40+ MPH wind gusts passing through a metal chair and recorded with a curiously strong custom mic.
crank it up
Crossing Borders --- built from field recordings made that day others I’d been collecting within the Sonoran Desert.
This is an excerpt from the greater work expected to be released as a cd later in 2012.
So I was recording birds today when....
4/13/2012 - DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- A sonic boom was reported at around 2:45 p.m. today during the Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona 2012 Open House practice. After further investigation it was determined that one of the demonstrations did break the sound barrier causing a sonic boom.
It is uncommon for aircraft to break the sound barrier during a performance and is restricted over populated areas.
Anyone wishing to make a claim due to property damage, please contact the 355th Fighter Wing Claims office at 520-954-0146 or the 355th Fighter Wing Public Affairs office at 520-228-3406. Claims representatives will be sent to assess damage at your convenience. For more information on how to file a claim, please visit the D-M website at www.dm.af.mil.
A field recording of Tucson at night on 11/08/11....
A studio manipulated sounding of tracks preformed on 4/1/11 by a contingent of visiting Flagstaff artists utilizing the Nogales Wall (northern side), voice and found sound.
Someone shooting a gun while I was shooting the shit with a viola. A low recording so you'll want to turn it up...
TO THE SEA WE SHALL GO is a work composed for radio waves, water and viola recorded in one take.
Free improvisation for violin and piano composed by Kestrel (violin) and Glenn (piano) Weyant. Recorded during crazy storms and blue skies.
Phone conversation with FOIA Division Director Dorothy Pullo re: a June 2010 request for all files (sound/word/video) concerning myself/ The Anta Project.
For the full story...CLICK HERE
Phone conversation with FOIA Analyst for Customs and Border Protection Patrick Howard. re: a June 2010 request for all files (sound/word/video) concerning myself/ The Anta Project.
For the full story... CLICK HERE
New work for door squeak composed in real time by Glenn Weyant, Tucson Arizona. Note door instrument changes with the weather. Rare periods of moisture, such as during the monsoon, create wonderful sonic possibilities.
monsoons tease. planes pass cicadas drone. dogs roam. wind blows. birds do what birds do. on the fly, eye, improvise. recorded in one take. 07/02/10. two sun, arid zone : a
An improvised "in-motion" work for violin, viola, dogs (coughing and barking), birds, planes, performed/recorded in one take as the sun went down and the moon came up by Kestrel Weyant (violin) and Glenn Weyant (viola). Mix Notes: Neither panning nor other effects were used in this recording.
From The Vault... Track Two from the 6/10/10 Tucson Sessions now banned in at least three states of mind. Hise on Electric Guitar processed via laptop and enhanced with sound samples. Weyant on Extended Wire Bungee Chair and violin. Hear Now.
For millions of years there were shallow seas and eventually a desert. Then for the last fifty plus years there was a home. Today there is dusty a lot. Tomorrow something new and and supersized and shiny will arise. The sound of human progress in the desert is destruction. Twas ever thus...
A simple improvisation for violin and instrument of original design improvisation loop...
ICE-O-PHONE is a lo-rez segment from an external/internal recording do out later this month titled: Listening With Asperger's Ears To Tucson.
The ICE-O-PHONE is an invention of original design I use to explore the natural resonance of ice in recording the external audio environment.
The process of the ice reverting to water/gas results in pops, hisses and crackling.
There are also some feedback tones from the high amplification used.
Listening With Asperger's Ears To Tucson will be made available around June 20, 2010 as high quality downloads and limited edition, handcrafted and numbered double disc sets (only twenty copies will be produced).
The full recording utilizes techniques and ideas I've discovered and developed during a lifetime of listening to what is not usually heard.
The raw material for this recording comes from roughly 100 hours of sound gathered in the City of Tucson, Arizona, USA.
An additional 40 plus hours of orchestrating, editing and mixing the sounds culminated in the final recordings.
For more information about Listening With Asperger's Ears To Tucson, stay tuned or email me directly.
Raw track from the 4/2/10 performance at Transfix: Retrospective featuring Logan Phillips on vocals, The Electric Ferris Box and a cast of thousands...
Spring is NOW in Tucson's Urban Sonoran Desert: flowers are wilting, cacti are blooming, bees buzz about with pollen saddle bags, eggs are hatching and being eaten, lizards are scurrying, heat is building.
On this track some of the main solos are by mocking birds, finches, sparrows, pigeons, doves, quail, woodpeckers (banging on wod and metal), flickers, curve billed thrashers, and a cardinal.
Sitting in for this session are a neighbor's air conditioning drones (seems kind of early for air conditioning to me), trains, early morning commuters, wind, leaves.
There is about an hour of sound so turn it up, let it stream and wherever you are will become, sonically at least, Tucson Arizona in the early hours of 4/19/2010.
Margaret Randall reads Ferry To The Other Side and other poems accompanied by Glenn Weyant on Nogales Border Wall, Nogales Arizona/Sonora.
An improvisation by Barbara Byers and Glenn Weyant for the Nogales Wall.
If bees swarm in the desert and there is no one there to hear, do they make a sound?
GIVE ME LITTERING OR GIVE ME DEATH is an immersive sound work for USA v. Daniel Millis, No. 09-10134 court audio, Electric Ferris Box and child-size violin.
The court audio was spliced and looped extensively to replicate the swamp of legal mumbo jumbo that permits building walls and roads in critical border habitat but simultaneously makes examples of American's doing what they do best: Helping people in need, regardless of race, religon or nationality.
Dan is a guy who found the body of a 14-year-old Salvadoran girl named Josseline who was migrating to America through the Southern Arizona, Sonoran desert.
His experiences in the borderlands motivated him to help other migrants from suffering the same fate.
So he started leaving water jugs in the desert.
A short time later, while distributing water jugs along migrant trails near the border, he was stopped by federal authorities and issued a citation.
The ticket was written for "littering."
If You'd Like To Make A Cawl is circa 1991 and culled from an answering machine tape remixed in four tracks on a Tascam Porta-Two Hi-Speed casette recorder. The answering machine remix was layered over a bed of heavilly processed feedback. The work is part of an extensive archive of sound material dating between 1987 and 1999. Expect further releases from the vault as time allows.
Winter Weather Report is circa 1988 and culled from a recording built with three cassette decks, electric guitar, paper, weather band radio, and Radio Shack microphones hung from the window of an apartment on Stegman Parkway in Jersey City. Two individual "tracks" were created by recording two separate works then playing them simultaneously through a stereo receiver and recording the result. This work is part of an extensive archive of sound material dating between 1987 and 1999. Expect further releases from the vault as time allows.
Towards the end of 2009 I had a chance to conduct a sonic walkabout at Solar Culture prior to Jeph's set. Before leaving I left my recorder running to capture the sound of the space once we left for our walkabout, and then the sound of our return, encountering Jeph's work. My performance was my absence, the vacuum created by leaving and taking the audience with me. Upon our return people were so attuned to intentional listening that an audience member slurping a pomegranate was at times as much the sonic focus of Jeph's set as Jeph himself, for good or ill.
For Tia is an improvised song on piano by Kestrel and Glenn Weyant dedicated to/about a dog who loved chasing rabbits.
While setting up for a wall playing session, Border Patrol runs a check on myself and film maker Steve Elkins, and an opportunity to discuss the sonic properties of the Nogales Wall arises.
Film maker/percussionist/professional gondolier Steve Elkins and myself take a break from filming to play King David's Wall and the desert soil below just West of the Sasabe Port of Entry.
A short mix of moments in the White Mountains: Elk, ravens, chipmonks, planes, car horn, coyotes, wind, cow, fire, horses and a few fat drops of rain.
On November 7 I was honored to set up a sound/vision installation again at the Annual Disco Day Of The Dead.
The gig is an invite only party, in a semi-secret location high in the Tucson Mountains somewhere along the line between National Park and so-called civilization.
The hosts and guests are generous and wonderful, and the space itself is designed for deep listening.
Outside I setup The Electric Ferris Box and created roughly five hours worth of soundscapes. On the wall of the home, visible for miles, we projected silent black and white films and video work by Adam Cooper-Teran.
But equally important, the installation was also influenced by the environmental sounds of crickets, planes, voices, and the party inside.
Playing in the night, beneath the stars, Tucson spreading like a phosphorous neon fungus across the landscape was mentally expansive. Not to mention the absurd moon which rose bloated and partially complete, lumbering up from behind the Catalina blackness only to melt back into the stars.
As I said it's a fun gig.
I hope you enjoy this construction...
A sounding taken from something wonderful in the works. Headphones highly suggested for listening. Stay tuned....
Bandjrone is a reconstruction for banjo and weather recorded inside a vehicle.
Encountered Tucson Taiko Kyokai playing under the Fourth Ave. underpass the other day.
Thunder gods below with trains passing above.
The underpass itself is an example of uninspired utilitarian urban blahness but the acoustics are interesting...
Encountered Tucson Taiko Kyokai playing under the Fourth Ave. underpass the other day.
Thunder gods below with trains passing above.
The underpass itself is an example of uninspired utilitarian urban blahness but the acoustics are interesting...
This time of year I enjoy playing piano with my neighborhood.
In the cool of morning/evening I open the windows and allow the internal and external soundscapes to merge and influence each other.
This recording honors the Sonoran season of open windows with an imrovisational sketch for piano, birds, planes, conversations, cars, wind, dogs, and trains.
It is also the season of the Trickster and hopefully some of that playfulness and exploration is retained as well.
The recording was made in one take without editing by setting up a microphone outside outside the piano location and facing the street.
...drone on...
Download is free if you listen. Less details at: www.sonicanta.com
In honor of Bob Dylan issuing a Holiday Season album....
In honor of Bob Dylan issuing a Holiday Season album....
Shortly after this story ran, Davis Monthan launched a barrage of air traffic over the city. Not sure if it was in response to the NPR story but it sure seemed like it. Air traffic began moments after the story aired (around 8 a.m.) and continued past 11 a.m.
Planes fly over residential areas, schools and parks. Many parents in the flight path teach their children to cover their ears when the planes pass.
Recording is made with a Zoom H2 on the lowest recording setting, handheld out my front door. Any other setting and the plane would have been to loud to record.
July 4 009:
Sitting on the front stoop, listening and watching, talking about the present color war, beneath moon and clouds, in the shadow of cactus, narrowly awake.
A rare day of Tucson desert rain in May.
Spent a good part of the day goofing off under a tin roof, accompanying rain and birds on banjo, listening to the day go by.
Percussion was from assorted pots and watering cans arranged here and there.
More details to come. Till then... good listening.
I was out for a hike, recording birds and planes and bugs and a trickling desert spring last summer.
Suddenly a swarm of killer bees passed overhead filling the canyon/wash with a powerful buzz.
Enjoy.
sound for bladder control....
With so many questions about the passage of H.R. 2578, I thought I should give Ron Barber's office a call and get the facts for myself.
I was hoping for better for this newly elected Democrat, but from what I can tell, walls and roads trump endangered species and the USA gets a 100 mile DMZ from sea to shining sea. So much for land of the free, home of the brave....
