Archive for ‘Found Sound’
After having a robust cup of double-shot espresso in a café located in the trendy East Village district near the Iowa State Capitol, I unhurriedly drove toward the Des Moines Botanical Center with my slow mind tagged along like a sleepy monitor lizard with no nametag. The laid-back street scenes of Des Moines, accompanied by Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ in my car’s stereo system,...
More →Making some field recordings of Kings Creek near Hokanson Homestead in Konza Prairie was both mentally and physically therapeutic. The stream benevolently bequeathed a serene luminosity of a quiet song and the reflection of gorgeous afternoon sunlight. I was content and still, minus my understandable hungriness after a long day of travel, silently reciting Australian poet Henry Lawson’s The Song And The Sigh as a pre-snack-time tribute to a perfect...
More →Plastic Bottle Screaker | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang I don’t normally purchase drinks packaged in plastic bottles. Environmental consciousness aside, the existence of plastic bottles, in my little everyday-codex-for-JK-behaviors-of-normalization, has the potential of becoming a great sonic distraction. For some reasons, I don’t seem to be able to put those maddeningly screaky bottles down without some off-speed Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On unstoppably echoing in my head....
More →Memphis Airport Parking Garage | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Making field-recording in the underground parking garage of Memphis International Airport was a somewhat conspicuous activity. In addition to numerous cars swinging back and forth like hungry sharks hunting for a spot to park and flocking crowd passing through with “huh?” expression on their faces, I felt emotionally naked as my mind was oddly colonized by acoustic ecologist Gordon...
More →Stream | Exported Frame | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang As usual, I helplessly unfolded into an optimist after few cups of organic coffee and fantasized in sublime ignorance that my out-of-century desktop computer could, beyond any reasonable doubt, successfully render a one-hour long generative audiovisual project in lossless avi format in After Effect CS3. I held my breath. I clicked render. I watched my computer superhero-ing through one hundred hours...
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