It's time to dummy up and dummy down with 1987's "Mannequin" and the latest installment of the James Spader Podcast.  Mike Gray, Chris Onderick, and Erik Pepple revisit their nostalgia for shopping malls, debate the powers of market research, and dream of department store lock-ins.  

09 The James Spader Podcast -  Mannequin  7.31.15

This audio of NE Minneapolis was recorded on December 29, 2015 between 7:45 and 8:15 PM.  The neighborhood is pretty quiet, perhaps due to a snow earlier in the day.  There are two vantage points in the recording: the first with me closer to a vent and the second with me further away.  In addition to a couple cars, a plane or two, you can hear someone hammering on a house, a child, some dogs, and near the end of the track, rather excitingly, someone start a car and let it warm up for a minute-and-a-half before pulling away. 

NE Minneapolis, December 29, 2015

This audio of Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul was recorded on the afternoon of December 30, 2015. There are four locations. The first is by the Mississipi; the crackling sound is water lapping ice. The second spot is amid a circle/shit-ton of crows; some other birds attempt to join in near the end. The third and forth locations are, respectively, at the stream approaching the falls and then at the falls. The falls, it might be mentioned, appear to be the result of a drainage pipe. While Minnehaha Falls across the way is more parky-scenic-photograph-your-kids-by/in/etc., Hidden Falls is more St. Pauly-paul. 

Hidden Falls Regional Park, St. Paul, MN

Famouse The Mouse

This is a mid-side recording of a backyard in Minneapolis, MN from Mar 12, 2016.  In the track you can hear some birds, the neighbors talking, a truck pulling up in the alley, squirrels tromping in the leaves, and a couple flies whizz past the microphones near the end.  

Minneapolis - Backyard 3.12.16

This is a recording I made near pools 9 and 10 at Carlos Avery, a Minnesota WMA, on March 13, 2016. It was a pretty grey day overall, and there isn’t too much going on in the soundscape other than some wind and the occasional bird.

Carlos Avery, Pools 9 And 10 - March 13, 2016

Dorothy's Swamp

Sunday Dogs

Joan

This mid-side stereo recording was made approximately an hour before dawn in Northeast, Minneapolis on July 9th, 2016.  Other than instances such as bugs hitting the microphone blimp, there are few edits in the recording.  I did roll off at 60 Hz; on my system this has a slight effect on the train sounds, the first of which appears around minute 20, but I felt the cut was beneficial in getting rid of some other boominess of the air.  The train still sounds accurate in relation to where I was.

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