face-melting guitar, vocals that stretch the human voice to its limits: caustic to guttural, to epicly operatic. Echoes of rage, alienation, the desire to withdraw into a charred sonic landscape.
Unfortunately I don’t have much time to make this digital story into anything decent, or that I’d be proud of…. I’ve combined the following tracks into one song that is 5 mins 11 secs long (the outro is long for credits & such, so its really more like 4 mins).
Ear to thorax, hearing the sounds from a world to which we are outside, I know the essence of life and its living…. Unabashedly, we look into the furnaces that forged this people from the ore of time in the bowels of the earth, in all our glorious good and hideous evil.
Walking on Clouds by Gilad Benari In Absentia by ilSilenzio Little Fish by SeaFairy Shadows of Dismember by Caroline Traitler
Sentence 1: “The sidewalks of St. Charles Place have been cracked to shards by through-growing weeds.”
I realized I had no post for this on my blog, so I figured I’d add it. I made it a while back, and it’s a little rough in places, but I’m still pretty happy with the way it came out.
In each of these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while standing in that exact spot, and engaging in the physical experience of being right where the story takes place…. We know about the skyscrapers, sports stadiums and landmarks, but [murmur] looks for the intimate, neighbourhood-level voices that tell the day-to-day stories that make up a city.
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Enjoy.Mongolia, land of the clear blue sky, transforms at night; her blue skies fade to reveal the blackness of empty space, punctuated by the glow of distant stars .
