Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1110261810200.9733@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Sounds of Eyebeam: Analog to Digital
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ Sounds of Eyebeam: Analog to Digital http://www.alansondheim.org/marfil0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/marfil1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/marfil2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/marfil3.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/marfil4.mp3 recording made with Westinghouse vibration mic fed into mono Marantz cassette recorder; the result was downloaded into Audacity and edited in CoolEdit. Different versions above have different filtering. Analog was used to avoid digital issues between the mic and recorder. The sound was gathered at a number of sites in Eyebeam, most of them involving metal grids: stairways, interior fencing, upper-level flooring. The result was a gathering of resonances between metal, Eyebeam-body (interior space), and sounds transmitted either in air or directly through metal. The harmonic structures are strong and dissonant. The body cries out in murderous delight. Down the street, an 18-wheeler is gathering up the disassembled Matthew Barney work. Such heavy metal would have collapsed with a thud. Elsewhere lighter-than-air work delights the blue-grey sky and rain is forecast. The Eyebeam building is singing everywhere. It is singing You can't catch me. You can't catch me.