Highlights from the CurrentSoundscapes project Week 1 — April 10 thru April 16, 2020. Tag your tracks with #CurrentSoundscapes by midnight next Thursday to be featured.

1. velocity vs boredom

– Find and record a percussive and/or repetitive sound from your environment and incorporate it into your piece at two different speeds or pitches. Please do not source a sound from the internet, but rather, find and use one from your surroundings. Maximum length for this first piece is 180 seconds total.

CurrentSoundscapes 4.10.20 — 4.16.20 velocity vs. boredom

#CurrentSoundscapes April 10, 2020

This is a sonic invitation to to Cycle 1: Digging In, Week 1. The first theme is #velocityvsboredom. The wind chimes (and wind) were recorded outside my place in Santa Fe. Other sounds include cicadas, crickets at dusk, text-to-speech app, and a bit of "found audio" recorded in San Francisco, California that I've had for a few years.
More info at https://currentsnewmedia.org/currentsoundscapes/
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CurrentSoundscapes Invitation

Created by Tenali Hrenak & Kristen Blinne for #CurrentSoundscapes #CurrentNewsMedia #velocityVsboredom

This sound painting features a menagerie of music boxes as well as swinging chimes, a wind-up toy, and random field recordings from around the house. The voices in the mix come from the 1979 record, "The Multi-lingual Bird," an album to help train talking birds to speak Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Yiddish.

velocity vs boredom

Safe 'N Sound

Sound Collage of Field recordings during Covid_19. The main recorded processed sound is heavy rain water running off the roof, landing in a dry garden of pebbles. There is a Bus also recorded and other elements form the street. Different pitches of the same sound was part of the request by #CurrentNewsMedia #currentsoundscapes #velocityVSboredom *Spacecraft software was used to fuck around with pitches and harmonics.

SONIC ATTACK - Current Soundscapes 1.0

take 6 (CurrentSoundscapes Cycle 1)

This track is built entirely from a recording of my wife running a sewing machine.  It is recorded directly onto laptop from the internal laptop mic.  She has been sewing masks while listening to the news.  In the background, some of the voices from the TV come through. for #CurrentsSoundscapes Cycle 1/ week 1

Sewing Machine

The soundscape was built using only samples from our washing machine spin cycle, processed in Ableton Live, for the #CurrentSoundscapes challenge by Currents New Media. https://currentsnewmedia.org/currentsoundscapes
This week's theme : velocity vs boredom
– Find and record a percussive and/or repetitive sound from your environment and incorporate it into your piece at two different speeds or pitches. Please do not source a sound from the internet, but rather, find and use one from your surroundings.
(Each week on Friday at noon MT,  Currents will release a theme related to a 5-week cycle. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a short sonic piece on this theme.)

take 6 (CurrentSoundscapes Cycle 1)

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