I've made collage audio forever, so this sort of project is easy for me.  The hard part is finding audio scraps that I haven't used, or used much.

In 2011, when I was living in Iowa City, I went downtown and made a bunch of field recordings.  A lot of that material ended up on my album Hide Yourself In Plain Sight.

One thing that didn't make the cut was me capturing a writer starting to read, and starting over, at Prairie Lights Bookstore.  He was reading something he wrote about Norbert Wiener and juxtaposing it with some Gwen Stefani reference, which to me is an excellent example of modern academic and literary nonsense, or I guess a "signal to noise".  

As that short clip in the track finished, I included two quick samples, panned left and right.  Left is a girl asking a bus driver a question, and Right is some drunk guy saying "Viggo Mortenstein" instead of Viggo Mortensen.

Also in there are some other loops, largely recorded from apps on the first generation iPad I had at the time.

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Norbert Wiener Signal Versus Noise (disquiet0621)

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