Monday, April 7, 2008

More noisy radio

In the 1980's, whenever I wanted to create an all-night broadcast using only a single sound, I would take a long tape-loop and play it through multiple playback heads. This technique always provided a seamless sound sculpture. For Simulcast, I did something different. Instead of using analog based repetition, I took a short recording of 40 seconds and digitally stretch it into a single ten hour long wave form. The original recording was that of an auto accident, which is a favourite sound source of mine. The resulting effect is very much like ceaseless grinding. Which also happens to be a favourite of mine:

More info / webstream here:


http://free103point9.org/events/1911/

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