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A New Year Offering….

January 2, 2013 @ 1:09 pm

An offering for the New Year...

After pretty much a month in hospital, which of course meant no field recordings, I offer this as my first post of 2013! Various outtakes and noises created over the past few months before I fell ill.....

Here's wishing everyone a very happy and healthy 2013!

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Shaking the Cage….

November 30, 2012 @ 11:00 pm

shaking a cage in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall earlier this month...

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In My Home…

September 23, 2012 @ 12:18 pm

...playing around with some recordings I've made of sounds which I hear pretty much everyday whilst in my home...an attempt at finding the 'soul' of the recording, the mood it sets and the subconscious tones which underscore our lives...

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Kitchen Experiment …

August 31, 2012 @ 1:28 pm

I've been messing around with contact mics, clocks, fridges and some other things in my kitchen, with the view of releasing something very soon on my Bandcamp page.

Here's a little demo.

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211-4000

June 17, 2012 @ 11:38 am

...a little Sunday morning music doodle...just scribbling in the margin.

the ATC is JFK Final Approach on 12.06.12 about 9pm BST.

Please make sure all electronic devices are switched off, your seat is in an upright position and the table in front of you is folded away...

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Perpetual Motion Power Marble Run…

January 8, 2012 @ 11:05 pm

The strangely hypnotic sound of my (now more finely tuned) Perpetual Motion Power Marble Run .... which will I'm sure become the key sound for many mechanical and factory noises in the future!

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Noisy Water Pipes …

December 27, 2011 @ 11:58 pm

Another Roland R-26 test recording.

Some (worryingly noisy) water pipes.

This is a six track recording using the on-board XY and Omni mics and some Jez Riley French custom made contact microphones.

Once again this recording was simply point and shoot, with no post production processing.

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de:Constructed(ed)

November 15, 2011 @ 12:56 am

Constructed and de-constructed from field recordings and sounds from my library...I hope that (to some extent) it's self-explanatory.

No birds, or animals were harmed in the making over this piece and no musical instruments were used!

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Friday Morning …

September 23, 2011 @ 5:39 pm

A rare day off and a good nights sleep....just before I went out for a walk along the beach, on this very warm Autumns day, this started.

...the source for a future tone/drone...

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Jonny, Rain and Football Results

September 10, 2011 @ 11:05 pm

A fleeting visit home to Brighton after a really busy week in Manchester. An early start tomorrow as it the official launch of the Association of Sound Designers at the PLASA Show which is held at Earls Court.

So it's raining outside and being tired and not wanting to get wet I spent some time working on trying to recreate (in some way) a song the band I played in way back when performed called Jonny's Got A Stripy Jumper... being Saturday it was football results at teatime too!

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Shipwreck

July 24, 2011 @ 8:28 pm

I've just been sitting on the beach, recording some sea and thinking about shipwrecks. When I got home I improvised this using the recordings I'd just made and whatever audio, recorded in the past, found on my laptop.

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…doodling on a Sunday morning

July 3, 2011 @ 10:07 am

...calmness after a night of bad dreams...

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Food…

February 26, 2011 @ 12:21 am

I couldn't make the always fantastic Kinokophone evening of sounds and listening this week, the subject matter was food...this, however, was my contribution to Kinokophonography despite my absence!

Food -

Created with the following instruments - 2 X Pork Chops 1 X George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine 2 X Bottles of Chilean Red (one just opened, the other just finished, hic) 1 X Electric Kettle 1 X Wine Glass Various items of cutlery Topped with lashings of reverb sauce

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Accidental Circuit Bending

January 10, 2011 @ 7:17 pm

Some accidental circuit bending as my desk light interferes with the circuit I'm attempting to repair...

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Boxing Day

December 26, 2010 @ 2:55 pm

Various bells found about my home at Christmas, festive decorations and instruments, mixed with the fantastic Micro-Bot I received! Cool :-)

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2010

December 20, 2010 @ 1:22 am

It's now the final few sentences of the last chapter, of what will be known as 2010 and I've spent this cold winters evening, a week before Christmas, listening back to some of the recordings I've made this year and thinking about what will, to me, soon become little more than a few distant memories.

My biggest realisation of this year is that it seems..too many people are now living their lives as if they're appearing on some reality TV show...too many intelligent people are apparently blind to what is and has been happening right under their noses...also puzzling is their lack of awareness at just how they're being cleverly manipulated...puppeteers being controlled by puppets...sad, funny and a cause for some concern.

We all need to continue to grow, creators of art...entertainment...those of us who want to push boundaries, share and learn, need to fight against those who seek to obstruct our futures and our growth and I sense that in many ways 2011 will be even more important to all of us.

So here's to our continued personal growth and greater wisdom in 2011!

I hope this recording reflects some of what I've learnt this year.

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…a little experiment…

November 28, 2010 @ 11:55 am

...just sound doodling with the recording I made of the train trip I made from Cardiff a couple of weeks ago...posted on November 17th...trying a new piece of software...just a little experiment in changing source sounds...ongoing discoveries...so now the first part of that recording now sounds like this...

The experiment continues...no end in sight...disappointed (and frustrated) by the detail which is missing on this mp3 in comparison with the .wav original

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200th post…how did that happen?

November 24, 2010 @ 12:19 am

...a celebration, of sorts...

200 posts just how did that happen?

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Cooking and Daydreaming

October 7, 2010 @ 10:28 pm

Cooking and daydreaming...

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Switches

September 14, 2010 @ 10:09 pm

....just playing around with a bunch of switches which are laying around on my desk...

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Missing…

August 28, 2010 @ 8:55 pm

My week started well, in Prague, lots of wonderful things are going to happen at PQ2011, all organised by a beautifully efficient, dedicated and inspiring team, I can't wait....and then...

So right now, a Saturday night, Manchester, missing my friends as the rain falls...a bank holiday weekend.

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World Listening Day/I must remember to fold my clothes….

July 13, 2010 @ 11:12 pm

I must remember to fold my clothes after taking them out of the dryer! Chores...

WORLD LISTENING DAY SUNDAY 18th JULY 2010

Please support this event, further details here, press release here.

The OISTAT Sound Design Working Group are organising an online exhibition, All you need to do is record a one minute moment from your day, it could be anything you like, a journey, a household chore, absolutely anything..email your mp3 to me [StevenBrown[at]listenhear.co.uk] and I'll include it in our exhibition.

I hope you'll be able to contribute, please feel free to pass this invitation on to any of your friends who may also be interested. You need to make sure I receive the mp3 before Saturday 17th...

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Tokyo and Release

July 3, 2010 @ 12:21 pm

A few months ago I found a box of mysterious unlabelled cassettes, for those of you who know me this will not come as any surprise, so I selected a few items and dug out an old player to take a listen....

I found some material which I'd recorded in Tokyo, whilst I was out there on tour with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1990's, one was particularly interesting, it was also very poorly recorded. I'd obviously left my device on (a Sony Pro Cassette Recorder), in my bag, whilst I was travelling around Tokyo on the subway. I can't help but wonder if it was the special day, which influenced me so much, that I talk about in this book?

So anyway, here's my (non generative) musical response to what I found, featuring excerpts from that Tokyo recording.

AT LAST 'the dying breath of summer and other short stories' is available on CD and download (in every format you could ever want) further details here! Please buy it

For readers of this blog I'm offering a special 50% discount on the download version, valid until 1st August 2010, just use the code listenhearpromo1.

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The Dying Breath of Summer…

June 13, 2010 @ 11:25 pm

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An excerpt from the track The Dying Breath of Summer, from my forthcoming release the dying breath of summer and other short stories.

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Experiment 100:1/AudioMulch

May 2, 2010 @ 11:11 pm

A quiet sunday night at home in Brighton, playing with AudioMulch and some of my diary recordings from the past few weeks. I like this software but feel that I never use it to it's full potential, something I need to address.

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Clockwork Stegosaurus

March 23, 2010 @ 12:32 am

So...I wanted to test out my new PreSonus soundcard...I'm sat at my desk and all I have to hand is my Rode NT4 microphone and my favourite pencil sharpener which also happens to be a wind up Stegosaurus...silver...what more do I need!?

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Prawn Cracker

February 1, 2010 @ 12:36 pm

A lazy Sunday, yesterday. Cinema, Chinese takeaway and a nap in front of the television. So anyway, the sound of a Prawn Cracker after it's been dipped in Sweet and Sour sauce. No doubt, I'll use this as something else in the future, perhaps one day it'll be the basis of crackling fire?...in a theatre near you...who knows...what, where, how, when, why...

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Don’t those years just fly by…

January 23, 2010 @ 6:07 pm

The 3rd Birthday for this site...my 4th entry for January 23rd...

Thank you to everyone who's subscribed, and everyone who just logs in from time to time.

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Copenhagen Summit

December 23, 2009 @ 6:49 pm

Like a lot of people I try to take a balanced view of politics and world affairs. I watch the BBC news, Channel 4’s usually excellent coverage of events, Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News and the alternative, online, Democracy Now, I read the Guardian, the Metro when travelling and the Washington Post, New York Times and Le Monde, I even been known to thumb the Daily Mail. I try to absorb as much mainstream and Indy media as I can in an often frustrating effort to make sense of the world in order to hopefully construct an informed opinion.

 

Like most of the world I’m of the opinion that the recent Copenhagen Climate Change summit was a disaster, it got off to a bad start and simply got worse.

 

One lasting memory of recent weeks and something which I hope isn’t a warning to us all was Barack Obama’s stuttering and unfocussed press conferences, (when he finally found time to honour this world gathering with his presence). Dare I say these reminded me of George W Bush at his finest/worst (delete as applicable).  He was totally unconvincing as he worryingly um’d, ah’d and paused his way through badly prepared speeches, seemingly and slightly disturbingly, completely unconvinced himself by the words he was uttering. His statements and presentations were monumentally disastrous. I want Obama to be a success and I share this hope with a great many millions across the world, but if Copenhagen is anything to go by then….but maybe this was just a blip. Although he actually summed up, perfectly, the whole event and the feelings shared by most of us following it with his absolute inability to appear, or sound, convincing.

 

This isn’t very festive post, and I apologise, but the words, gestures and manoeuvrings in Copenhagen have been ringing in my ears and playing on my conscience as I endlessly queue in shops and surf the internet searching for gifts for the people close to me, being a consumer, wasting resources and feeling guilty, as I have for many years whilst doing this. I try not to purchase goods from major chain stores, but sometimes I do, I try to shop in a way, and purchase products, which have a minimal negative effect on our environment, but sometimes I fail and always promise to myself to do better next year.

 

The dialogue I've used in the my piece below features Barrack Obama, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and The Guardians brilliant George Morbiot.

 

Whatever you believe and wherever you are I wish you...

 

Merry Christmas,

Happy Holidays,

Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!,

Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!

Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok,

Hyvaa joulua, Joyeux Noel,

Fröhliche Weihnachten,

Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah, Buone Feste Natalizie,

Sung Tan Chuk Ha,

Feliz Navidad

Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar,

Nadolig Llawen,

Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

Nodlaig mhaith chugnat, Maligayan Pasko!

 

And a peaceful 2010.

 

And maybe we could all do worse than spend just a little time over this holiday period reflecting on our responsibilities towards the planet which we’re currently charged with looking after.

 

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/changethefuture

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Framework

November 10, 2009 @ 6:59 pm

Framework:afield

 

Continuing the recent ‘radio’ theme here’s my recent interview which was broadcasted on the stations below. I’m responding to questions from producer Karen Lauke (http://www.karenlauke.com). You can listen to Karen’s programme in full at any of the below or, http://www.archive.org/details/2009.11.08FrameworkRadio

 

It also features an excellent interview with the Ewan Stefani.

 

/*framework*/ - phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity presented by patrick mcginley

 

/*framework*/ broadcasts:

    - sunday, 10pm, london, uk on *resonance 104.4fm* (http://www.resonancefm.com)

    - tuesday, 2pm, london, uk on *resonance 104.4fm* (http://www.resonancefm.com)

    - wednesday, 12am, thessaloniki, gr on *cooradio* (http://www.cooradio.com)

    - wednesday, 3am, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)

    - thursday, 7pm, lisbon, pt on *radio zero* (http://www.radiozero.pt)

    - friday, 1am, brussels, be on *radio campus 92.1fm* (http://www.radiocampusbruxelles.org)

    - saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on *soundartradio 102.5fm* (http://www.soundartradio.org.uk)

 

*for general info, playlists, podcasts, or to stream the latest edition at any time: http://www.frameworkradio.net * *framework is supported by /soundtransit/: http://www.soundtransit.nl *

 

Framework and all of the stations listed above are excellent and deserve our support!

 

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