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what are you hearing / listening to right now?

David Miller — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:11:38 +0000

zoom h2 field recorder

if you could record what you were hearing right now, what would it be?

mine: motorcycles heading out of town on ruta 40. dogs in the barrio. typing sounds. 10:10 PM, El Bolsón, Patagonia

ambient sketch 124 bpm

David Miller — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:19:09 +0000

king tubby break 04

synth wave at 124 bpm

chopped up / remixed break from hungy belly dub, king tubby

audio postcard: los colque fiesta vs. hungry belly dub

David Miller — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:59:05 +0000

last night there was a fiesta for abuelo colque’s 68th birthday. layla heard the music and wanted to go over there. we walked out and the colque kids met us at the fence then invited us over. i took a little field recording as we were walking in. this morning i mixed it with king tubby’s ‘hungry belly dub.’ the idea was to capture what it feels like walking into a family-style asado / fiesta in latin america.

colque fiesta hungry belly mix

notes:

night was pretty cold, around 40 degrees, clear, and one of the boys, paulo, asks @0:17 if layla is cold.
@1:03 couin (16) sings ‘olvidarme’ in drunken way.
@1:04 brisa (12) says to her cousin (16) ‘te vi tomando, no te confio mas.’ (i saw you drinking, i don’t trust you anymore’.)
@1:23 ‘hungry belly’ drops in.
@3:25 there is a clicking sound. it’s one of the colque men hammering a spit (that had a side of lamb flayed across it) deeper into the ground by fire.
started messing around with audio panning to duplicate way it feels when you walk around different places by the speakers.
mix ends with me greeting the family matriarch, adela colque.

Sonic Postcard: Cumbia

David Miller — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:31:42 +0000

There were these kids from Bogota playing Cumbia in the plaza today. They played one song called “La Carrudu” that I recorded and then came home and mixed it with a synth wave. I’m not really even sure what you call this. If it had more elements, voices, ppl talking at the plaza, traffic-sounds, it might be like an audio postcard. But I ended up mixing it so it’s like being in a place, being with people, but then just drifting inside yourself where everything sounds underwater.

la carrudu + dm wave2