A button on itunes or other music player that takes your current playlist and inserts stories as introductions to each piece of music from those it can find in its story database. Stories could be drawn, for example, from the Desert Island Disks back catalogue. You might have an explanation from a musician for one song, a politician for the next.
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Notes from binaural recordings in Marfa, TX
I love how these read like some sort of miniature poetry. Maybe one day I’ll upload some of the recordings.
disk 4 2005-07-04 12_44.wav - supermarket 6.8 Mb 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav - supermarket talking in background 11.7 Mb 2005-07-04 13_16.wav - squacking bird, too windy 3.1 MB 19s 2005-07-04 13_16(1).wav - quiet a few birds 22.1 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 13_20.wav - cleaning up sounds 14.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_23.wav - bbq little wind at start 22.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 14_25.wav - clearing sticks train in the middle 66.6 Mb * really high pitched sounds 2005-07-04 17_21.wav - town and country 19.2 Mb 2005-07-04 17_58(1).wav - windmill and laughing *** good for radio 2005-07-04 18_01.wav - cars and windmills (a touch of wind) 23.1 Mb ** bit windy, maybe ok 2005-07-04 18_37.wav - rustling birds wind at end 8.3 Mb windy 2005-07-04 18_39.wav - flies, cars, rumble 13.2 Mb *** good for radio (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 19_38(1).wav - talk, fireworks, some wind in middle 20.4 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 20_11.wav - klang klang wind at start and end 17.5 Mb windy 2005-07-04 20_13.wav - drips and wind mill 11.2 Mb ** make into loop cut before beeps at end 2005-07-04 20_57.wav - mdstartup noise, long approach car, some birds 18.8 Mb windy 2005-07-04 21_10(1).wav - v quiet. metal tinking. birds. cow at end pinto canyon road 18.4 Mb ** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_14.wav - cows, birds insect, stone throwing 31.3 Mb *** (speaking at very end) 2005-07-04 21_38.wav - bad sound in car, car door, after dusk at pinto canyon, cars passing 52 MB 5m10s *** edit down start 2005-07-04 22_23.wav - town and country after dark, train passing 27.7MB 2m45s 2005-07-05 06_51.wav - windy then quiet then windy luna at the arroyo, dogs and roosters, distant highway 53.9MB 5m21s 2005-07-05 06_59.wav - amber at luna on the last morning, birdies chirping, roosters 25.3MB 2m31s wind 2005-07-05 07_26.wav - Ben at luna on the last morning, birdies, dogs, roosters, crickets 32.2MB 3m12s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 7_37.wav - Burros and pissing and and crickets and a truck at luna 58.7MB 5m49s *** (speaking at very end) radio too 2005-07-05 9_11.wav - footsteps and birds, beautiful, quiet metal banging 14.7MB 1m28s ** wind through 2005-07-05 9_13.wav - good cars passing rockshop, quiet, 14.2MB 1m25s ** edit off start 2005-07-05 9_14.wav - GOOD TRUCK (topped out) 11.8MB 1m11s 2005-07-05 9_16.wav - seven minutes of perfection, am at rockshop 73.6MB 7m18s **** fade in and out 2005-07-05 9_23.wav - one minute of perfection, am at rockshop ** a little wind 2005-07-05 9_32.wav - truck at rockshop 9.2MB 55s 2005-07-05 9_57.wav - Good! train tracks by the drug blimp 54.8MB 5m25s 2005-07-05 11_54.wav - annoying mexican radio broadcast 45.7MB 4m32s disk 3 2005-09-13 19_01.wav - TALKING the fear is that the train was going away 13.7MB 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02.wav - TALKING I don't hear anything. 1m22s 2005-09-13 19_02(1).wav - TALKING and cars 7m17s 2005-09-13 19_02(2).wav - drunk and under the shirt, beer bottles 5m07s 2005-09-13 19_03.wav - nowheresville 18s 2005-09-13 19_03(1).wav - redford dog story 1m48s 2005-09-13 19_03(2).wav - junk 02s 2005-09-13 19_03(3).wav - blather 1m45s 2005-09-13 19_04.wav - this is the train, shh 5m56s 2005-09-13 19_04(1).wav - crickets, cars, listening from trestle, some wind, scratchy 5m45s disk 2 2005-07-03 13_31.wav - judd 2m09s 2005-07-03 13_52.wav - footsteps, crunching at chinati, wind ~2m *** radio cut wind 2005-07-03 14_29.wav - inside artillery shed at chinati 1m53s *** radio cut talkk at very end 2005-07-03 14_35.wav - inside artillery, joey speaking 21s 2005-07-03 15_35.wav - what are you recording? crap 1m30s 2005-07-03 15_57.wav - boring 1m24s 2005-07-03 16_07.wav - joey braiding hair 1m07s 2005-07-03 19_24.wav - rays are supermarket 1m28s 2005-07-03 21_54.wav - wind 28s 2005-07-03 22_17.wav - 3m of crickets, then rest yapping 7m14s 2005-07-03 22_30.wav - loud, boring crickets with wind 49s 2005-07-03 22_30(1).wav - loud crickets and cars under trestle 2m20s 2005-07-03 22_43.wav - more crickets and cars under trestle 3m20s 2005-07-03 23_18.wav - this is the train from ben's mic 5m43s 2005-07-03 23_44.wav - crickets and cars again (plus one dooley) and some wind 1m14s 2005-07-03 23_45.wav - crickets, crickets and a car 1m23s 2005-07-04 00_08.wav - mumbling at the marfa lights and a truck or two 3m26s 2005-07-04 00_27.wav - luna crickets, foosteps and Lalito's engine 12m45s disk 1 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 8s 2005-09-13 18_22(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23.wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(1).wav - wmbr 2005-09-13 18_23(2).wav - rockshop rustling not so crappy but crappy 2005-09-13 18_23(3).wav - testing rockshop 15s 2005-09-13 18_23(4).wav - birdies and cars ar rockshop; some wind but not bad especially at the end, train horn in distance 5m20s 2005-09-13 18_24.wav - wind 8s 2005-09-13 18_24(1).wav - lots of wind and drops of rain on tin and rustling, cars 1m27s 2005-09-13 18_24(2).wav - wind. metal. 2005-09-13 18_26.wav - nothing 2005-09-13 18_26(1).wav - rain and thunder. nice a bit short 2005-09-13 18_26(2).wav - rain and thunder. 2005-09-13 18_26(3).wav - thunder and rain. 2005-09-13 18_26(4).wav - wind. birds. laughing. "hello" 2005-09-13 18_26(5).wav - rustle rustle. wind. 2005-09-13 18_27.wav - wind and rustle. then quiet rooster. then more wind. 2005-09-13 18_27(1).wav - boring. 2005-09-13 18_27(2).wav - trying to record the train. *** radio 2005-09-13 18_27(3).wav - glitch 2005-09-13 18_27(4).wav - train horn bad wind in middle. 2005-09-13 18_27(5).wav - rustle. late night fire talking. 2005-09-13 18_28.wav - aroya. wind and mic knocking. 2005-09-13 18_28(1).wav - long windy walk through aroyo 2005-09-13 18_29.wav - frogs and crickets 20s of good then windy 2005-09-13 18_29(1).wav - slow fade in and out. crickets and aroyo 2005-09-13 18_30.wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(1).wav - 2005-09-13 18_30(2).wav - rock shop birds short wind: 2005-07-04 12_44(1).wav 2005-07-04 17_58.wav 2005-07-05 9_12.wav 2005-07-05 9_56.wav - crunching, walking and wind 10.5MB 1m03s short speaking: 2005-07-04 18_45.wav - throwing rocks 18 Mb 2005-07-04 22_55.wav - luna "what are you thinking- of painting the house white?" 9.1 MB 55s bad: 2005-07-04 18_21.wav - banging headphones test 2005-07-04 19_38.wav - nothing 2005-07-04 21_10.wav - not much 2.2 Mb