Here are some highlights from our April Listening Lounge

(Thanks to Tanya for taking notes)

We kicked off the night with introductions and each of us shared a sound we had heard recently that we might associate with a color or shape.

Tanya, a composer and musician heard and was ever-calmed by the sounds of falling rain. Tanya associates the sounds with being enclosed and secure, sheltered and cozy more than with a specific color.

Jocelyn, a podcast producer and media consultant heard recently the wind scurrying across the siding of the house and connected it with light pink more as an exploration of the ways that colors and descriptive language can evoke different impressions in sound (something she's been playing with in her writing and storytelling recently).

Sharon, a trained audio engineer, introduced us to a song that came to mind recently that was refreshing to her with its new sonic feel. Shanon felt that it expressed a little lavender or maybe more of a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes (possibly influenced by the video). 

Kesley- sound artist and teacher and heard wind chimes and associated that with the color blue (sort of calming and a little more fluid).

Henry- mixed media artist, amateur luthier, and multi-instrumentalist /composer, heard a chirping bird on a walk and two colors were on his mind that day: white blossoms and vibrant greens. The sounds were on a walk in Arlington VA.


Audio shared:
SHARON shared audio and video work by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQn_JMuASM
“In honor of Women's History month, “Minnie Lives”, produced and written by V.C.R, is an ode to women everywhere. Birthed from the growing pains of a physically and emotionally abusive relationship, this offering is a gift, a journey through the mind of a healing violinist. Named after her heroine Minnie Riperton, its storybook cinematic quality is sure to transport the listener into her own world of fantasy soul. Perfectly paired, the poet and ingenious rapper Pink Siifu ends the song with a foreshadowing of what’s to come. This is the just appetizer of her upcoming EP releasing this summer. Enjoy, and meals like this are best savored slowly.”
- Henry heard it to be trip-hoppy-ethereal (even as he pushed back against the genre language that he associates with record labels). Liked thinking of it as a tribute and a play on words.
- Tanya was delighted by the unexpectedness of the genre and enjoyed the surprises that came along with it. Tanya noted that it had really effective visuals to pull in the audience focus and tune in.
- Henry heard some backward tracking which added “a little bit of spice.”


HENRY shared an original multimedia piece  (with appreciation for poetry month)

• Sharon noticed the hawk imagery and lured Henry out to reveal that he is also a hobbyist photographer
• Tanya commented on this era of independent content creation and the various mediums that can be so expressive in this time. She found the work to be both intensely personal along with universal
• appreciating the homemade footage we can capture in this time of isolation, loss, meaning and the small universes we are all existing within.
• Jocelyn appreciated the line “your smile so far away” and the silence that followed especially in contrast to the visual illustrations that came before and after- that moment was a vivid sonic illustration of space. (Henry replied that he appreciated that noting that many of the musical masters he respects, from Debussy to Miles Davis, value and make use of space)
• Kelsey, mentioned that the work had her thinking about her students and what they are exploring and bringing together too. She referenced James Benning films and the camera pointing to the sky (for 2hours). (Henry: like Andy Warhol's Empire State Building)
• Conversation about Echkart Toll to wake up to this presence.

JOCELYN mixed up her previous run of water-themed recordings and instead tried playing out some spring sounds from another plane of listening – an active (water) bird fly-over.

• Sharon was surprised by how many different birds showed up
• Kelsey commented that the melodic birds were vary jarring with the sporadic honking of geese, and she enjoyed the interplay of elegance in bird song and then not with the geese.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: SOUND SCENE IS COMING JUNE 26+27. LIVE in DC AND Globally ONLINE. STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO.

KELSEY shared shared a Boschian Hellscape
She had been invited to do a remix of two stems from an artist. She manipulate the stems and layered in her own field recordings. She also created the visuals using footage from a motorcycle road trip with her Dad.  Henry noted that the theme of the evening had turned out to be "memory".

TANYA/TANTRONIQ shared the opening six minutes of music from the Inside of Time. Applying techniques she normally only uses on her own field recordings, she used a small swatch from a public domain industrial film soundtrack.

We chatted a bit about career paths in music and audio, how to foster collaboration with other artists, and how non-linear all these paths tend to turn out to be.
SHARON shared Imogen Heap's The Creative Passport which allows artists to put their work out there in a findable format for collaboration and hiring.
An interesting idea!

TANYA later found the link to a webinar on "Careers in Audio" she had seen a week or two before. It has a nice array of panelists who shared a lot of info about their careers. Definitely worth checking out.

Looking forward to listening with you in May!

After a lot of re-imagining to curate, revise and celebrate Sound Scene in the start of 2020 and a great interactive festival (online) in June... we finally returned to our beloved monthly listening sessions.  It was so wonderful to bring thoughtful ears together again- this time from the full DCLL diaspora thanks to the online format! Highlights below.

The night kicked off with a go-round of folks introducing themselves, where they were connecting from, and sharing one sound they enjoyed/noticed or found memorable over the past week.
Neal, based between: Arkansas and Takoma MD
interesting sound- skunks snuffling around

Nina- DC based, summer insects' sounds

Matthew- Denver, Colorado, last Friday a lone cicada

Genise- Fairfax, VA. Her 2 yr old nephew's joyful squeal

Jocelyn, Minneapolis, MN, Refreshed by her own shouting boldly into the remote wilderness

Shea, Montreal, Quebec, over the last couple of months- forgetting his headphones were on from working all day and then taking them off and that sound of reuniting with the sounds of the local micro-environment.

Jennifer Bethesda MD, was recently painting a mural and heard the summery sounds of young children playing and a nonsensical singsongy 10 min adventure

Ben, Annapolis MD has recently obsessed on little things like the quest for making clear ice cubes (through directional freezing) and has delighted in the sound of that perfect cube dropping into a leaded double old fashioned glass.

Henry, Arlington VA. Their regular haunt is a bench off near the Westover public library, where cars go up Washington Street and recently traffic and regular morning sounds were busted into by a helicopter overhead and that sound of the morning fading back up and dissipating the rest was memorable this week.

Mina, Toronto, Toronto sounds are unpleasant says Mina but biting into this Rye cracker <holds up> is a sensational delight-- the biting in and chewing of it!

Barry, Maryland. Relished the opportunity to overhear the rare sound of one tree becoming 2! Barry heard trees split during the recent storm, and it seemed to take almost 40 seconds for that split to happen... the sound of rending wood was unearthly almost.

Erin, in their mother's attic in Niagara Falls Canada, normally Philly based, Recently thought they heard rain and heard almost “sparks” but it was millions of bugs, not rain, but brown flies with longer wings hitting the windows and roof.

Ted, DC area. Recently thinking fondly on the sound from X-Files, that chirpy tinkling sounds that came up as alien noises, and recently moving groceries, putting rubber bands on eggs- realized it would/could sample very similarly!

Brandon, DC (plus the company of a Zoom backdrop of active goats). The sounds of dusk, katydids, and car breaks

Virginia, NYC. Feels ears sharpening during the pandemic... heard in a park in the distance drumming and clapping and bike bells, and discovered a march was coming through, in honor of John Lewis, with speeches all moving across the bridge. Immediately after riding her bike home, started pouring and sheltered under the metal roof. She was appreciating the quick combo of human, constructed and natural world in NYC.

Sam, Raleigh NC heard mewing and rustling in the leaves, two deer walked right up!

Ian, Boston based but joining currently from Pittsburg. Night in the Woods video game, story game with no dialogue, is all sound track driven and Ian was appreciating how it established everything from eerie to serene with a humming transforming into distortion, making it grow with your experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6f9llfs0w

AND WE LISTENED TOGETHER:
Jennifer shared audio from WVA, biking / paddling near the Green Briar River trail. About an 80 mile journey -barred owls and chickens in the early morning hours

Henry- balalaika and electric alto and chalumeau https://youtu.be/mAPxRd6k4e0

Barry- A forest winds stereo mix https://soundcloud.com/hovercraft-dc/forest-winds

Break for Announcements:
Erin: airmedia.org/jobs
, great webinars almost 2 per week. You can email for more info: erin@airmedia.org, or visit airmedia.org/jobs to sign up for free webinar trainings or virtual hangouts. They have a new 'opportunities board,' an archive of Freelancer Tools, brand new AIR community forums for connecting with other members and the Talent Directory for finding - or showcasing - your talent.

Genise: Fairfax Public Access is open again! My first broadcast is Thursday (Aug 20) at 7 PM, World Reggae Party!! Goddess Genise DJ'ing


Denee:
An event/ music performance (voice and instrumental) at the Joseph Isaacs Music Matters Showcase Zoomcase email jcisaacs@gmail.com for more info about future events! folk, rock, blues, jazz, etc. 3 set of musicians take turns in the Zoom


Barry:
Playing in a streaming electronic music show with the theme of water this Sat Aug 22 at Noon ET. Artists from us and Europe https://www.twitch.tv/lines_community


Ben:
Suggested listening: David Weinberg, podcast called Welcome to LA, relaying the story of being in a Tesla.


BACK TO AUDIO
Nina:  In her first podcast production foray she's learning to love making all the mistakes and learning as you go. The first mistake: 3 hr taping for a 1 hr episode. Second lesson, self awareness of talking in paragraphs and learning to shorten/break it up.
- Looking for feedback to have this chopped up and if in talky podcasts listeners want more going on behind the sounds of the voices.
Podcast about queer readings of apocalyptic video game
Queers at the End of the World


Jocelyn and Matthew shared a clip from Lemonada's newly released pod series: The Untold Story: Policing

Neal – digging spectrograms from Cornel Ornithology Lab and being able to combine ears and sight to identify sounds of birds and identify them,
Has been using Audio Moth w/ 3 AA batteries will record for 35 hrs. in a waterproof case to record dawn chorus and evening bugs/bats
https://www.openacousticdevices.info
A discussion followed about how silence shapes the music around it, with references to Claude Debussy and Miles Davis – music is what happens between the notes


Henry:
Olivier Messiaen https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olivier-Messiaen- would notate the bird songs, and wrote a quartet for the end of time

shout outs to the sounds of :
stylus on a twig
- radio expeditions sonic discoveries
millipedes mating in Shenandoah


Brandon- shared poetry of Folger Shakespeare Theater
https://soundcloud.com/folgershakespearelibrary/sets/not-just-another-day-off-2019
it is not light that is needed but fire, we need the earthquake, the conscience of the nation roused.  Words of the founders and testimonies of the movement.


The next DC Listening Lounge (again via Zoom) will be <drum roll>
Wed. Sept 30th, 7:30pm ET.

SEPT AUDIO CHALLENGE: Press record: ask someone about their first best friend (could be a telemarketer, campaign worker or other socially distanced stranger!) and bring that audio (clips or edited to be under 6 mins) to the September Listening Lounge!

Hey audio pals,

- For everyone going to Third Coast- have a safe trip! For everyone not going to Third Coast- have a great weekend too!

- Planning an audio-specific costume for Halloween this year? See one in the streets? Tag it #soundscenedc

- We are looking for a friendly host for the November Listening Lounge- it could be you! No prior experience needed.

- Highlights from our October lounge below (and some fun announcements if you read to the end)!Thanks to Lizzie for hosting the October Listening Lounge. It was so fun! She can tell you about it. You should try it! (oh, by the way yes, we are looking for November and December hosts- it could be you! Click the CONTACT tab on this website if you'd like to host).

Oct Lounge Highlights for real this time...
We started the night off with stories of lost tape or lost data or things we thought we lost but didn't but then sort of did...
Rene shared the story of managing 24 hours of tape and thinking he lost a lot of it but realizing that he didn't but then realizing later that he actually did lose some small bit of something (his sanity?)

Lizzie shared the tale of a lost passport which was really missing (not lost) and then she realized that the prompt might have been audio-specific so she shared a story of deciding to interview someone about a relationship ending, at a time when things were still raw, and that she felt like it was quite painful and then when both she and the subject made it through the whole thing she realized she had not been recording (#standbymode).

Joey talked about the epic crashes of Audacity just when he was about to be done with a podcast episode. He also mentioned that he worked on a pod targeted at people selling their wedding and engagement rings after divorce (who knew!?). The podcast is called: “Divorce and Other Things You Can Handle.”

And Jocelyn made a guest appearance! (in DC for a quick visit/work trip) but she can't remember what she talked about as she writes up these notes! So that's meta...

Sonic highlights from the night:
Rene shared audio from a skate park short doc-in-progress including the producer “dropping in” - did he keep “rolling?” (yes that was an audio pun/joke...and also a question we asked him.)

Joey shared audio from his KCRW Radio Race submission- the story was motivated by a family trying to say thank you to a person who helped save a life and ultimately connected estranged siblings.

This lead to a conversation about audio mapping and then later over the course of the evening a few delightful expressions were brought out such as, “Which alligator is closest to the boat?” and “...with faces newer than their hands.” (yes, I know what you're thinking: you should definitely attend the Listening Lounge in November)

Lizzie shared audio recorded from a pink bolder beach in France. It featured “small and clackety” sounds from a grotto-esque cave near the water and rocks- also...there were bees.

Jocelyn shared a recording made surreptitiously in a small tea shop where a classy tea aficionado spoke with the abrupt tone of (a former New Yorker) someone who can't be bothered with people asking to smell the teas.

That lead to a conversation at the Listening Lounge about how and when to ask for permission to record (before, during, after, all three?) and tales of correcting those choices when they are made in the wrong order.
Then we all had a robust brainstorming session about all the things a creative audio collective can offer up at a silent auction and if an audio group can even create a silent auction without sacrificing a sense of group identity (a la “if a tree falls in the forest...”). It was really fun to brainstorm and we're thinking of organizing some events ahead of Sound Scene 2020 (June 27-28th, 2020) to raise money (like an auction) build hype (like a mini sound scene), raise money (like a fancy party we invite rich people to attend) and to get more organizations and individuals involved (a strategic mingle?)! Click the CONTACT tab on this site to get in on the planning!

Also, we're going to announce the Sound Scene theme in November and publish a CALL FOR WORK!

So get your sonic thinking caps on and start considering what kind of interactive audio art work you might want to produce, perform or teach in a small group workshop! Stay tuned
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Special Thanks to Teaism for being a Sound Scene 2019 Supporter!

You can support us too! Email dclisteninglounge@gmail.com to learn more.

​Hey Listening Loungers,

We had a great time listening together in September. We're looking forward (listening forward?) to October's gathering.

You should host!

It doesn't take more than a living room to host.

Please contact us via our website contact form if you're interested in hosting this month's Listening Lounge or next month's!

Here are some highlights from the September Listening Lounge!
Thanks to Zach for hosting and Rene for taking notes to share.

9/19 DCLL Zach’s House
As we mingled before the introductions, we discussed Sound Scene. Rene mentioned that he didn’t like the idea of DIY wind-chimes when he first heard about it—he thinks wind-chimes sound lonely—but after working with them at the table it is one of his favorite aspects of Sound Scene.
Ice breaker: A lonely sound.
Rene: Wind-chimes. About three years at DCLL
Roger: A barking dog.  Second DCLL
Zach: When his family’s African Gray Parrot is alone it will start making garbled sounds that are like a person talking. Also, the parrot loves wind-chimes.
Amy: A snowplow on a quiet snow day. Five years at DCLL.
Liz: The silence after a slamming door. Whether someone leaves in anger, or everyone leaves in excitement and the door slams. First DCLL.
Listening:
Rene is preparing to spend four days field recording. Instead of sharing a recorded piece he asked the group for input on the story idea. He will be recording his uncle and friends as they skateboard to raise money for Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is concerned that there is no inherent tension to the story. The group had several good suggestions.
Sports stories often follow a simple chronological arc: lead-up, event, reflection.
Pre-interview participants. Stay general.
There may be a shift in the tone as the participants get tired
Get someone describing what someone else is doing.
If you can figure out the ending, you can build a structure from it. Among other things, an ending should be surprising, inevitable, and the resolution of tension.
Liz shared three minutes of an interview about exhuming then disposing of a decaying elephant. Memorable quote, “It started out great!”.
Zach Shared a Midi arrangement he created from a clarinet quintet he found on vinyl when he was in school.
Amy shared a mystery clip. It turns out that her new upstairs neighbors have very heavy footsteps.
Discussion turned to other sounds of row-house living. Particularly rats in walls.
Rene played an excerpt from a conversation about a POW camp during WWII. This is the second selection he’s shared from a conversation with fellow DCLL member Bohdan. 

Reminder- tomorrow!
Are you ready for some community listening?

Please join in for the July Listening Lounge- a cozy living room, listening gathering at Aditi's place!


Please bring food, drinks, friends and audio to share (limit audio clips of any style to under 6 minutes).


Details:
Thursday July 25th, 7:30pm

Address - (email for details) it's a house, ringing the doorbell is fine!
Questions? Aditi's Phone -(email for details)
Public Transit Tips: Columbia Heights Metro is closest

Buses: 42/43 + S1/S2 (16th st) exit near Park Road

**Please note there is a dog that lives there- so if you're allergic, plan accordingly. If you are a fan, get ready for the good stuff!

Happy summer everyone.
Sound Scene was a tremendous success! Thank you to everyone who volunteered, exhibited interactive audio art, performed live, led a workshop and told a friend! One week ago, nearly 14,000 people attended Sound Scene 2019: Amplify! What a privilege it was to help raise the volume on stories less often heard and help audiences explore and delight in audio art of all varieties.

A giant thank you to our sponsors and of course the incredibly generous and wonderful support of Amy Bower and the staff and contractors of the Smithsonian Hirshhorn. 

And it’s not just the numbers that shine- it’s the engagement — the smiles, laughter, pointing, playing, exploring and listening. It was a tremendously gratifying weekend. Thanks to all of DCLL for bringing so much sonic creativity into the spotlight and celebrating DC as a magnetic center for it all.

If you, or anyone you know, might be interested in helping to sponsor Sound Scene in the future (or any of our other interactive events, sonic workshops, audio fields trips or operations) please contact us here.

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And now onward:
Looking forward to gathering for our (smaller, cozy) monthly living room-based listening sessions. Would you like to host a “listening lounge” in July and/or August? Please contact us here.
All you need is a living room or patio. Can’t wait!

Join us June 13th for the next "Listening Lounge!"

Thursday June 13
7:30pm
Please bring any combination of food and drinks and friends to share. Also, if you'd like to share some audio that you've made, or found or heard, please do! Think: radio, podcasting, found sound, music, ambiance, oral history, sound design, field recording, family stories, testimonials, games etc...(Please limit audio clips to under 6 minutes)

Email DCListeningLounge at gmail for details.

We gathered at Rene and Kate’s place in Mt. Ranier, MD.

Introductions
The prompt was (1) a particularly good or memorable sound from a vacation or trip, and (2) a personal audio goal.

Rene
1) A steam train on a recent trip to Savannah, which had lots of great sounds including its whistle and a loud turntable, which blew out the levels on the recording he made.
2) Rene's audio goal is for Clyde (their dog) to bark a bit less.

Sarah
1) From a trip to the Smoky Mountains, the sound of an active mill—water turning the wheel, the millstones grinding.
2) Sarah is working on a mixtape, and wants to learn a bit more about audio so she can try some new techniques.

Teague
1) A piano rehearsal heard behind a big wooden door in an atmospheric Oxford quad.
2) It has been a while since Teague has made an edited audio piece, and he would like to make one soon.

Bond
1) Hearing Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” while walking through a London Christmas display, and thinking about how cultural associations with songs differ even though the song remains the same.
2) Bond’s goal, in his job working in satellite radio, is to help people discover music that is meaningful to them and preserve older music in people’s lives.

Ann
1) The whispering corners at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. They allow two people speaking softly to hear each other across a room, and she was surprised they worked as well as they did.
2) Ann’s goal is to take on a personal audio project, outside the podcast production she does at work.

Kate
1) Hearing waves lap at the side of a boat at the dock on the Mississippi, when she was growing up in Iowa.
2) Kate’s audio goal is that Rene and Clyde (again, their dog) achieve their respective audio goals.

Listening
Bond played a song by the band AJR called “Don’t Throw Out My Legos,” about the emotional challenges of moving on to different life stages, which is particularly meaningful to him at the moment because he is considering whether to accept an offer to move to LA for work. We talked about some unique aspects of the track’s production, including its contrast between straightforward singing in the verses and complex layered production in the chorus.

Teague played a few clips of ambient street noise from Istanbul. We talked about the ability of sound to evoke the feeling of a place, and how the iPhone provides pretty reasonable recording quality.

Ann, in response to the Istanbul sounds, played audio (from a news clip) of a recent spontaneous protest in Istanbul. The protest, in which people leaned out their windows across the city banging on pans or other objects, was in response to the President Erdogan’s nullification of municipal elections. We discussed how the sound was somewhat otherworldly, and we would not have necessarily been able to discern was was making it without having been told.

Sarah shared a track she recently made, “Pokey Hokey.” While she has been making music for a while, this was the first one that she mixed entirely by herself. She said she is trying to work sounds into her tracks, in the style of of trap music, and we discussed the ones she had included in this song.

Rene shared a first edit of an oral history interview he did with fellow DCLL member Bohdan, and asked for feedback. We discussed ways to make parts of the narrative fit together, and agreed that even the first cut gave a really compelling story. We also discussed the pros and cons of adding narration.

The April Listening Lounge is coming up: April 8th @ Austin's place. Click the contact tab to request details.


Here are highlights from the March Listening Lounge.

Courtesy of Ellen (host and note-taker)

MARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
Events that are coming up that we discussed:
Jocelyn was back in town speaking at the Hirshhorn:
March 26, 4-5pm: “The Art of Audio: A How-To Guide for Listening” Thanks to everyone who attended (or encouraged a friend to attend)!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2365467720365835/

Errant Movement, one of the local groups that performed at 2018 Sound Scene, has a full-length show coming up at the Anacostia Arts Center. 
April 6: Performances at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2665719576788231/ 

The night started with an Ice breaker: Favorite podcast that you are listening to right now

Rene had two podcasts that he mentioned:
1.  Out of the Box with Paul Shugrue: Profiles of music artists and specific albums/songs
https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/outofthebox

2. The Wolf Den: a podcast about the business of podcasts
https://www.earwolf.com/show/wolf-den/

Mina mentioned one called Cantata Profana, which features a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cp-podcast/id1215331662?mt=2

Ellen has been listening to a podcast called Nutrition Facts that is hosted by a doctor who is a character; each episode delves into a particular aspect of the latest research on nutritional science.
https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/

Ben has been listening to Heavyweight, a podcast about the moments in life when everything changed
https://www.gimletmedia.com/heavyweight

Bond shared his love for a comedy podcast called Your Favorite Band Sucks, in which two hosts take on any and every beloved and revered band and explain why they aren’t that special.
https://www.yfbspod.com/

Audio that we listened to:

Bond shared a clip from an episode of “Your Favorite Band Sucks” that took on the Beatles. 
The podcast provoked a discussion about the charisma between the two hosts; the dynamic of two people who really get along and can keep the conversation engaging and light. They also had a contrarian take on all music, taking on every sacred cow; we discussed how contrarianism in podcasts can be a hook for some listeners and a turn off for others. 

Rene shared the final version of a piece called “Boogie Shoes” that he co-produced with a friend he met at a CDS workshop. Rene did the editing while his friend had collected the audio from people living in Ashboro. Rene had shared an earlier draft of this piece at a previous DCLL meeting. It featured an interview with a mother whose son had died from a drug overdose. We discussed the challenges of editing audio that you didn’t record and how that influences the shaping of the story. We also discussed whether or not the story needed additional narration beyond the interview tape. And we discussed the use of silence throughout the piece and how Rene used music in a specific moment towards the end of the piece.

Mina shared a Kate Bush song that is called “Get Out of My House.” It prompted a discussion about the production and recording in locations other than music studios and how the rawness or scenic qualities of recorded sound in real locations can add to the sonic quality of a recording. 

Ben shared some audio that he recorded based on the prompt from February’s DCLL meeting which was: “Pay tribute to your favorite musician or band.” It was a recording that he made on his iPhone at a house concert in New Orleans, featuring singer Aurora Nealand and pianist Tom McDermott who performed an arrangement of a Hank Williams song. We talked about the history of NOLA piano players, many of whom are dead though some are carrying on the tradition.

RECORDING CHALLENGE/PROMPT for April: Anything that happens in your day before you get to work — record your morning routine, your commute, anything before you are starting your job.


Looking forward to listening with you soon,

DCLL

DCLL Highlights Courtesy of Austin
2/7/2019



Present: Bishop, Bond, Ben, Austin, Elias, and Dev


Bond set the tone by playing the new Vampire Weekend “Harmony Hall”


Kicking things off around 805pm


Dev played an Emily Rio song


ICE BREAKER - Favorite cooking show?


Bond – Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown


Bishop – Great British Baking Show


Ben – Splendid Table on public radio


Elias – Nigela Lawson


Dev – Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat


Austin – Ugly Delicious




Bond – Went to new york and met up with cousin bruce - top 40s / 60s radio, huge icon in the radio world. Like 84 years old now, still goin strong. Gave a tribute to the day the music died, felt like it was in real time. All of his shows are recorded, so Bond made this sequence with some extracted some clips.


Bishop – Lived in NY for ~10 years. So much sound and energy all the time; walking in the street, gonna get hit by it. This is a sound none of us can hear that has been modulated to be within our range. Featured in NYT magazine that did a series with GE where they found sounds in interesting places. (Turned out to be the sound of rats communicating)


Ben – Using voice memo to capture sound. “Note 106” and “107” struck him; he played one and was interested in the interplay between the two. 2nd clip was in Lafayette Louisiana in a chapel in a village that they had built; 1st sound was a windshield wiper on a rainy day that he pulled over to record, at its perfect tone


Elias – Early sampling keyboard that had a loon sample – the emulator 2. 808 state by pacific state is the track he is playing to feature the loon sample. First sample no warble, second sample confirmed the song DEFINITELY has loon warbles. Sueno latino was another track that featured the loon sample.


Austin – Shared a track “Fool for the Flame” by Viking Moses and upcoming Big Miz track (out soon). Thanked everyone for coming to his apartment, and hopes that Viking Moses (aka Brendon) will join DCLL in the future.


Dev – “Creepy kid sound edits” overlaid with royalty free samples. Neighbor’s kid Clara has the most evil laugh, featured in this sound byte. Prevented a woman at the exhibit from using the bathroom with all the hanging zombie babies. Using Hindenberg + kid sounds




DCLL Recommends:
--Transam.org is a great resource for all cool stuff for people that are interest in audio, even if it’s not production or a profession. Equipment, recording, etc advice.


--Thirdcoast is an annual conference in Chicago where indie producers go to attend workshops over the course of a weekend. Overloaded with opportunities to attend workshops and give awards to best doc from previous year, in different categories.Great opportunity for people to get a lot of advice – open to all levels.


--Pop-up magazine stage show – Ben has 2 free tickets and the show is sold out.


--Bond spoke to Sirius XM HR department and they do allow tours of outside companies / groups. Totally open for us to take a field trip to check out the facilities; need to let them know ahead of time and give them a list of names so we can set a date. Bond suggests further into the spring or early summer. Looking to start a list of names for interested people so we can submit. AWESOME!


Audio assignments – put a hat, put ideas in it, and for next month’s meeting do x y or z. Forces us to engage with nature and collect something on our own. Ben suggested this and Austin passed around his hat with bits of paper so everyone could leave with a prompt to think / act on