The 2024 US Open Sound Experiment

Episode 132 The 2024 US Open Sound Experiment Playlist Note: The starting times indicate at which time during the podcast a sound begins. The tracks often overlap based on the given length of each track. Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 03:36 00:00 1.     Chair Umpires 01:19 05:24 2.     USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Granular effect, Classic. 03:46 05:40 3.     USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Quick Sampler, Bent Guitar. 06:16 07:20 4.     USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Blur 01:50 09:08 5.     USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Low/High Cut. 02:58 10:56 6.     Arthur Ashe Stadium, Meta-Synth, Inertia setting 25:16 11:26 7.     Grandstand Stadium, Meta-Synth, Inertia setting, 08:36 12:16 8.     Grandstand Stadium, Auto-Filter, Constant Rise Four Bars. 08:33 29:48 9.     Grandstand Stadium, Arturia MiniFilter V, Beatchopper. 08:33 31:02 10.   Arthur Ashe Stadium, Delay Designer, Buzz Pattern. 26:05 34:40 11.   Louis Armstrong Stadium, Delay Designer, Pulse Groove. 24:42 54:36 12.   Grandstand Stadium, AutoFilter, Volume Gate Filter. 22:31 01:16:38 13.   Arthur Ashe Stadium, Pedlboard, Blue Echo, Squash Compressor. 30:28 01:36:28 14.   East Village Neighborhood, AutoFilter, Resonant High Pass; Delay Designer, Ring and Roll. 27:28 01:37:56 15.   USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Granular effect, Classic. 07:56 02:02:48 16.   USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Quick Sampler, Bent Guitar. 08:02 02:03:56 17.   USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Blur 03:46 02:06:59 18.   USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Low/High Cut. 02:54 02:09:44   Recording equipment used: Zoom Hn4 Pro digital recorder; Shure CVB-B/O Boundary Condenser Microphone; Boya Omnidirectional Cardioid XLR Lavalier Microphone.   Opening background music: Opening background music: A mix of tennis recordings set to a track called “Make It Good” by DJ Tennis (2012 Life and Death). The tennis recordings include excerpts from Arthur Ashe, Learn Tennis (For Beginners & Advanced Players) (1974 Manhattan Recording Company), John Newcombe, Tennis With John Newcombe (1974 K-Tel), and Evonne Goolagong, Tennis Tips By Evonne Goolagong (1975 Fleetwood Records), narrated with questions by Bud Collins. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.