FundamentallySound Blog

For a city so full of people actively making sound, sound art shows are strangely unusual. I just attribute it as another anomaly in this "wacky" (how I loathe that word) city.

So I was very excited about being part of Sound Device last night. My piece was a collection of 88 small scores with instructions to record a certain type of sound with your cell phone and leave it as a "message" at a phone number. I awoke this morning to an exciting array of totally exciting sounds. And because the codec used in cell phones is really geared only for the spectrum of sound in which human voice falls, when it is used to record other sounds they turn out sounding highly processed and wonderfully weird. I can't wait to get started composing them into ringtones.

I also got to meet some people I've been wanting to talk to for a while, like PB8 and Channing Kennedy (who was wearing amazing glasses) (video).