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

[mariocanario.livejournal.com]

i talked to my partners about my concerns. They dissed them as bourgeois and neo-hippie and made the good point that in order to do constructive stuff you need money and if you don't have it the only way to get it is to sell out in one way or the other.
the money we'll get will barely cover our debts with phone companies and film developing studios, but that's still a good point.
Fortunately, the club's promoters don't like the idea of polluting the screens with tobacco imagery either so they've told us to keep it subtle and restrain from using it as much as possible. The dvd of clips they've given us are very very cheesy and seeing it in its entirety would make anyone hate the brand forever, so i wonder if the opposite aproach wouldn't be more appropiate!

[auto-appendix.livejournal.com]

What, you mean make the images so upfront that it's almost idiotic? That's a nice idea.

Isn't that justification of 'selling out' the very definition of bourgeois thinking, though?