5 seconds of FUN

[imomus]

What do people do when you ask them to make a sound for five seconds... but don't let them use speech or music? Find out by watching a short Quicktime movie (8.9MB) I shot today at the Future University (FUN).

The Japanese word for sound is oto, and 'Otto Spooky' can also mean 'a spooky sound'. I'm happy to report that the 'Otto Spooky' lyrics page is now up, for those disorienteers who lost their compasses and want to see the map.

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[imomus.livejournal.com]

I found the voice on an excellent site (http://www.nipperhead.com/cylinder.htm) dedicated to old Edison cylinder and phonograph recordings. It's listed as 'Edison Advertising Record'. I slowed it down and selected certain phrases to make it into 'the voice of death'. Suddenly I had the idea that death is the ultimate recording medium, because artists often think of posterity almost the same way they think of magnetic tape -- a way to retain their words and songs and play them to people far away. It is a creepy thought; we're all communicating with the dead when we listen to recordings, and when we make them we are ourselves dead, and speaking to the unborn.