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Posted by listenhear on 27th July 2007
Another weird ansaphone message…
Has this guy, with the obvious Manchester accent, mis-dialed from the depths of he ocean or the outer reaches of space? Where is he? What is that noise? Does anyone have any clues?!……..please…..strange.
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Posted by listenhear on 25th July 2007
And todays parade is…..
‘The Freedom of the City Parade’ by the Royal Lancashire Regiment…or some such like bunch. something to do with losing so many members of that Regiment in that war that’s occurring at the moment, the one which shouldn’t really be happening type thang…Nevertheless Still A seriously tragic, sad, senseless and pointless loss of a young peoples lives.
Although, Uhmm, giving the freedom of a city like Manchester to a bunch of Squaddies? Did anyone really think this through?
Other military news today, as we’re on the subject…the Government have ordered two more Aircraft Carriers at a cost of something like 3.4 Billion pounds, meanwhile they’ve applied for European funding to help those stricken by the terrible floods in the Midlands, because we must be broke….how many hospitals, schools, homes, flood victims would that kind of money help….priorities in Westminster? If only we could all afford those toys we’d really like to buy and apply to Europe in order to pay the Household bills…
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Posted by listenhear on 17th July 2007
So it was raining as I worked away…now the sun is shining brightly…so I’m off for a walk along the beach…
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Posted by listenhear on 13th July 2007
A small demonstration by the Congo Support Project has just passed my window…
hey,….this is my demo recording…maybe I’ll package it and send it to some record companies 
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Posted by listenhear on 12th July 2007
This is something I created for “Reaching for the Heavens” part of the Scenofest opening ceremony. It was played in the Tower of Babel whilst some wonderful creations were flown and paraded.
OK, so I wasn’t supposed to do this, someone pulled out at the last minute because of illness and I needed to come up with something very quickly. This was composed entirely in one take (no going back to remix, re-edit or readjust), I simply gathered some sounds from my collection and created textures using Reason. The whole thing was created in half an hour, whilst sat in a noisy production office with my laptop and headphones…I enjoyed the experience on this occasion, but I want to remix and change it but so far I’m resisting this temptation.
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Posted by listenhear on 12th July 2007
Latitude 50° 6′6.78″N
Longitude 14°25′42.09″E
So, I spent a few weeks in Prague armed with my recorder. What did I capture? Not much really, I ended up far too busy to even think about recording. I did try and record a journey on one of the marvellous trams…ruined by a passenger with a hacking cough. I did record some rain and storms, but I have lots of this stuff and it didn’t turn out as well as my other similar recordings. But…
One evening just before Scenofest opened I managed to get back to my apartment for a quick nap before going out to eat. As I lay in bed, eyes shut, I heard a sound that could’ve placed me virtually anywhere in the world, the sound of some kids kicking a football against a wall. This is, in my opinion a truly global sound, not influenced in any way by location or time.
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