The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight but hurt not

[imomus]

I love radio that uses sound evocatively. For instance, this excellent Radio 3 Sunday Feature about the artist Donald Judd, or the programmes made by Arte Radio. Inspired by examples like these, I've decided to do an audio blog today. It's basically all the little lofi sound files I've been capturing with my digital camera since coming to Japan in mid-July, dropped into iTunes randomly then cross-faded. It gives a rather evocative sound picture of the archipelago, I think. I've concentrated on street cries, children's songs, the sounds of nature in summer, and all the little electronic melodies that float in the air in Japanese cities, accompanying activities as banal as collecting rubbish or crossing the road. The isle is full of noises...

Japan Sound Collage, Summer 2004 (24.72 MB mp3 file, 21.35 minutes, 160 kbps, mono)

Comments

[merzbow.livejournal.com]

"Inspired by examples like these" :)

would be nice to have permlinks in this blog.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but surely the permalink to this entry is simply this:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/2004/08/14/

The BBC and Arte links should be relatively permanent. The BBC one is the specific documentary I mention, which will open in a BBC Realplayer window. The Arte one is to the HTML version of their site, because I'm somewhat anti-Flash.

soundcollage

[merzbow.livejournal.com]

"Forgive me if I'm being stupid" :))

permlink in audio-blog I meant. This file is an audio map of your walk, right (chopped up and reconstructed after)? So, theres a number of ways to make permlinks associated with "places" you visited.

Re: soundcollage

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see! Well, it's disorienteering (http://www.imomus.com/disorienteering.html), innit? You're supposed to be lost.

[merzbow.livejournal.com]

lol, lots of gems there, yeah
but orange is user-unfriendly
probably it was done long time ago too, when digital cameras and cell phones werent avaliable?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, way back in 2003.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

Who can remember 2003?

[merzbow.livejournal.com]

:) I had travelogue book by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky, about his journey through Mongolia, China and Tibet, illustrated by himself. But there were no audio, too bad.