stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

Part two of the mini-series collages the plight of humanity during end times capitalism through lectures, industry videos, and a sci-fi movie along with field recordings and digital signal processing.  For further info please check out the footnotes .  

Part one of the EndTimesCapitalism mini-series collages the eschatology of technology — Artificial Intelligence, the Big Bang, consequences of capitalism, and the sci-fi classic Dune alongside field recordings and digital signal processing. For further info please check out the footnotes . 

An eleven minute binaural recording from the finish line of the Sleepy Hallow Halloween 10k (pumpkin carved by my wife).

Rosco White with a Half-Wax Blend is a slow plotting quintet of sine wave-based software instruments. It concludes a trilogy of compositions that have thought about work and labor within a musical context. Each was scored for traditional instruments and then manipulated, collaged, and recombined. This score was for a brass ensemble, but its final instrumentation features resonant pure tones, with...

The episode begins with low-slow-open synth sounds that form a disjointed, yet repetitive theme. Sonically the first section features two synths, both rich in delay and field manipulation. The second section expands on the themes, slowly at first, then accelerated, repeating with slight variations. It’s voiced by midi piano with a modest amount of synth within the reverberations. The third s...

A new composition featuring a software orchestra, computer-controlled synthesizers, and processed field recordings. The piece fully embraces traditional scoring techniques, tonality, and meter. Sonically the midi-controlled flutes, English horn, violin etc. are paired with FM synthesis to create the instrumentation. This joins and coordinates the electronic and orchestral sounds (even though they...

Towards,  is to be listened to while at work – doing tasks that you may not want to do, or monotonous tasks you like. I would suggest gardening, raking leaves, doing dishes, cleaning the house, watching tv or balancing a budget. Featuring binaural recordings of walking (in the woods, in a park, and on the train) alongside highly processed versions Chopin’s Nocturnes that have been stretched,...

This week on the stopGOstop podcast… A plot pickle or looking for a way out of the trouble we’re in,  an audio collage of a 1990 speech concerning the emerging field of climate change by Carl Sagan and the made for cable movie Deceptions (1990), accompanied by synthesizer and digital signal processing.   stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-conten...

This week on the stopGOstop podcast…  We will no not what will succeed,  an audio collage of a 1988 interview with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clark, along side the 2017 media availability of Bill Belichick, accompanied by synthesizer.   http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/we_will_no_not.mp3 stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel. Don’t forget to s...

This week on the program… there are problems that we can foresee, those that we can prepare for, those that we can dodge, those we can predict… there are others that we cause ourselves, these, the self-inflected are often the hardest. stopGOstop presents Soft Bodies,  an audio collage about war, misfortune and disaster, mostly man-made. Featuring recording about the Challenger Dis...

This week on the podcast, the exciting conclusion of special three part miniseries event, Leviathan.  Part three…o f Imagination,  listens to Pirates! Whales! Secret Government Technology! Eldorado! Hobbes! Sound Collage! and Much! Much! More!

stopGOstop is proud to present the second installment of a special three part miniseries event, Leviathan . Part two, …o f Sense,  listens to World War III, the fundamental structure of natural law and Fargo, the whale dung sniffing dog, alongside field recordings, synthesizers and electroacoustic collage. And don’t forget to stop back next week for the   the exciting conclusion, &#823...

For the next three weeks stopGOstop is proud to present a special three part miniseries event, Leviathan . Part one, …o f Man,  listens to the preparations for war, whale hunting, Pirates! and the fear of a secret government, alongside field recordings, synthesizers and electroacoustic collage. ‘Tune in’ next week for part two, …o f Sense,  and in two weeks for the the exci...

A stereo field recording from June 4, 2017 in Washington D.C. The recording begins sitting in Lafayette Square, near the North Lawn of White House. I then walked counterclockwise around the grounds of the White House (north, west, south, east, north). There is an unusually amount interference in the recording, especially present near the South Gate (14:45). I can only assume it is from the surveil...

  This week on the program, listening to a lecture on dark matter, ideas about how to gain universal knowledge, field recordings and zombies! stopGOstop is pleased to present the new audio collage —  Give it to him or not, as you please.

To or at a distance , a new composition for headphones featuring churning, rustling, buzzing, humming, crickets, a river, and a bowed string.

This week on the program, listening to the Mississippi River, CAT6 cabling techniques, rope working and rigging, a lecture about cities in early capitalism and a Peter Gabrial! stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled I’m just jumping all over the place .

This week on the program, listening to Rube Goldberg machines, Isaac Asimov, ideas about artificial intelligence, and a couple of cover songs. stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled  Don’t forget the happy thoughts .

This week on the program, listening to ideas about necessary connection, revolution, the commons, and UFOs. stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled  The commons don’t fall from the sky .

A stereo field recording from October 2016 in Pacific, Missouri. The recording of Union Pacific No. 844 approaching, sitting and then leaving, was made at the intersection of First Street and the train tracks.

This week on the program – a president, protesters, the police, and the press – stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled   I Want A Million Subscribers.  

This week on the program – Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, the mysteries of time and space, game design, emotional development – listening to different ways of modeling the universe and Disco! stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled  Harmony of the Worlds. Check out these other episodes 039: I had an epiphany… 036: What is Keeping You Awake Right Now 026: The Omega Banker...

A binaural field recording from this past June in Amsterdam… the recording begins sitting in a plaza near the Athenaeum book store reading Children of Time , a fantastic evolutionary scifi book I purchased earlier that day. I then walked for a while until eventually I got hungry and I ordered a slice of New York Style Pizza… I ate the slice to EDM. The remainder of the recording is of wandering my...

This week on the program – listening to the the science of glacier change, Greenland, a lecture on Truman’s choice, a hypothetical nuclear attack, accompanied by digital signal processing – stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled  No one has the answer, but everyone has the answer.   

A stereo recording of a bike ride from Orchard Beach to our house in Mount Vernon. This is a photo of my old bike. I have upgraded to a matte black single speed. I have not tricked it out with reflective tape… yet.