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Residency Day 3 Collage of a bit of today's rehearsal activities...

Residency Day 2 This is just a short bit of raw rehearsal from today's work at the NBMAA. Levels aren't great etc. - but that's not what this is about...

Residency Begins: from noise to silence We loaded into the NBMAA today and began the long, arduous and rather complicated process of setting up the various systems we will be using for Sunday's performance. As a parallel process to this, today's podcast is a process piece that moves from the noise

Soundwalk 09 This final soundwalk in the new NBMAA basement includes a variety of both subtle and obvious changes in ambience as well as a fair amount of talking - mostly unintelligible. It acts as a kind of soundwalk review, passing through many of the rooms and other areas of the basement that I

Repetition Like a word repeated over and over again, with each repetition the sound and meaning and rhythm seems to change...

Repetition Like a word repeated over and over again, with each repetition the sound and meaning and rhythm seems to change...

Repetition Like a word repeated over and over again, with each repetition the sound and meaning and rhythm seems to change...

Hammering/Resonance A short site source that focuses on the room resonance of the building while under construction.

Window Schedule Video in silence...

Soundwalk 08 Another soundwalk through various parts of the new NBMAA building under construction. My favorite part in this one, toward the end - was following my ears to a sound that turned out to be a little pressure gauge on one of the machines in the basement that was vibrating away - a sound

knocks & voices If you’ve examined the reliquary of labor website or podcast, you should know that we encourage our visitors and podcast followers to participate in this project by creating other pieces or remixes from these sound, noise, music, photo and video pieces and submitting them to us

MetaPodcast Today’s episode is a direct link to the podcast link discussed yesterday. Click below and listen...

Feedback This video from Lief was composed/compiled from various soundfiles and videos from the reliquary of labor podcast series. It was composed entire in MAX/MSP Jitter and uses as its structural premise the delay line feedback loop, both audio and video, as a primary generative element.

Silhouettes Video Some beautiful shadow images of ceilings being painted. The images are overlayed in a kind of multi-part shadow canon - in silence...

Banging/Tapping/Hammering/Compacting There are a rich variety of percussive site sound sources here. If you listen carefully you'll also hear the sound of arc welders and their generator as well as crane sounds (not birds).

Tapping Some More During the welding phase of the framing of the new NBMAA building this tapping sound was nearly omnipresent. It has found its way into much of the composed score for the premiere performance on Nov. 26. Here is another site sound source of tapping.

Another submitted video This is another video submitted by Lief Ellis. It utilizes a variety of materials from the reliquary website and podcast including: photo and soundwalk. It was constructed and processed in MAX/MSP Jitter.

A Few Processed Sound Sources

Soundwalk 07: further adventures in the basement The most interesting element in this soundwalk is the juxtaposition of the sounds of the HVAC system and the electrical room punctuated by voices and construction noises.

Logo Filter 01 This is a site sound source filtered by the modified logo image to the left. I imagine the result to be what a creature living underneath the construction site would have heard as it burrowed upward, poking its head out of the ground to see/hear what was going on, and then continuin

Tapers Acoustics This is a site sound source that has been filtered in MetaSynth through the use of a modified form of the 'tapers acoustics' photo used on this page. And the silent bit in the middle? It is meant to be there - its the black vertical bar in the middle right of the filter picture ab

Tamping A brief variety of manipulated tamping sounds overlaid, rhythmicized and mixed.

Tapping Breaking the slag off of hardened welds.

Welders and Hawk

Another Site Sound Source Both inside and outside. Prominent aural features include: tape measure, drill/drywall screws, hammering of various kinds, sanding, ladder adjustments etc.

Combine:recombine:recyclE This is another remix of video material submitted by Lief Ellis. It is a combination of video material from celloscope and reliquary logo video. The soundtrack by Steen is a recombination of the slowed down logo audio, Scratching the Surface - podcast #29 - and, In Searc

Soundwalk 06: in the basement... The most obvious sounds heard here are the HVAC and electrical systems. There are visits to various other rooms in the basement of the new NBMAA building: fire alarm and protection systems, hallways and storage area. You can also hear subtle changes in the sound o

Speaking of Blueprints This piece was constructed from text derived from various parts of the blueprints for the new NBMAA building and renovation. The recording of the voice was made by speaking through one of the plumbing pipes that will be used as a percussion instrument with the mic placed

Elevator/Ladder

Ohmain. This is a :15 piece comprised of manipulated sound sources.

Soundwalk 05 A typical day on the construction site inside the Chase Family building. Some of the sounds heard either in the foreground or in the distance are: a scissorlift, mudders on stilts, worker conversation and, the interruption...

Rubble (in silence...)

Tapers...

Plumbing, singing...

This is a brief duo for evc + accelerometer glove and a variety of manipulated sound sources.

Raking Another brief site-source video, in silence...

celloscope remix Today’s episode is a bit of a switch. If you’ve examined the reliquary of labor website or podcast, you should know that we encourage our visitors and podcast followers to participate in this project by creating other pieces or remixes from these sound, noise, music, photo and vide

Soundwalk 04: in the Chase Family Building while it was under construction. There are sounds from close up as well as from far away that reverberate through the interior space. This is unedited. While I tended to linger in various locations for short bits of time, for the most part I kept moving th

ScissorLift This is a brief site-source video...

Another granular synthesis experiment applied to a modified construction site sound source. Like individual snapshots revealing an overall contour rather than a detailed composite.

Welders from reliquary of labor preview: 08.31.06 Jeff Krieger, evc Quey Percussion Duo: Tim Brocious and Gene Koshinski

Old Gallery Soundwalk 03 Lots of creaking floorboards contrasted with creaking floorboards under wall-to-wall carpet - still the omnipresent HVAC noise - and the crackling sound from a neon light sculpture.

Dust Settles no56 This is a video that Gene edited to last week’s audio episode #36. This is an example of the kind of inter-media dialog that has been a key part of our collaborative process.

Heard Through the Image of a Mural Today's episode is a construction site sound source that has been filtered in an application called Metasynth through the use of a photograph of the center panel of Thomas Hart Benton's mural entitled "Arts of the City". These Benton murals are signature works in

Flapping Tyvek processed in a variety of ways

EVC Drowned more site sound sources + drowning evc

sledgehammer video

And the Dust Settles I imagine this piece to be a kind of sonic interpretation - [uh-oh, program music] - of the dust from the partial demolition of the Landers House settling. And, as it settles, there is an apparition of the results of the renovation process to come. This piece is constructe

Simultaneous site ambience...