Hi all,
Apologies for the short notice, but hopefully at least a few of you will
be able to take me up on this...
Interested in sharing your enthusiasm for recordings on the air?
Next Saturday (May 18) I'm co-hosting a program on a local (south San
Francisco Bay) radio station, KFJC, for four hours on field recordings and
the people who make them. The show's a special to be called 'the quiet
americans'... (nice, but I didn't name it!)
The emphasis is on people who work with recordings in non-traditional,
non-research ways, e.g. as source material for their artwork -- but that's
not a requirement per se to participate in this part.
What I'm looking for is your recorded monolog, consisting of
(a) you speaking briefly (no more than 2-3 minutes) about why you
record -- how did you get interested in field recordings?
Was it a particular thing you heard, or gradual? Academic?
(b) you discussing a favorite recording you've made (for a minute or
two)
and finally, as a seperate track,
(c) that recording, or an excerpt (1-10 minutes, best ~3 minutes).
(A fine way to begin would be by giving your name, age, location,
profession, etc. then launching right into whatever you would say to a
curious but not deeply knowledgable old friend, about your interest.)
I'm not interested in professional-sounding voice recording, btw -- any
old microphone and delivery will do, we will compress things up at
broadcast time anyway -- just try to avoid noise if possible.
If anyone has time and inclination to do this -- again, I know this is
really short notice -- please write me back! Mailed CDs would be best of
course, but since time is so short, emailed high-quality MP3s would be
fine too!
Alternately, if you want to just WRITE up a description of the above and
send me a favorite recording, we may be able to use that, too -- the show
is fairly loose at this point.
Also:
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I'm also interested in any sharing longer or specific field recordings,
and compositions there-from, -- I'm going to be playing as many people's
work as I can!
Best regards, and again, sorry for the short notice,
aaron
aaron ximm / quiet american
964 natoma
san francisco, ca 94103
http://www.quietamerican.org
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