Berlin ramble

[imomus]

Berlin Ramble (mono mp3 audio file, 22.2MB, 44mins)

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[yhancik.livejournal.com]

oh, isn't it some dan graham's installation ?

[bengt.livejournal.com]

I liked the "Berlin Ramble." Some of the background sounds made me think of when I was there in October which was lots of fun! The sounds of the buzzers as the U-Bahn doors close brought me RIGHT back there!

I do wish I'd had you there to notice interesting things about the buildings! There's so much to see there.

cartographers of the heart

[mychopsticks.livejournal.com]

Thank you for Berlin Ramble! Since I can't travel right now, I truly enjoy your thoughts and images... and now audio journeys.


Cheers!

By the way, have you heard of two guys called Isan? They make wonderful music.


Be well momus.

Re: cartographers of the heart

[phntmpwrsource.livejournal.com]

They're on Morr right?

isan

[intergalactim.livejournal.com]

i love isan.
get 1996's "Beutronics" if you can find it...

[fufurasu.livejournal.com]

I admit that after listening to the first minute of the "Berlin Ramble," I had to stop it and put on some Brassens...

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Brassens is like that, isn't he? You hear a bit and you want to get down with more. Brassens is my homie. The beauty is that you can start anywhere... it all sounds the same, and it's all great.

[martylog.livejournal.com]

Are you sure the 111-year-old woman wasn't simply ill?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Actually it was a 111 year-old man (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050303/323/fdo12.html). Can't see as well as I used to, you know.

sorry to change topic

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading through random web-pages when I came across this link: Nicolas Cage is going to be starring in a remake of "The Wickerman". The screen play has been "adapted" for the Americas. Yikes!

http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_4899.php/Nicolas_Cage_Set_for_Remake_of_The_Wicker_Man

But it could also mean that the album "Summerisle" might soon be making a sudden spike in sales?

Re: sorry to change topic

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's wretched even thinking about that remake. A sudden spike is called for, indeed.

Re: sorry to change topic

[xyzedd.livejournal.com]

If it weren't Nicholas Cage and it weren't typical Hollywood, a remake could be interesting, if it were to take into account the post-Bushian "we create our own reality" world Americans are now living in. In an America dominated by an hysterical Christian right, where gay prostitutes and other media whores deliver America the "news" and little children are trotted out to enforce the dismantling of our only remaining social programs (if you ever read the American news you'll know what I'm talking about), an alternative pagan world in our midst might be just what we need to see. As long as the pagans are portrayed as the real "good guys"!

Just a passing thought as I skim through--I'd rather be taking a walk in Berlin right now...

[gorillabiscuit.livejournal.com]

momus, i thought of your album "otto spooky" today after walking around an unfamiliar part of town feeling spooky.

Bernard Manning

[(Anonymous)]

love your audio jaunts momus!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Hisae got a bit microphone shy and she ended up sounding a bit like an artichoke.
But I'm sure she'll do better next time.

Brassens did alright.
And the noises from the Berlin tube are just majestic.
I wish I taped some when I lived there...

Momus: do you have any posts about your own field recording set-up?
Like the cooler stuff you might have used in Hakodate for instance.
(or did you end up just using the new sony all the time?)
Any notes you wrote with a pedagogical intent?

Cheers :))
Cameron

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I have quite an impressive range of inadequate audio equipment now. The Hokkaido stuff was recorded on various things, Olympus Digital IC Recorders, Sony camcorders, my Sony M1 (which has a really annoying high-pitched twitter on the audio) and the old Fujifilm Finepix F601, which is what I still use for my radio programmes.

I can't download this because I'm in China or something

[(Anonymous)]

Actually I don't know why, but whenever I try and download anything from this site it starts very very slowly and then cuts out. Would anyone be so kind? I'd lioke to hear the Tokyo shopping one too if possible.

rwillmsen@gmail.com

[arcana07.livejournal.com]

When you were talking about the Germans in this podcast, you said they looked strange and foreign because of their painted faces and other descriptors I can't remember at this very moment. When I compared that description with the physical description of The Boy (a person whom I'm engaged in an intellectual relationship with), who is of 3/4 Germanic ancestry (mostly settling in around the early 1700s), I did notice how his coloring does match up with the painted faces of cherbuic ceramic dolls. But I *like* that he looks like that. He looks gorgeous in my eyes and I think his painted face (which doesn't remind me of an Otto Dix painting at all but rather an angel figurine I might see in a Christian trinkets shop) adds to his overall physical attractiveness. Vive la difference, one supposes; he thinks my Linda Ronstadt lookalike self is beautiful and I've always been somewhat ashamed of it, so, you know, making the world go 'round, etc.