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loops looping ... and big strings

Someone mentioned to me once that they thought ‘the money track’ on albums was usually Track 3. A cursory glance over some albums suggest that that may be the case. But there is something about the thrill of dropping the stylus and having Track 1 jump out the gates with all its bluster and swag. A great opening track has always done wonders to get me itchin’, twitchin’and jumpin’! For those playin...

Another selection in this series of experimental ballads, challenging toe-tappers and olden goldies from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Tammy Faye Bakker, Diane Wakoski, Severed Heads, Throbbing Gristle, Charlie Feathers, Louise Huebner, Asphixiation, No Night Sweats, Lydia Lunch & Big Sexy Noise, Hank, Stu, Dave &Hank, Beatle Barkers, COIL, Scattered Order, Cathy Berberian and The Birthday Party.

‘The Colonisation of Language : A Phraseology in Five Parts’ explores aspects of oral storytelling and how the influence of colonisation can corrupt language and the sense of an origin story through multiple iterations over time. In much of my sound work, I’m drawn to the spoken word and was immediately drawn to the characteristics within the vocal utterances contained in the 1962 original field r...

Creative practitioners are increasingly engaged in exploring the opportunities that mobile media technologies afford them to generate new forms of language and aesthetic experiences (Berry & Schleser eds 2014, p 2). Most commonly, this type of practice is in the realm of digital storytelling, image-based collaboration and re-presenting metadata visually. The work, 60 seconds of #life and #death co...

“All radio Is dead”, is a phrase I have often heard spoken in recent years as listening habits have changed with the proliferation of on-demand audio services such as music streaming, podcasts and similar programming. It is not a belief that I share. Like many people, I still listen to live FM/AM and Web radio for its sense of immediacy, for its connectedness in real time to my local and my global...

This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights. The project presents the sounds of 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage – all reimagined by artists from around the world to create a brand new way of experiencing these spaces. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage **...

Someone mentioned to me once that they thought ‘the money track’ on albums was usually Track 3. A cursory glance over some albums suggest that that may be the case. But there is something about the thrill of dropping the stylus and having Track 1 jump out the gates with all its bluster and swag. A great opening track has always done wonders to get me itchin’, twitchin’, jumpin’ and howling at the...

For the : Cities and Memory Sounding Nature project is the biggest ever global exploration of the beautiful sounds of nature, covering 55 countries with almost 500 sounds. The sounds have been reimagined by 250 artists to reflect upon the damage being done to our natural world by human-generated sounds. https://citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/ The file selected for me was chosen at random (003...

The Smithsonian Treasures project sees sound artists and musicians all over the world producing a series of compositions inspired by individual works from the Smithsonian collection, the world’s largest museum complex – reimagining images and scenes of history, art, science and culture through sound. https://citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian/ **Valentino : Pale Hands, Where Are You Now? ** The sepia...

Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno **A Slow Hot Kiss of Wind** addresses the elemental environment in the zone of the Lustful into which Dante enters early into his journey. It is an environment where classical figures, “those dames and knig...

for Cities and Memory Spring project : https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/ The original field recording : Old Souks Night Market, Aswan, Egypt recorded by Rafael Diogo : is the the sound of a busy and chaotic market with traders calling out, pedestrian and vehicle sounds punctuated by either a radio or live performance of traditional song which is captured as the recordist moves through the spa...

Dame Joan Sutherland goes to Mulholland Drive

Another instalment in an ongoing series of some favourite selections from various tv/movie/stage soundtracks and dialogue - remixed and reimagined. SOUNDSTRIPE Vol. 6 features tracks/dialogue from : #TouchOfEvil #RoboCop #MulhollandDrive #AmericanBeauty #TheDevils #Harlots #LesGarçonSauvages #Dark #AmericanHorrorStoryCoven #FellinisCasanova #DieGlasharmonika #Poison #TheAndromedaStrain #FunnyLady...

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In this show deep from the archives, mr. K speaks with Gayle Austin of [Curved Radio](http://www.curvedradio.com/) about the work of Judy Nylon & Patti Palladin aka SNATCH, their significance as collaborators and their enduring influence as movers and shakers in the London / NY music arts scene of the mid 1970s / early 1980's. Tracks from SNATCH, Judy Nylon (solo) and Brian Eno with SNATCH are pla...

Video : https://youtu.be/zC-EGWsi-nk Social media networks have become key systems for commentary on celebrity culture as well as sites for creative practitioners to generate new forms of aesthetic language and experience (Berry & Schleser eds 2014). Fan and news outlet commentary around the death of a high profile person is known to generate an upsurge of activity in the Twitter community (den Bu...

sampling Susan Hayward from *I Want To Live* (1958)

Creative practitioners are increasingly engaged in exploring the opportunities that mobile media technologies afford them to generate new forms of language and aesthetic experiences (Berry & Schleser eds 2014, p 2). Most commonly, this type of practice is in the realm of digital storytelling, image-based collaboration and re-presenting metadata visually. The work, 60 seconds of #life and #death co...

various movies samples on top of a sound bed of tap drips effected with a little haunting reverb

sampling Joan Crawford from "Strait-Jacket" (1964)

experimenting with samples drawn from the string section and vocal in Barbra Streisand's version of 'Windmills of Your Mind'

sampling and editing Barbra Streisand, Renee Geyer & Pat Collins - The Hip Hypnotist

**Another instalment in an ongoing series of some favourite selections from various tv/movie/stage soundtracks and dialogue - remixed and mashed. ** **mr. K's Soundstripe Vol. 5** features tracks/dialogue from : Company, Alien, The Horse Whisperer, Walk On The WildSide, Witchfinder General, Revolutionary Road, The Conversation, Carrie, Let's Make Love, Fried Green Tomatoes, La Planete Sauvage, In...