PODCAST · music
Lullaby Utopia
by Cooper Schlegel
Olympia WA ambient double bass sleep aid
Episodes
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Olympia Old Time Festival (Squaredances)
I was able to go to one day of the Oly Old Time Festival, a yearly event celebrating American folk musics, and take a couple field recordings. There are three recordings of square dances, two of the family dance and one of the night dance. I enjoyed myself immensely, learned new perspectives from...
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Proposal!
(View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzfGNMOt3a0. [It’s way cooler to see the pictures of what is happening in real time.]) Me and Brianna are getting married! The first eleven minutes of the podcast are the actual surprise proposal itself. If you want to get a feel for the whole...
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San Diego Part 3: Feeding Flamingos, Owen's Aviary at Sunset, Tecolote Canyon at Sunrise
This is the last part of the San Diego series. Two recordings from San Diego Zoo, one from behind the flamingo pen where me and Brianna fed the flamingos dog soaked in water (the watery tchick-tchick-tchick sound is the flamingos feeding). We caught sunset in Owen’s Aviary, which was amazing. The...
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San Diego Part 2: (LA) Griffith Observatory/Park & Thiên Hậu Temple
This is part two of three of our trip to southern California. About halfway in the middle of our trip we drove out to LA to see my aunt Deanna and uncle John. They met us in Griffith Park, and took us to Chinatown for dinner and to see the Thiên Hậu Taoist Temple. You can hear all the fans they…
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San Diego Part 1: Silver Strand Beach Sunset/Going out on the Bay
I went with my family (Mom, Dad, Isabelle, and Brianna) to San Diego for the holidays, and got some good field recordings. I’m going to put them in the shows in the order I recorded them in, which presents some challenges, especially with the overall narrative. The two field recordings in this...
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Halloween at Long Last
I found my halloween recordings! My recording device attaches a date to each recording, which is always in the year of 2007. It’s almost like digital preemptive time travel. I was searching for files to delete to free up space on my computer and found my old recordings! Hurrah! There are two big...
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Dad's Birthday!
I went through some old home videos (the source of the fuzz you’ll here in this) and picked out 54 different soundclips, which I plugged into my computer so it could choose between them at random. As always when I give my computer the ability to make all the choices it surprises me with what it...
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Capitol Mall
Unfortunately all of my halloween field recordings were lost in the sands of time, so I had to take more field recordings this week. I decided to go the mall for some field recordings in the food court and outside the movie theater. I also took a walk on Kenyon st. going away from the mall and…
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KAOS fall pledge drive and October wind
In honor of the KAOS fall pledge drive (our goal of 10k was met!!) I added more voices to the pledge drive randomizer and reworked the whole think a little bit. KAOS is made up of amazing community members who don’t get anything for djing, not even: 1. money, 2. internet points, 3.…
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Last Week's Live Show REMIX
Short show this week, also NEXT LIVE SHOW NEXT TUESDAY @ SPITE HOUSE IN SEATTLE: https://www.facebook.com/events/911842465875980/
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LIVE SHOW TONIGHT 9PM @ THE HOBBIT HOLE (house show) 201 Milroy St NW in OLY
I took some rain sounds before the radio broadcast of some October rain. When I got inside to edit them, I loaded them up and thought "wow the sound of the small droplets onto the surface of the large puddles sounds really cool! I should go out and get more of that sound!" but by the time I…
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Oktoberfest
I went to Oktoberfest with my parents for the first time in a number of years this last weekend and had a lot of fun. Good food, and if you sign up to be a designated driver you get free soda and coffee. This episode was a little departure from the norm. Live show coming up next week @ the hobbit...
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Helping My Sister Move Into College
Me and my mom helped my sister move into where she'll be staying for college, and I had a great time! My sister was a little stressed, as was my mom, but not me, because I brought my equipment to take field recordings. In this episode you'll hear us sitting at a restaurant, lugging stuff into the...
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Teleidoscope on a Family Picnic with back-catalog (Double Feature Part 2.)
(See the part one summary)
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Teleidoscope on a Family Picnic with back-catalog/Meditation (Double Feature)
I have two episodes in one here: One is all bass and one is all field recordings. It’s like choose your own adventure. I needed to meditate on some stuff last week, and so I chose to do the show unaccompanied (for the most part, I did cheat a little bit halfway through with the help of my sister...
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Sleep Sounds/Simple Night Sounds
I've been thinking about getting a stethoscope to try and capture body sounds, but pressing my ear up against someone works well. I just have to edit out the gurgly noises, and I'm left with some breaths and clicks and faint thumps. Maybe a stethoscope would get heartbeats better. Also in this...
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Skateboards, Fountain and Jake
I was walking past the local skatepark downtown and was drawn in by the sounds. I asked the kids there if they were ok with me recording them and they all got up and started skating to make more sound! Dope! Thank you James, JJ, Jo Jo, Jacob, Dalton, and Greg for skating. And then just down the...
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Company Picnic
I played a company picnic for my Dad’s workplace with my good friend/mentor Steve Luceno and my sister got some recordings of it which you can hear in the third third of the show. I programmed all the recordings she took and was hoping it would select the piñata getting beat but it never got…
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Cicadas and a Big Hello to my Chicago Family
Another Isabelle travelogue episode, she is with my mom in Chicago and you can hear the annual cicadas in the recordings she sent back. (They are not the every 17 year cicadas, but a different species [every continental state has 4 or more species of cicada]). I’m really happy that they’re out...
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I think it's a Great Horned Owl/Crickets/Thunder
Since there were no field recordings last week, there’s a wealth of them this week. There was an owl hanging around our place whose hoots I stole. Judging from online video comparison I think it’s a great horned owl, but if you think otherwise please let me know at [email protected]. Did…
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Happy Birthday Isabelle!
No field recordings this week, just a medley of different things. I attempted something vaporwave-y the first half but it just ended up sounding like what I usually put out, and it opens up towards the second half. There's a little clipping here and there due to me having the line into the...
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Sounds of the Smith Residence - for Dale
Brianna here! For this week I joined Cooper in the studio to make a special episode for my dad. He is thankfully okay, but he was in a serious car accident while headed back from a work trip earlier this week. Even though he called us right away to keep us updated, it was still a very scary...
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Hope Island (disappointed)
My and Brianna kayaked out to hope island, which has a campsite only accessible by boat. We were hoping to get a spot but all the sites were taken, so we sat on the beach and felt bummed out for a while. During which I took a field recording!
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Haircut/Lakefair
I got a haircut! Around this time last year I recorded lakefair, and that was around when I started doing the show. I did it again.
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Oakville 5th of July (4th of July) Parade
Semi-live this time (had to prerecord it because I’m playing shows in the Olympia Free Jazz Festival!). The Fourth of July parade in Oakville featured a number of Brianna’s family members as well as a crowd which outnumbered the population of Oakville.
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FOURTH OF JULY/Free Jazz Festival samples
For fourth of july my family went out to eat sushi, and my mom ordered the “mexican roll,” which along with the hotdogs I had for lunch seemed just about the most American meal ever. We went to the 3rd of july fireworks show, which you’ll hear right of the beginning of this episode, and I was…
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Graduations! and some thunder
This year I went to three whole graduation ceremonies, two that my sister isabelle was in (whose traveloges you can hear in past episodes), and one that I played in. One was for Capitol High here in Oly, one for South Puget Sound Community College here in Oly, and one for the Freedom Education...
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Moonlit backyard/Laser Cutter from Dale's work
WARNING: THE LASER CUTTER IN THIS EPISODE SOUNDS LIKE A VENTILATOR Dale (Brianna’s dad) told me about a laser cutter that makes a cool sound at his workplace, so I packed my gear to record it. In person it’s not very loud at all and it makes the room smell like someone is baking. I suppose that...
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Grange Party
IF YOU HAVE FIELD RECORDINGS TAKEN ON ANY OLD RECORDING DEVICE (including phones) OF A GOOD PLACE, PLEASE SEND THEM TO [email protected]
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Chris Reads Complaints Filed by Semi-Sentient NPCs
It’s been too long since I last had Christopher William Wolter on the show so I thought I’d ask him to do me a favor. You might have already figured out Lullaby Utopia is a large scale simulation, but down here we also play video games too. Some of the NPCs (non-player characters) have started...
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Kylie's Wedding/Brianna's Birthday
There were two things that happened this last week, my good friends Kylie and Chris got married! To each other! And I stole the sounds from the ceremony! Or rather Brianna did, because I was honored to be able to PLAY FOR THE CEREMONY! What are you kidding me? That’s boss! Thanks for trusting me...
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Long Airplane Landing and Walking by the Tracks
I found a field recording that I thought I lost! The landing from Madison in it’s entirety, from before we touch down to when I get out of the airport, and then a long field recording from around where I live where there’s a abandoned railway. I always fly with this special airline “Sunbeam” out…
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Procession of the Species and Cinco de Mayo
Some neighbors were celebrating Cinco de Mayo so I stole some of their music with my recording device! Don't tell anyone! Also in this episode is procession of the species, a local parade here in Olympia WA. You won't find any marching in formation in this parade, it's all pretty freeform....
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Etudes in Midwestern Rain/Richard
This will be the last show featuring field recordings from Madison, there’s a couple things that I put on the backburner, mainly Procession of the Species (a parade in my hometown Olympia, WA celebrating Earth Day), so expect some of that next week. I managed to get a small field recording in the...
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Bass Conference! Plane/Bus travel to Madison
I had a wonderful time in Madison reconnecting with Musician friends and teaching at the Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists conference. And I played a live show at the Alchemy with Left Field Compatriots Alex and Jake where we tried integrating the “Phonelines Stress Me Out” patch from...
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Bout to head out to MADISON/Powerlines Buzzing in the Rain
I had to prerecord the show (I usually do it live) because I just flew into Wisconsin today! In Wisconsin I will be teaching at the Richard Davis Conference for Young Bassists, and I will be reuniting for a show with my long lost bandmates Jacob Bicknase and Alex Charland from Left Field Quartet....
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KAOS Fund Drive/Tunnel in North Bend
This week is the 89.3 FM KAOS fund drive, and since I can’t pitch and play my bass at the same time I thought I’d do more of a themed show sort of deal. Lullaby Utopia has come a long way since I started, and being able to do the show live every week was a big part of that. I have to be…
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Goldmeyer Hotsprings in North Bend/Snoqualmie Area With Brianna
In February of 2018 me and my girlfriend Brianna decided to go on a trip instead of exchanging anything. We saved some money since then and finally took that trip this week. We drove up into the middle of Snoqualmie-Mt. Baker state forest, spent the night and started a hike right before dawn to...
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Phonelines Stress Me Out a Little Bit, and Industrial Sounds around Evergreen State College
Recently I listened to “Sorry Wrong Number,” a Suspense radio show episode from 1945. It’s an amazing short radio play from 1945 where there’s an entire universe encapsulated in one woman’s room and her phone. Terrifying! People just give her customer lip service when all she needs is someone to...
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Frogs from Chehalis, East Olympia and Tumwater, Slot Machines from a Casino
Did you know that the first slot machines were made by the “Liberty Bell” company, which is why they have bells? And that when San Francisco outlawed cash-payout slot machines in 1909, they were converted into gum dispensers, hence the fruit symbols for fruit flavors and the BAR for sticks of…
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an Art Museum in New Zealand and the KAOS Radio Building
One of the staff members at KAOS was tuned in at the beginning of the show and called to make sure the tower wasn't cutting out. "Is it supposed to sound like that?" You bet it is! But in all seriousness, thanks for listening and for having my back. This show concludes my sister's New Zealand...
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New Zealand Birds, Crickets (and cicadas I think)
My sister returned from New Zealand this week but not before sending back field recordings! The birds in this recording include but are not limited to chattering lory, plum-headed parakeet, bourkes parrot, king parrot, mulga parrot, cuban finch, south island kaka, long-billed corella, opaline...
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Magic Conch, Grandkids, New Zealand Ambience
Extra special thanks to Magic Conch, Mark, Rosa, Alexie, and Isabelle.
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Various Ways of Getting to Dunedin
Thanks Isabelle, Rosa, Imogen, and Georgia!
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Seatac Airport
My compatriot Jacob Bicknase was in town this week and we played a lot together during that time. Me and Jake were both part of Left Field Quartet in Madison WI a little while back (https://leftfieldquartet.bandcamp.com/releases). My sister sent me the first of a series of field recordings she is...
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge
When I took the field recording at the narrows bridge it wasn’t exactly sleep inducing. The coal trains were running underneath, the sound of the cars going over the bridge end was loud and obnoxious, and some dude rode what looked like a razor scooter with a lawnmower engine attached by. I had…
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Crazy Birds by my Apartment
I’ve written a more detailed overview of what I did which you can find here: https://www.cooperschlegel.com/lullaby-utopia/2019/1/25/1-31-19
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(MLK B-Day) Various Overlapping Places in Olympia
First 40 minutes in honor of MLK.
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1-17-19
Lots of patterns! I tried to make them clear, but let me know if you have questions.
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1-10-19
Special treat this week, 4 music machines from Marsh's free museum that go back all the way to the 1800's! And boy howdy a couple of them sound like they're 100+ years old.
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