May 2010
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November 2009
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Watch6:20am GMT, Welcome to Iceland
WatchOn that day in 2009, 1969, and 1851 July 21 was a Monday. I had taken the day off from work and I spent a few hours walking around Central Park making sound recordings and taking photographs. On the northwest side near the reservoir I passed by a bearded man under a tree playing a mandola, also known as the octave mandolin. Like a viola to the violin, it has a longer neck and a deeper pitch...
August 2009
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WatchRhys Chatham’s Crimson Grail for 200 guitars
Audio of the crowd waiting and the very end of Part I of “A Crimson Grail.” August 8 at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center.
June 2009
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Watchbrooklyn. late june, 2009 the sound of neighbors on a sunday afternoon: one does yard work, another sings along to Jay-Z, and a cop car roars by.
Watchnot the gentle crash of waves, not even the faint music of the brooklyn bands, but the crowd at Toddp’s unamplified BBQ on the beach at Fort Tilden, where the local law enforcement authorities took special interest in our gathering.
May 2009
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WatchA walk down Mulberry Street during a street fair
Watch the measure of a block and the tempo of my walk home along Clermont Avenue. Tuesday, 11pm.
April 2009
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Watchhiking down a gorge in ithaca, ny
Watchtom petty & pico de gallo at Bonita in Ft. Greene, Bklyn
WatchRewinding 35mm film at the National Archives in DC
Watchthe Really Terrible Orchestra + Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture + paper bags =
March 2009
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