tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58319636539098022024-03-05T16:03:09.579+03:00MomentumNat GrantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger445125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-47820614236599153892023-07-02T02:11:00.002+03:002023-07-02T02:12:44.273+03:00Momentum: Deutsche<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwJo8mDcP28u3dQCwZrVcEG-vIhpqzyNA0Sns-sYvlww3VqFMIeUMMzDzDPrEsdRQQfsEWIpbOjx8Xghr1-8aA3VaK6t5w0UgWUybNGk8JftsFK0LO3GPVZmpxwJycrPgDCoExSs0Bs3b4hUvDK6VdM1jr0n1oK2JP5Nu0cyhptgNnO3Wy1dnZXgS7w/s3024/Deutsche%2067.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnwJo8mDcP28u3dQCwZrVcEG-vIhpqzyNA0Sns-sYvlww3VqFMIeUMMzDzDPrEsdRQQfsEWIpbOjx8Xghr1-8aA3VaK6t5w0UgWUybNGk8JftsFK0LO3GPVZmpxwJycrPgDCoExSs0Bs3b4hUvDK6VdM1jr0n1oK2JP5Nu0cyhptgNnO3Wy1dnZXgS7w/w400-h400/Deutsche%2067.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><p></p>This work is the latest in a 10 year long exploration of daily life and travel through sonic journaling. Momentum: Deutsche was created during two weeks in Recklinghausen and Berlin in May and June 2023 and features many layers of field recordings, digitally altered and collaged. <br /><br />Momentum: Deutsche was created and compiled in a different way to the previous versions of this project. One recording was made each day but I loosened the rules of construction for myself, allowing all the pieces to be put together in a non linear fashion. For example, the birds from the beginning of the track also find their way into the end. It wasn't feasible for me to create a stand alone track each day of my trip, so the full version is the only one, and serves as a snapshot rather than a strict sonic timeline of my journey.<div><br /></div><div>Listen <a href="https://natgrantmusic.bandcamp.com/album/momentum-deutsche" target="_blank">here</a>. </div><div> <div><span face=""Atkinson Hyperlegible", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span>
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The 28 daily recordings will be remixed into one sound art work which will be available on <a href="http://natgrantmusic.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">bandcamp</a> shortly, and will be exhibited in Melbourne later in 2019.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I couldn't really come to Mexico and not explore even a little bit of percussion. The last track is a bit more me than Chapala, I guess: maracas and a monkey drum keyring I bought at the market.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Eight: Maracas and tiny monkey drum from the lakeside market in Chapala. Digital delays, granular delays, and a little vocoder on the drum (pitched down).</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-54035208476110220662019-01-13T06:13:00.000+03:002019-01-13T06:13:09.315+03:00Chapala: Twenty Seven<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I'm nearly at the end of the residency and my time here. I've put off filling my bags with percussion instruments I don't necessarily need, but caved and bought maracas today (they're beautiful and they sound great).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Seven: Agua (water) truck in streets of Chapala. Maracas (3 samples) with multiple digital delays, one pitched down.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-9429218625306250592019-01-12T03:38:00.001+03:002019-01-12T03:38:12.424+03:00Chapala: Twenty Six<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I finally got a recording of the agua (water) truck - and gratuitous tourist shot by the lake. Plus bottle percussion from yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Six: Empty kombucha bottles played with a spoon (4 samples: two with digital delay, two pitched down - one reversed), agua (water) truck in streets of Chapala.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-39539657025299265462019-01-10T22:52:00.002+03:002019-01-10T22:52:50.204+03:00Chapala: Twenty Five<br />
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The previous guest in the casita where I'm staying now left some empty kombucha bottles for recycling, which I temporary liberated and played with a teaspoon handle today (I think I'm missing playing the drums...).<br />
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Part Twenty Five: Barking dogs and empty kombucha bottles played with a spoon (3 samples: two with digital delay, one pitched down and reversed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-6517114314206384852019-01-09T22:47:00.003+03:002019-01-09T22:50:21.165+03:00Chapala: Twenty Four<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I had a weird early sleep after visiting the thermal spa in the mountains yesterday, and found myself wide awake at 2am. I went up on the roof and it was the first time since I've been here that there was no traffic, only neighbourhood dogs talking (perhaps) to each other. Plus birds from yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Four: Birds by the lake at sunset (with a little digital delay). Neighbourhood dogs at 2am (the only time with no traffic). Photo of discarded cassette tapes in the street not related - but I did grab some old mix tapes, maybe for another project when I get home.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-72238251440254550642019-01-09T05:07:00.002+03:002019-01-09T05:07:57.319+03:00Chapala: Twenty Three<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The start and end of a pretty glorious day. The super loud and intense exercise class (which I'm used to hearing - I won't be going along though...) and birds by the lake chirping away as the sun sets. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Three: Early morning exercise class (with digital delay), birds saying their last things at sunset.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-59771749911144312782019-01-08T01:02:00.000+03:002019-01-08T04:19:54.636+03:00Chapala: Twenty Two<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Día de Los Reyes holiday is the last in the religious/Christmas season here, so I thought the hardcore dance music and shouting I heart when I woke up this morning was the tail end of an all night party. Turns out it was a very hardcore sounding exercise class, which I only figured out when it was repeated later in the day...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty Two: Gas truck and Monday morning exercise class that I mistook for the tail end of an all night dance party in Chapala. (artwork not really related - some street art I snapped last week).</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">If you need gas or water for your house/business you need to run out into the street when you hear the trucks go past. I managed to grab a photo of the water truck and a recording of the gas truck. Working on the inverse...</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Twenty One: Fountain between Chapala and Riberas, some pitched down, moving the mic closer to the source of the water. Gas truck in Chapala.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-64706498952447607082019-01-06T07:32:00.002+03:002019-01-06T07:33:43.632+03:00Chapala: Twenty<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I've been eyeing this fountain for awhile and was able to hop in it with the hydrophones finally. Towards the end of the track you can hear me getting closer to where the water in bubbling out of - it sounds a lot more aggressive and there's more contact sound - water on water.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">More squeaky door with seedpod percussion. I waited nearly three weeks to manifest one of these big ones so I didn't have to pull it off the tree, or record it on the tree and look like a goose shaking it all about </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Nineteen: squeaky door pitched down and duplicated with ring modulator a little delay. Large seed pod, doubled and pitched down.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-81973162587235534662019-01-04T02:12:00.002+03:002019-01-04T22:28:38.216+03:00Chapala: Eighteen<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The door of my casita has an amazing squeak, which I pitch shifted/squished into a sound that's part beginner trumpeter part letting air out of a balloon... Plus sprinkler from yesterday.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Eighteen: Layers of sprinkler between Chapala and Riberas, with traffic somewhat EQ'd out. Squeaky door repeated and pitched down.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-55766085905991164232019-01-03T00:56:00.002+03:002019-01-04T22:28:46.862+03:00Chapala: Seventeen<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Walking between Chapala and Riberos (about 3.5kms) I stopped to record a sprinkler in someone's garden. Of course there were no cars until I pressed record, but you can still make out the ch-ch-ch of the sprinkler in some parts. Plus new years eve shenanigans.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part seventeen: New Years eve speeches, band, and fireworks by the pier in Lago de Chapala. Sprinkler between Chapala and Riberas, with traffic.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-35850600742057557822019-01-02T03:00:00.001+03:002019-01-02T03:00:18.927+03:00Chapala: Sixteen<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adding to the tap tapping of the solar box... New Years celebrations by the lake at midnight: excited speeches, excited punters, live band, and fireworks. People bring their whole families, barbeques, settle in for the night and dance. I got excited because I got most of the numbers right counting down from ten in Spanish.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Sixteen: morse code-like solar energy machine. New Years eve speeches, band, and fireworks by the pier in Lago de Chapala. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-81263402509224991502018-12-31T22:42:00.001+03:002018-12-31T22:42:21.927+03:00Chapala: Fifteen<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The little solar energy box (I think that's what it is) in the casita where I'm staying goes off unexpectedly like its receiving a telegram in morse code, and gave me a huge fright the first time it happened. Plus the plant watering truck and street sweeping human from yesterday. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Fifteen: Plant watering + truck, Street sweeping with changing tremolo, solar energy machine repeated and pitched down with digital delay.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-23209788432562198662018-12-31T02:26:00.000+03:002018-12-31T02:26:01.368+03:00Chapala: Fourteen<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the relative quiet of the morning here (not counting the roosters) there are daily routines that occur - first a slow moving truck with someone on the back, watering the plants in the middle of the road. After that someone with a broom, clearing the street from fallen leaves. And roosters, always roosters...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Fourteen: Tennis playing with gradually increasing tremolo. Early morning plant watering, repeated then pitched down. Street sweeper (person not machine/truck).</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-52066022286634129052018-12-30T03:24:00.001+03:002018-12-30T03:24:12.741+03:00Chapala: Thirteen<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">More of the restaurant stereos from yesterday (doubled, with delays) - getting the effect of walking between them and getting a live mix of the various pop musics. Plus a common sound in my neighbourhood - the tennis sound that's so familiar to lots of people - I used a parametric EQ to take out everything but the few bands where the tennis ball really 'pops'.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Part Thirteen: Layers of lakeside restaurant stereos, with heavily EQ'd tennis playing. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-53029905393274348342018-12-29T04:42:00.001+03:002018-12-29T04:44:29.880+03:00Chapala: Twelve<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I went back to the Parque de la Cristiana with the hydrophones and hung them over the stone wall. The water is fairly calm here, though I did find a bubbly spot where water spurts out from a gap in the stones. Plus white noise machine from yesterday (interesting the juxtaposition of real and 'fake' water sounds).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Eleven: Two layers of white noise machine with digital delays. Three separate hydrophone recordings from inside Lake Chapala, at the Parque de la Cristiana.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-64874422496329660872018-12-27T01:56:00.001+03:002018-12-27T01:56:19.862+03:00Chapala: Ten<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I made a recording early (for me) in the morning because it felt so quiet. I could have sworn it was just birds, but on listening back there's traffic and roosters and people noises, just much less than later in the day. So I set about trying all the settings on the white noise machine in the casita: thunder, ocean, brook, summer night, rain, white noise. I'll see if it helps me sleep tonight. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Part Ten: Horses in the street in Chapala (with little digital delay), washing machine (it plays a song at the end), white noise machine.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-86383199245524640352018-12-26T04:42:00.001+03:002018-12-26T04:42:11.590+03:00Chapala: Nine<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fountains in Guadalajara with tremolo from yesterday. There are pretty constant horses up and down the street here in Chapala. Took awhile for me to get everything together to be able to run out and record. Plus the inevitable washing machine and the nice little song it plays to tell you its finished. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Nine: Fountain in Guadalajara, horses and washing machine in Chapala.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Guadalajaran church bells from yesterday with an unintentionally groovy series of digital delays. Then I sat by the fountain out the front of the Cultural Institute Cabañas and recorded, also unintentionally capturing the sounds of kids playing around the water and doing some kind of dance that they all seemed to know (I feel a bit old). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Eight: Church bells with many delays. Samples of fountain pitched down with two different speed tremolo/vibrato effects.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-52786701278653027162018-12-24T01:37:00.000+03:002018-12-26T04:43:24.029+03:00Chapala: Seven<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hopped on the bus for an hour up to Guadalajara, the second biggest city in Mexico - all the traffic and people quite a shock after a week in such a quiet town. There's a church near the art gallery (my destination) that has a revolving show of religious icons like a cuckoo clock except more reverent, with bells playing on the hour. I also recorded some church bells on the other (east) side of town as the sun was setting. You can hear the loudspeaker or the track being turned on and off as the different recordings of bells/different pitches are played. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Seven: Skateboards, squeaky swings and people milling by the lake. Two different sets of church bells in Guadalara (the first played at pitch, the second repeated with a ping pond delay and pitched down).</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5831963653909802.post-79606652156103123232018-12-23T02:55:00.001+03:002018-12-26T04:43:34.665+03:00Chapala: Six<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lush layers of underwater recordings start this one, then adding in the unmistakable sounds of kids on skateboards, and the gentle continuous rhythm of a metal swing set. Down by the lake (and all over Chapala) are brightly coloured swing sets, seesaws, and other play equipment. Not new but fully functional and great sounding for my purp<span style="background-color: white;">oses. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Part Six: Layers of hydrophone recordings (with digital delay and small amount of vocoder/phaser) from under the water at the pier in Lake Chapala, kids skateboarding at night, people chatting and laughing, cell phones going off, water lapping in the background, metal swings squeaking.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0