COMMEMORATIVE AUDIO SCULPTURE: Send me your entries
I'd like to make a mash-up using as many "losing" entries as possible. If you're willing, email your mp3 to me so I can use it in the project. I'll then email the commemorative mash-up made with bits and pieces of everyone's entries back to you.
It'll be cathartic, I promise. It might even be funny. Or beautiful. Or both.
Perhaps we could even convince
the PRTQ folks to post the montage here as our memorial....
Don't be shy. Send them on!
delicious
diggA link has been added to the mashup page showing contributors in order of appearance. Look for the "the thirty-seven contestants" in hypertext at the mashup page or follow the link below.
The map lists who says what when in the piece. Music credits are also provided. Thanks again, all!
Mashup is here:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/2377
Map is here:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/2413
Please come have a listen:
You created something lovely out of the detritus of clips tossed aside by judges. And the photo with it - perfect.
Deborah
Jennifer,
Thank you so much for piecing this little work of art together! You did a wonderful job.
ez
The simultaneous, catastrophic failure of several systems at the radio station where I work led to the destruction of hours and hours of audio. Recording sessions, laboriously produced programs, my kids goofing off in the performance studio--all gone. Poof!
Sensing our pain, our station manager staged a "wake" (complete with catered breakfast) for all the lost audio. We were all invited to contribute to the wake, so I took my trusty glue gun to work with me and the sculpture in the photo is the result.
back in the early 80's when I worked with main frame computers, we had removable disk packs made up of metal platters, about 8 deep. Each pack weighed about 25lbs. and had to be removed from the disk drives after every "back up" was done.
I had GREAT biceps back then.
Anyway, when there was a disk crash, it sounded like a semi truck skreetching. The write head would literally cut groves into the metal of the disks.
We would take them apart and make clocks or pieces of art. I had one mounted on my office wall as a souvenir of the "big one" when we had to take our files off site to NCR and do a disaster rebuild. (this was for a major financial institution.) That event was so serious the Federal Reserve sent people in to check on us. I didn't see my apartment for 4 days- biggest paycheck of my life too.
Wish I had kept that crashed disk that started it all.
A few years later we flung it, amoung other things, off the top of a downtown parking garage after the bank got bought out and we all lost our jobs. Ah the old days of the savings and loan debacle.
good times, good times.
You made a very cool piece of art.
It's a monument to recycling bad experiences.
"Happiness is the best revenge!"
It is prophetic art.
Jimmy Bear
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My entry: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/197
Blog?
http://blog.jimmybearpearson.com
Music, Singles, Samples?
http://jimmybearpearson.com/purchase.php
I guess I was lucky to have this sitting on my desk as a reminder of what to do when audio and loss meet.
It's finished!
Waiting on final word from the good folks at PRTQ/prx, but it sounds like the piece will be posted here for listening. Stay tuned!
Jimmy Bear
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My entry: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/197
Blog?
http://blog.jimmybearpearson.com
Music, Singles, Samples?
http://jimmybearpearson.com/purchase.php
I worked a little of your "Requiem for Syd Barrett" into the piece. There's a silly surprise in there for you too, using the "pick me" doodle from your entry.
On this "one week later" Monday, the PRTQ Remix is just about ready. More info shortly!
Delicious cookies, too. What a great host! I suppose I'll have to wash my hands before being served.
Current Stats:
37 entries
217 clips taken from those entries
2 sound effects (Thanks, Rich Meitin)
2 original compositions (Thanks, TBA)
14 hours of editing (and counting)
1 mashup coming Monday
Fondly,
Jennifer
Jennifer:
Great Caesar’s Ghost …No such thing as a small audio editing project...I look forward to hearing the final project whenever it’s ready. As the others have said, I appreciate what you are doing and much applause for such a cool idea. You are very awesome indeed!
Thank you again.
How much coffee (have you consumed)?
Steve
I just can't wait to hear this audio sculpture. Thank you, Jennifer!
Janie
"Why is Alabama like it is?" http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/3002
"The most important attitude to be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey
than all of the rest. (kind of sung to the tune of an old high school cheer) Thanks for doing this. I can't believe you have put that many hours into this labor of love. Well, I feel loved. I wish I could help . . .
You are SO awesome for doing this.
Jimmy Bear
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My entry: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/197
Blog?
http://blog.jimmybearpearson.com
Music, Singles, Samples?
http://jimmybearpearson.com/purchase.php
Getting on this late, but there are so many ways to slice this:
Unherd Mash-up
Head 'em up and move 'em out
Left behind hell-raisers
Cattle Call
Mooove along, nothing to listen here.
Lost
Sally
Cows on your brain.
BTW, the mic's on its way - didn't get to FedEx yesterday and didn't have the right packaging to mail it at home.
Deborah
Listen away at: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/703
Does it become performance art if I don't wash as well?
Deborah
Listen away at: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/703
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