stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

A walk in the park; computer generated midi composition, sine waves, manipulations and miscellaneous signal processing; waiting for the snow to melt; doing laundry; thinking about The Cherry Orchard .

A drive to Peekskill, NY; fragments of 1950’s interstate highway propaganda films; a re-arrangement of a musical reflection of James Turrell; Episode 114 of the podcast is a new composition created from fragments, pieced together through careful listening and in the spirit of James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer,self-trained naturalist and founder of modern geology.

Dinosaurs! Unit Vectors! Shotgun Microphones! Frankenstein in outerspace! and more! stopGOstop presents A rock, a man and a connection , a new sound collage.

Dragnet! Apollo 11! George Kublers! the Lake Worth Monster! and more! stopGOstop presents  I can not shake the theory that something is going to happen , a new sound collage.

The dull edge, the slow night, the stoical tones, the long breath. In the middle of winter a new composition for computer-controlled sine waves and field recordings.

stopGOstop presents The scale of the issue or the deepest shallow , an audio collage featuring recording about Charles Darwin, 4K televisions, the environment, materialism, the Cult of Pan, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more!!!! stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/110.mp3 Scroll down the the end of the post fo...

Moving in and out of public spaces, episode 109 of the podcast is a sound collage of binaural field recordings.

This week the program pairs a composition I wrote while sitting in the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center with field recordings of riding public transportation in Los Angles.

This week on the program 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 .

This week on the program, synchronicity, retcon (retroactive continuity), tracing your ancestry through DNA tests, and STS-131,the first space shuttle after the Columbia disaster and much much more! stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled When I talk with Ivan I feel very good . http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/106.mp3 stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. Here is a ...

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A better place .  Featuring recording about- aluminum, the history of cans, subscription model of capital, the economics of the an Anthropocene, and much much more footnotes

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents The best way to start the day .  Featuring recording about- correlationism, how to write a novel, humans are not from earth, morning pages, and the invasion of Iraq. footnotes

breaking apart concrete blocks, a bit of feedback, a slow sine wave melody, erosion, moving rocks into a bucket, turning a burner on to boil water, a model railroad train zipping around the track, sitting at a suburban restaurant owned by an astronaut.

1. (drawing a large circle on the stage with his staff) 2. Here I am and am no I. This circle in all, these change changing in winterless, a dawn with an image of, an autumn change with a change of mist. 3. A cotton manufacturer… who decided to forgo his old waterwheel and invest in a steam engine,  erect a chimney and order coal from a nearby pit did not, in all likelihood, entertain the po...

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A welcome relief or an interruption,  an audio collage featuring recording about the National Interstate Defense and Highways, Pittsburgh, James Baldwin, Eisenhower, Mahler, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more! Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.    

This week on the podcast the third of three new compositions for midi instruments and field recordings.

  This week on the podcast the second of three new compositions for midi instruments and field recordings.

  This week on the podcast the first of three new compositions for spring.

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A Coupled System,  a sound collage featuring recording about the fires, black holes and more.

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Songs of the Damned,  an audio collage. Featuring recording about the American Empire, the Ice Age, Norman Rockwell, Magic the Gathering, the digital future and much much more! stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. Here is a  link  to a playlist of the source material. http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/96.mp3 Don’t forget to subs...

Episode 95 takes the speech and rhythmic patterns of episode 94, Arcadia , and uses it as data points, as signal to create voltage envelopes, as a way to create patterns and tones. The title is extracted from Thomas Moore’s Utopia , I have pasted a longer passage below. They sailed before with great caution, and only in summer time; but now they count all seasons alike, trusting wholly to th...

A sound collage featuring Space 1999, Vice President Wallace, Triangles, Gravity, and Bayes Rule alongside field recordings and digital signal manipulation. stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/94.mp3 Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link  RSS , or search for wanzel in itunes Follow me on twitter @JohnWanzel If you li...

A collage of binaural and stereo field recordings: a walk near my house in Mount Vernon, NY; a recording from my backyard as I trim a few trees; a recording alongside the a man-made lake near Highway 44 in suburban St. Louis; a recording of a walk back to work after lunch; among others. The tones are made through using a tone gate on the recordings, so when the wind creates a bit of mic noise, it...

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Unbalanced Force,  the second of a series of related episodes about the Moon. Featuring recording about- rotation in space, the circle of fifths, Pythagoras, the speed of the earth through the universe, the moon as a malfunctioning sun and much more. stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.

This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Semi-Western Grip,  an audio collage about the truth and consequences of a moving frame of reference. This is the first of a pair of related podcasts about the Moon. Featuring recording about the moon, motorhomes, time and space, Australia, field recordings, tennis lessons, and so much more!  stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. Here is a link...