Phonography

Phonography, or field recording: the documentation of site-specific soundscapes through audio recording equipment.
- From Worldchanging (part 5., the Paula Roush interview)

• Snowfall at Imbolc - 3.5MB, 5 minutes of early morning snowfall 10am 1 Feb 2007, Raleigh NC USA. Turn it way up.
• Rain - Contains recordings of rain made on 3 June 2007.
• Frogs in Bog - 29minutes, 41MB mp3 of post-dusk frogs croaking.
• Construction Time - 60:00 minutes, 84MB mp3 of a small bulldozer and a small backhoe were on the far side of a creek valley moving around rocks of head to torso size range
• Independence Night - 2hrs1min52sec, 168MB mp3 of 12:37am to 2:38am 4 July 2007. (Note: this is the night of July 3rd into the 4th. No fireworks. A fox, yes.)
• Commute - 17min drive. Nice echo chamber effect talk radio under a bridge at one point.
• Commute, Subdued - Above, heavily processed for noise reduction through Sound Soap.
• Summer Thunder - A short cloudburst at dusk after days of oppressive August heat.
• Drive - 12min28sec. Drive from hardware store to residential neighborhood in oppressive heat, midmorning 27 August 2007.
• Scrabbling - five seconds of scrabbling.
• crackling cheer - nov-dec 2007, ten seconds. Distant cheer in background at end.
• Rain 26 December 2007 - 32min53sec. Early to mid-morning 26 December 2007.

Appliances

• Fridge - Five minutes of refirgerator compressor noise sampled by request for another's project.
• Dehumidifier - Nine minutes.
• Dishwasher - One hour.
• Washing Machine - One hour ten minutes, with the last six or so minutes of silence.
• heat pump, Trane - 10min00sec, mono mp3 (photo) (ultraviolet)
• space heater, Holmes, small - 10min00sec, mono mp3 (small, on left)
• space heater, Holmes, 1touch - 10min00sec, mono mp3 (large, on right)

  Uses

• 30 March 2008 (Sunday)- Excerpt of the field recording Snowfall at Imbolc included on the March "Winter"-themed session of the Giant Ear))) radio show produced by the NY Society for Acoustic Ecology. Internet broadcast of the show available on 103.9FM, 7-9pm EST.
• 24 February - Excerpt of my composition Clinic Construction included on the February "Urban Rhythms" session of the Giant Ear))) radio show produced by the NY Society for Acoustic Ecology. Internet broadcast of the show available on 103.9FM, 7-9pm EST.
• Intros used for framework: afield.
• Fridge and space heater recordings used by AW for framework:afield.