stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

This week on the program- writers block, excel, and drawing a link between Atari and using drones in battle – a fictional conversation entitled How to Kill a Yeti . Featuring field recordings, singing, digital signal processing and the voice talents of Brian Taylor and John Wanzel, it was written and produced by John Wanzel.

This week on the program – listening to how we represent ourselves while thinking of openness – vlogs, opensource, and, your personal brand, an audio collage entitled I had an epiphany on the first page or sharing with your friends even if you don’t know who they are . If you want to hear the full interviews and more please visit the footnotes .

A trip to the moon, a march in the field, and the social and political power of empathy- an audio collage entitled I don’t know if there’s an answer to this . Interviews and book reports along side marching bands and digital signal processing.

  It’s Been Known  – an audio collage concerning magic, fantasy football, myth and noam chomsky.

What is keeping you awake right now – an audio collage about oil, capitalism, the environment and learning how to paint. if you want to hear the full interviews and more please visit the footnotes

from rocks to sea  – a new composition for headphones. featuring hitting ringing rocks, a bicycle, walking around a carnival, a bowed string, sitting on a plane, riding the 1 train, and walking on a beach. about 48 minutes. jw

A binaural recording of eating a quick breakfast at the hotel and then a walk around London, new years eve 2014. about 55 minutes. JW

A binaural field recording of shopping at a hardware store in New Rochelle. We recently moved to Mount Vernon, and I needed a few things for the house. I was surprised they played country music, its only a couple miles north of the Bronx, not what you would call the ‘country.’ This episode is about 25 minutes.

A stereo recording of an early summer rainstorm in Mount Vernon, NY. I am starting to put small intros to the podcast- progress and professionalism, this episode is about 16 minutes long.

A binaural field recording of walking around south Boulder, CO in the summer of 2015. The episode is about 20 minutes long.

My friend Brian Taylor was in town for the art fairs so we drove to Ringing Rocks State Park . The episode is a binaural field recording of me walking around hitting rocks with a hammer for about 20 minutes. Some rocks ‘ring’ while others don’t. Brian was off in the distance casting a rock. We had a nice lunch at Ship Inn (not a part of the recording).

The third in the ad hoc War Trilogy, September 11: A Musical first aired on the Blind Spot radio program in 2005. A historical experimental musical drama that portrays a twelve hour period from September 11, 2001 (in both Chicago and the East Coast). Featuring the talents of Jenny Walters, Eric Humphrey, Julia Klein, Sonia Yoon, Jacob Christopher, Michelle Dahlenburg and Philip von Zweck. Written,...

For the Country Entirely is a sonic re-staging of the Gertrude Stein short story of the same name. The piece is voiced by Anna Benavides, Brian Taylor and John Wanzel. Sounds and text were arranged and edited by John Wanzel. The piece was created for  Erik Belgum’s softpalate in celebration of the roughly 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s Geography and Plays. This piece and five ot...

The beach, bombs, parachutes, gunfire and a song. The 24 hours of the D-Day invasion has been compressed into one. The second in the ad hoc War Trilogy- DDAY60 first aired on The 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion (June 2004) as part of the Blind Spot radio program. Featuring the voices of John Wanzel and Brian Taylor with Peter Rosenbloom on cello and Jacob Christopher on computer, engineered...

In the future… Charlton Heston’s unfrozen head is the last banker in a communists dystopia; a story about studdering, language and new years; interviews about the United States; a song about jetpacks. The Omega Banker first aired in July of 2000 on the Something Else ( WLUW 88.7 Chicago 1995 – 2010), hosted by Philip von Zweck . It is the first of the ad hoc War Trilogy. I am rep...

A binaural field recording of walking around London, I start inside a starbucks in High Holborn. I had hopes of recording the entire journey to Greenwich, but the batteries ran out after about 19 minutes.

A binaural field recording of sitting near the Thames River path. I was walking from High Holborn to Greenwich and stopped for a rest. It was a long walk. The episode is about 6 minutes long.

The third work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, I haven’t been to Philidephia, it’ll be alright , was produced in 2004 for the Blind Spot radio program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the voice talents of Eric Humphrey, Brian Taylor and Carolina Wheat. Engineered by Philip von zweck. Written, composed and produced by John Wanzel. I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s...

A story about love and the 16th president of the United States. Cardiac Lincoln  is the second work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging some of my older work as part of this podcast. It was originally written and preformed in 2003. This recording is from a slightly revised version that was produced in 2005 for the Blind Spot Radio Program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the talents of Br...

The first work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging of old work for the stopGOstop podcast. Pear is an experimental sound piece for radio that consists of a series of narrative and sonic vignettes. The piece is concerned in general with how despair and desire effect the creation of a self that is mediated by personal and cultural experience. The text material for the project was produce...

A rebroadcast of the Blind Spot  radio program from December 11, 2005, and evening of landscapes, some real, some imagined. Microlandscapes features the talents of Richard Holland, Anna Clark, Peter Rosenbloom, Eric Humpherys, Brian Taylor, Philip von Zweck, and John Wanzel. I am re-releasing some old sound work from the 2000’s on this podcast along side new field recordings and sound art.

A binaural field recording in Hyde Park, walking from just outside the Serpentine to the winter carnival. I wandered in the park a bit. It is about 30 minutes.  

A binaural field recording, from my studio in Sunset Park to my apartment in Harlem. I say hi to M.E. and then hop on the N at 36th Street, transfer at Times Square and head uptown on the 1. The photo is from looking west from the 125th stop, they have since built a very large building in the hole. The episode is about 77 minutes long.

A stereo recording of biking from Harlem to the Bronx. The audio’s a bit muted because the mic is in my backpack. This episode is about 56 minutes long.

A 17 minute binaural field recording, starting on the 7 train in the morning heading towards Main Street-Flushing. After exiting the train at 111th Street, I walk through down 111th in Corona, then into the park near the Hall of Science where someone is playing with an electronic toy car. The walk ends in front of the museum.