[Archive] The Soundscape 12.06.10

The Soundscape 12.6.10 by Needles Numark

1) The Fun Years, "Little Vapors," God Was Like, No (Barge Recordings)

2) Richard Skelton, "Old Rachels (Part 2)," Landings (Type)

3) Failing Lights, "Serve in Silence," Failing Lights (Intransitive)

4) Chapels, "Untitled," No Voids (House of Alchemy)
5) Tim Six, "Evoked Machine"

6) Augustine Leudar, "The Wild Hunt,"  Installation at Eden Project in UK

7) Dolphins into the Future, "Observations Through the Halocline of the Worlds 1," The Music of Belief       (Release the Bats)

8) Six Organs of Admittance, "Cover Your Wounds With the Sky," Luminous Night (Drag City)

9) Coil, "Godhead=Deathbed," Scatology (Force & Form)

10) Cinnamon Aluminum, "Godhead," Mad Monty in the 8^th Dimension of Nine

11) The Gibbets, "Baby Ain't Happy," Playground (Fubar Bundy Presents)

12) David Lynch, "I Know," Good Day Today/I Know (Sunday Best)

13) SJ Esau, "Wears the Control" Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse (Anticon)

14) Reactionary Ensemble, "Surround: Audio Variations II" Live at Burchfield Penny Art Center, 11.10.10

15) Memoryhouse, "Untitled," Choir of Empty Rooms (We Are Bandits)

16) Zelienople, "Indifferent Dreams," Give It Up (TypeP

17) Boom Bit, "Pulse All Over (Peel Session Version)," Corymb (Lex Records)

18) Broken Social Scene, "Professor Sambo," Lo-Fi for the Dividing Nights (Arts & Crafts)

19) Christopher Willits, "Sun Body," Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Ghostly)

20) Forest Feeling, "Wowbagger," Forest Feeling

21) Krob, "Time," Soundscape Group 

22) Black to Comm, Live on Rare Frequency 11.03.10, Rare Frequencies Podcast Special Ed. 48 

23) Beta Cloud, "Bay of Billows," Lunar Monograph (Laughing Bride Media)

[Preview] Tonight's Show

Tune in tonight to The Soundscape to hear new music from Failing Lights, Forest Feeling, The Fun Years, and Cinnamon Aluminum.

Mike Connelly of Failing Lights (Photo Originally from Intransitive Recordings)

We'll also hear a new song from Mulholland Drive director David Lynch, a live recording from Black to Comm, and other semi-recent stuff from Christopher Willits, Dolphins into the Future, and Richard Skelton.

David Lynch

Plus local sounds from Chapels, Beta Cloud, The Gibbets, and a live outtake from the Reactionary Ensemble's performance at Birchfield-Penny Art Center back in November. 

We'll also check in on some Soundcloud artists like Pied Piper and Krob.

Tune in at 8pm. Check back with the blog tomorrow for full playlist info and an archived version of the set. 

Needles

[video]: Kyla Kegler "Buffalo Grain Music"

I've always wondered what would happen if a sound artist made use of the giant, rotting grain elevators located just south of the city. This video here from Kyla Kegler offers a hint at the possibilities.

buffalo grain music. from kyla kegler on Vimeo.

in this video you travel by bicycle through downtown buffalo, ny, through the deserted ruins and into the old abandoned grain elevators.

all of the sound in the video is live and natural to the environment. the music comes from the incredible acoustics in the grain funnels, and is only voice and sounds made by touching the sides of the funnel while sitting inside of it.

if you get bored at the beginning, skip to 15 minutes ahead, to see the music.

[mp3] Featured Soundcloud Group Track: Martin Freeman, "Schuele"

Schuele by Martin Freeman

This week's featured Soundcloud Group track comes courtesy of Buffalo's own Martin Freeman. According to Freeman's Soundcloud page, "Schuele" was "recorded live with shortwave radio, the growler (homemade synth) and guitar pedals."

Martin is involved in a number of projects including Repeater, Freemandown Duo, and Obody. What's really interesting is that a lot of the sounds Freeman uses are made with home-made synthesizer gear. You can follow Freeman's Tumblr blog where he details the equipment he makes, which you can buy as well. Sound samples of his home-made gear can he heard at his Soundcloud page. 

If you're looking for a piece of gear to give you that grainy, analog sound that computer software just can't replicate, I suggest you look into Mr. Freeman's gear.       

Don't forget to head over to the Soundscape's Soundcloud Group to check out what everyone is up to. Upload your own stuff, too, and I'll feature it on the blog and on the show. 

Needles

Kickstarter for Surrounded:Visual Show

The upcoming Surrounded:Visual event set to take place at Babeville on Wednesday, December 8 needs help raising funds. The Reactionary Ensemble and nimbus dance group are hoping to raise $2,500 in order to meet their needed funding for the event.

Right now they are at $210.

Head over to their Kickstarter page for more details on the event (which sounds fucking awesome, by the way) and what you can get by donating anywhere from $10-$500. Donations as low as $1 can be made as well.

The money will go toward the materials needed for the the screen used in the performance, costumes for the dancers, ultrasonic range sensors and stipends for the artists involved in the project.

Monday, December 6 is the deadline for raising the funds.