The Thousand Pumpkin March
The Great Thousand Pumpkin March in Downtown Catskill.
by Maddie Fix-Hansen and Dharma Dailey
October 24 2008 | sound & image | No Comments »
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Wake Up North Country! Impeach Bush Cheney
Driving through Moose Country, I came across this display put together by North Country Veterans for Peace. They put so much work into it, I thought I should take a few pictures.
September 15 2008 | undoing violence and sound & image | No Comments »
No, Virginia, Girls Don’t Sing Anymore
A day comes when each girl must come to terms with the facts: A tooth under your pillow just collects lint. The Easter Bunny doesn’t lay eggs. Santa doesn’t do drive-bys. In the early days of the 21st century add to that: Girls don’t sing anymore– at least not the one’s that get lots of radio play.
August 26 2008 | feminist interventions in geek culture and sound & image | No Comments »
Building Community One Watt at a Time
When people find out that I advocate for low-power community radio the first question they ask is, “How far do those stations go?” I tell them, the beauty of community radio is not how far it reaches but how deep it reaches. A quick example:
June 12 2008 | sound & image and on communication | No Comments »
the rise and fall and rise? of 2 community nets in chicago
For the seven.1 people in the world- you know who you are- who are super interested in the fascinating but small vanguard we call Community Networks– I bring you an interview with Bill Comisky. Bill is an antenna designer in Chicago who moonlights as a volunteer on two community based networks in Chicago. When I* interviewed him in March, one network was “dark” — that is turned off- and the other network was humming along. He gave me his take why both projects chose open source software, the appeal to volunteer on community technology projects, asset building from the ground up, and the struggle to keep one net going and get another back up. (*A chipmunk named Betty actually conducted the interview.)
October 17 2007 | sound & image and on communication | No Comments »
The Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour Rough Cut
Here is a somewhat edited recording- a rough cut that will be edited into a larger piece- of the The Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour. I took this tour in 2002 as part of the Lackawanna Ambassadors program. Our tour guide was a retired miner who worked in the Drifts about 100 miles south of Scranton. The most exciting part of the audio for me are the ambient sounds. I will use them wantonly throughout the edited piece. Lee the tour guide is everything that you want in a tour guide, a knowledgeable and authentic sounding character. Lee gives the dish on mining terminology, what causes the most fatalities in mines, proper blasting technique, and other sordid details of life underground. Note that the parts when everyone gets quiet– that’s when we are descending and ascending underground in complete darkness.
Feel free to use this rough cut for non-commercial purposes. If you do use it, please drop me a line and let me know for goodness sakes what use you were able to put it to.
September 28 2007 | mining and sound & image | No Comments »
Come Back Baby
A favorite old blues song heavily altered by Jerome Lindberg. Me singing and on guitar.
May 22 2007 | sound & image | 1 Comment »
I’m Not Yours
Writing, singing, playing, recording and editing all performed by the little red hen right in her very own kitchen studio.
Feel free to use for non-commercial share alike porpoises.
May 28 2006 | personal writings and sound & image | No Comments »
The Fierce Bad Rabbit: Homage to Rita McKeough
I completely love this audio piece for 12 reasons. First, it has the voice of several beloved (by me) audio art and community radio producers from across North America: Frieda Werden, Marc Andre Roy, Glady Brooks and Rita McKeough. Second, it was stitched together from found sound: We were testing different microphones for comparision. All the audio was improvised in the moment. But it has a narrative, in my mind, that hangs together around Rita. Marc added the nice ascending keyboard elements using a toy keyboard. Originally, this piece was put together for a live performance at the 2004 Full Moon Audio Art Camp in New Brunswick. Thus the extreme left-right mix.
Many happy thoughts to all the audio artists out there who like to improvise. Happy thoughts squared to those who like to improvise, play with audio equipment, build weird gadgetry, sing campfire songs, eat 100% local vegetarian and camp by the sea!
September 15 2004 | feminist interventions in geek culture and sound & image and on communication | No Comments »