kalimba at Pape, 15 Dec 2011, 18:16
I think his name is Achilla Orru, and I’ve heard him twice before.
Category: audblog
audio blogging, or impromptu field recordings
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Banjo at home
Got some better pictures of the banjo yesterday. And sounds, too!
Please excuse the ropeyness of the following playing; I’d never played fretless until I built this:
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Space Gamelan
I picked this up just before midnight last night around 7305 MHz. It’s probably a digital mode of some kind, but I like it: 7305mhz-201105290357z.
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not some obscure radio signalling protocol
I do a lot of conference calls. Usually there’s a tone and the participant’s name played when they sign out. If it’s a big call and everyone leaves at the end, this signout cascade gets quite lengthy. Here’s part of one I recently caught: signout cascade.
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maybe a bit too much octave chorus
In line with the recent misuse of paulstretch, here’s my contribution to the genre: Zzyzx-stretch-sample. I don’t think you’d recognize the original – it’s Zzyzx from Billy Faier’s Banjo album.
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Summer Heat Bugs
mobugs (m4v video)
Summer bugs by the crick at the Martha Lafite Thompson Nature Sanctuary.
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Robyn Hitchcock Live at Dancebase on 2001-08-22 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Robyn Hitchcock Live at Dancebase on 2001-08-22 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
Robyn Hitchcock Dancebase, Edinburgh 2001-08-22 Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Andy Kershaw show, 2001-08-24 FM-Radio > SB-16 > WAV > CD-R CD-R > XLD > FLAC-16 Sound is occasionally slightly buzzy, but generally pretty clear. Setlist: 1 Gene Hackman 2 Cheese Alarm 3 Arms Of Love 4 Surgery 5 I Often Dream Of Trains 6 Autumn Is Your Last Chance 7 Freeze 8 (Interview with Andy Kershaw) Support was The Bhundu Boys. Recorded and transferred by Stewart C. Russell - scruss.com (who also has a mono AUD on minidisc of this - enquire if interested) -
Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-05 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Robyn Hitchcock The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2001-08-05 AUD AUD > lapel mic > Sharp MD-SR50 MD (mono mode) MD-SR60 > Marantz PMD-620 > Audacity > FLAC (analogue connection from MD to PMD-620) Note: recording is *MONO*, and is 24-bit FLAC. Partial set - had to leave to catch last train home ... but this was the last night of a great three gig series, and Robyn was on top form. Setlist: 1 talk: "he went elsewhere" 2 Mexican God 3 talk: "meat ... meat ..." 4 The Devil's Coachman 5 talk: "when you die" (*** truncated) 6 When I Was Dead (*** mostly) 7 Raining Twilight Coast 8 talk: "god came along, and the mars bar was ashamed" 9 1974 10 talk: "pumpkin A and pumpkin A" 11 Chinese Bones 12 talk: "frank recorded this" 13 My Wife And My Dead Wife 14 talk: "intro to your feelings are the last thing to die" 15 Your Feelings Are the Last Thing To Die 16 She Doesn't Exist Any More 17 talk: "special strings made for him by a halibut" 18 I Feel Beautiful 19 talk: "madonner of the bees" 20 Madonna Of The Wasps 21 talk: "see how much of it I can remember" 22 La Cherité No encore recorded, though one was likely played. Tracks marked '***' have MD dropouts from faulty Maxell XL-II 74 MD. Audience recording by Stewart C. Russell, http://scruss.com/ -
Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-04 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Robyn Hitchcock The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh 2001-08-04 AUD AUD > lapel mic > Sharp MD-SR50 MD (mono mode) MD-SR60 > Marantz PMD-620 > Audacity > FLAC (analogue connection from MD to PMD-620) Note: recording is *MONO*, and is 24-bit FLAC. Setlist: 1 talk: "not horribly caramelized or mellow" 2 Surgery 3 talk: "clint eastwood, for it is he" 4 A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations, Briggs 5 talk: "exciting and miserable time" 6 Wax Doll 7 talk: "a totem of misery" 8 The Veins Of The Queen 9 talk: "watch out for igor the dragon" 10 Viva! Sea-Tac 11 Glass Hotel 12 talk: "the only reason we can have, um, courtney cox" 13 Queen Elvis 14 I Am Not Me 15 Raymond Chandler Evening 16 talk: "good news: charles knocked out" 17 Sally Was A Legend 18 talk: "that amp contained a dybbuk" 19 Only The Stones Remain 20 Nightfall Encore: 21 encore intro: "got another half hour" 22 Gene Hackman 23 The Ghost In You 24 talk: "already preparing to go somewhere else" 25 Think For Yourself Audience recording by Stewart C. Russell, http://scruss.com/ -
Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-03 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
I finally got around to transferring the first of the Robyn Hitchcock shows I recorded back in 2001 in Edinburgh: Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-03 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.
There are three more. Two of them (plus the one I just uploaded) have dropouts from dodgy Maxell MD media.
I did transfer these back in 2001, and distribute them on CD to several people. Audacity and a solid-state recorder makes this a lot easier. My old workflow was:
- Save the recording to wav through the sound card and GramoFile.
- Burn the recording to CD-R (yay, 2x CD writers …)
- Delete the wav file (I don’t think I had space to keep multiple copies)
- Listen to the CD, noting track end times in a text file
- Rip the CD with CDDA Paranoia, using the notes as a cue sheet
- Burn the final CDs.
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Robyn Covers Syd
Robyn Hitchcock plays The Drake this weekend. Last night he covered Syd Barrett’s Terrapin. His Fylde has never sounded better.
[wpaudio url=”http://scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/terrapin-robyn_hitchcock-drake-20100611.mp3″ text=”Robyn Hitchcock – Terrapin” dl=”0″]
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Old Man Luedecke instore
Old Man Luedecke just gets better and better. Here’s a half-hour instore he did at Criminal Records last week.
[wpaudio url=”http://scruss.com/music/luedecke-criminal_records_instore-20100408/old_man_luedecke-criminal_records_instore-20100408-mono.mp3″ text=”Old Man Luedecke – Criminal Records (Toronto) instore, 2010-04-08″ dl=”0″]
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The Drones of Scarborough Superstore
I’ve mentioned the beautiful drone in the Loblaw Superstore before, but only last night did I actually get around to recording it:
- meats, fish – 2009/10/24 19:24:36
- chill – 2009/10/24 19:34:38
- ice cream – 2009/10/24 19:36:56
- organic dairy – 2009/10/24 19:40:52
- frozen veg – 2009/10/24 19:45:38
- ice cream 2 – 2009/10/24 19:52:04
You should probably listen through headphones or decent speakers – there’s some bass in there. If you can, try to experience it for yourself. The store is at 1775 Brimley Road, just south of the 401.
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some interesting doinks
An empty whisky bottle tube struck hard against the tiled floor: interesting doinks [wav].
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My Name is not Alvin
When I first heard of Alvin Lucier‘s “I Am Sitting in a Room” I thought it would be interesting to attempt a recreation with the tools I had on hand. Rather than shuffling tapes around, I recorded on my iPod Touch, and then e-mailed the file to my laptop to play back. I repeated this sixteen times. This is what I ended up with: my name is not alvin [mp3].
I’m pretty sure all I ended up recording was the hard drive and the backlight on my MacBook. By the final iteration, the cricket-like chirping is centred pretty close to 5400 and 16000 Hz.
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Olivet frogs
I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things – but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.
