of the start of gaming and 8-bit glitch arcade sounds.
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Check it towards the end, the attendant asks them what they’re recording.
“Arcade 80′s”:http://www.coinopvideogames.com/sounds/videogames01/05-defender.mp3
Yesterday I spent a really nice half hour just laying in the grass with the dog close by in our backyard. It was really nice with the sun beeming down and then I started to look at the array of life forms directly arround me, it’s quite astonishing when you really think about and take notice of your surroundings.
“Wesley Vale Backyard March 17th 3:36pm”:http://www.tomhall.com.au/WesleyVale_Backyard_March17th.mp3
Listen out towards the end, there is the un-mistakable sound of a Dobermann dog.
Friday March 17th 2006, 8:03 pm
Filed under: Miscellaneous
I feel like things are getting bad when I know exactly what is happening with every narrative within Home and Away. OMG I can’t believe I’m watching such a trashy show and then there’s a dose of All Saints, Prison Break and Midday Movies thrown in for good measure. All I can say is ‘Thank the Queen for the Commonwealth Games’ or I’d probably shoot myself.
Sometimes I forget why I am so fascinated with Japan but then I remember stuff like this and start thinking about how many days to go to I return.
Everything from 100ml to 3l jug served chilled, more than convenient!!!
Thursday March 16th 2006, 1:51 pm
Filed under: This & That
A little post I’ve had sitting around waiting to be published for a long time, something in this for everyone.
This blog is an extension of my visual diary, airing ideas out that may need feedback or generally just a good purpose to continually re-access what I am doing and why?!. I have adjusted it to suite my minimalist style so actually you will not find another blog that looks the same as mine. However, the first known blog appeared back in 1996 on the net so in no regards am I the first to have a blog nor the last. If you want to think about originality in terms of existence technically neither you nor me are original, I suspect that’s why it’s appealing to want to be an artist but even that’s debatibly un-original.
A field recording starting at approximately 5:07pm March 9th 2006. Southern End of the Devonport Mall. At 5:15 recorder crosses Stewart St. proceeding along Rooke St. turning into King St. were recording finishes.
“Devonport Mall – Field Recording (Come Over to My World)”:http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3PGJPPH6GH7QI1TPXI7MK3PEPI