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Morning Bathtub Ramblings. October 17, 2020.

Life Is the Poem That Is Writing Us To Death

I posted this image to Facebook last night, then deleted it. I’ve never been uncomfortable...

I’ve been sorting and quasi-organizing my bottomless pit (or is it an ocean?) of audio I’ve recorded the last couple of years. It’s amazing how much there is to forget. I had been at the piano for several hours a day, recording music and peppering it with my commentary and such. It wasn’t awful but […]

Shower Talk: I’ll Never Know What Happened

I’m not proud of what I am discussing here, but I’ll move on. Going to try and dump some of the shower talk tracks into a Shoutcast stream. Such a daunting seeming task with so many hours recorded, and so much to edit out. This sounds OK to me, how’s it sound to you? These […]

Best Subway Sounds I’ve Heard in a While

I have been walking around these days with 3D/Binaural microphones and a field recorder, catching what interesting sounds I can and rambling to myself about important matters of the day. It seems that the 1% rule remains intact, as I barely use any of the audio for one reason or another. This stretch of sound […]

I Think I Captured The Music

I’ve heard music coming from interactions between an air filter and a box fan. The sound plagues me when I try to sleep without aid of booze. Sometimes it sounds like dixieland jazz, other times it’s Steve Reich. I have not captured the music from those two devices but I seem to have unwittingly snagged […]

“Impressive” Revisited

I did not realize I actually published a post last week titled “Impressive”. I thought I had saved it as a draft for later follow up. That posting contains the content of an email I received from someone who had inquired about a specific issue of The Etude, the music magazine which had taken up a […]

Joe Frank Died

Audio from the day I heard Joe Frank died.

At the Casino Two Years Ago. My Former Favorite Binaural Track, Reconsidered.

I don’t know if it’s just that I know better what I am doing now, or if my gear last year was not up to snuff. But this recording of me at Resorts World Casino, with a couple of binaural mics around my neck, had been my favorite track until I listened to it again […]

I Order a Bagel

I keep soldiering on with processing and editing all this audio I’ve collected. In this piece I enter a bagel shop and order a bagel. With a new set of mics I can accumulate these sounds with less conspicuity. My previous mics were over-ear headphones that I wrapped in windscreens normally used on Schurr brand […]

Food Court at Queens Place Mall, and Something About Elvis

Maybe this sort of thing is not as interesting to others as I seem to think, but I like listening to this stuff. It’s recorded in 3D/binaural audio. This particular recording might not be that interesting from the 3D perspective but there are times when listening to sound recorded binaurally feels more real than actually […]

At the Mausoleum

This is audio I made back in May, edited somewhat for length but still maybe a little too long. As with most audio I do these days it’s recorded using 3D/binaural mics, though in this case I don’t think it brings much to the experience.

New Gear

An early Christmas gift arrived today in the form of a professional set of 3D/binaural microphones that I plan to use. I’ve been using a passable set of mics that create too much noise when in motion. They were stupid cheap but they should continue to work well for stationary recordings. I’ve been making Shower […]

“Etude” Rambles

In which I pick through and discard duplicate copies of the “Etude” music magazine, rambling about what a colossal waste of time the project ended up being for me, while at the same time thinking underneath my breath that there might still be something salvageable in all the industry I put into that. Interesting how […]

Subway Sounds, Thanksgiving Day

I walked from home to Queens Place Mall on Thanksgiving Day. It stirred up a lot of memories, some good but most not. Some years ago, somewhere along that path, I blacked out. It was hot as hell but I don’t think that was a contributing factor. I was simply walking one direction and then, […]

Going to Vote

In this audio I said voter turnout was better than expected. It must have just been the moment. Only 12% turnout today, about the lowest ever. Voting is always fun for me. I can be a little sanctimonious about American’s obligation to vote, but really it is a privilege. Going to sleep.