I watched an episonde of The EGG on Public Television last night that was
all about the sound archives in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
There they have thousands of records available for anyone to listen to with
samples of everything from locomotives to people talking about their cats.
(I mean literally EVERY sound imaginable documented and archived...)
And they were interviewing DJs who explored sound creation with vinyl. One
DJ showed how he would take two or more records and slice them up like
pies... only to reassemble the two record pieces into a single record to
create a rhythmic sampling of sound; the rhythm forming as the needle passed
from one piece of one record to another...
Very cool.
quoted 3 lines a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"...>> a more interesting question is "what's the story behind their name?"...
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> wasn't laika a dog the russians sent into space?
Oh yeah... and one of the archived sounds that were played was Laika's
heartbeak as heard from the ground as Laika orbited the Earth.
-matT
nashville.tn
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