Audio Downloads, Loopers
The audio files linked to these pages are high-quality mp3 files, and may be downloaded free of charge for personal or educational use. Please right-click on the links to download and save.
On this page there are links to audio works based on looping; most of them are made using variations on repeated electronic choruses.
- Noise Memorials
- These two poems are written in memory of two huge influences on electronic composition, John Cage and Ilhan Mimaroglu.
- Bad Transistor
- The text of the poem is here.
- Notes on its composition and recording are here.
- In Memoriam Ilhan Mimaroglu
- The text of the poem is here.
- Notes on its composition and recording are here.
- Remainders
- Notes on the poems are here.
- So What
- Flutter Churn
- Too Many Marys
- Clinkers
- Coda, More Fables of
Alack, Hoot
This is a fractured stereo loop of a "five minute precis" of Jean-Luc Nancy's text Listening or A l'ecoute. The original material was recorded on a Sony PCM field recorder in a graduate seminar I conducted on the "Poetics of Listening" at the University of British Columbia, on 19 September 2009. I have edited out any voices other than mine, although you can still hear papers being shuffled and the odd background murmur from the students in the seminar. The point was (for me, at least) to try to put into practice, or to give material performative form to, some of the principles articulated around the philosophy of sound by Nancy, an interrupted and non-recursive loop of found voice, of a smallishly resonant speaking self.
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