The Roving Musicologist
Found Sound, Outsider, Street Performers, Sound Events, Experimental, Recorded and Posted with a minimum of interference.
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Travel Post #23: Party in the USA (Portland, Oregon Again)
Ending where I began the trip, this recording is a sampling of the country I almost left behind.
On this recording there is a street performer and two different conversations, one of which was just one person. While I can’t say where exactly they were recorded, the picture below was taken nearby one of them:
The storefront was blank except for soda bottles from bankrupt ventures.
Having recovered from the shock of being swathed once again in the language that not so long ago was reserved for the inside of my head, I have been able to put this together. More recordings from outside of the US will be posted when they can be identified.
Miley also welcomed me home when I caught a ride in a gleaming SUV. Photo courtesy of fisherwy.blogspot.com
Goatskin Sack Music was dominant at Alberta St.
And for those of you that came here in error:
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Travel Post #16: Thailand Sun Making a Man Slowly Give Up
There’s always a fair in Thailand…little bamboo and thatch huts that sit
in a little lawn and sell things. Everywhere I go I bump into some kind
of market or festival. For some reason, the Thai way is to have a guy
going around with a portable microphone and talk about whatever comes into
his head. On this day, I sat in the shade of an abandoned stall, sweating the whole time, and watched this guy.
The music for the festival was the drone like sounds
you hear, which was completely blown out by the guy’s voice. No one was
really listening to him, as there was hardly anyone at the fair in the
first place. The way he said “eah” with the sun coming down on him, carrying his battery pack around, seemed so much a product of the heat coming down. The drone of the Buddhist music in the background gave the fair the feeling that everything was happening automatically, indifferent to how much effort was exerted.
The Nan ethnic fair did not host the Princess of Thailand
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Wfmu Audio Postcard #1 for Night People
In addition to this website, I also send in audio postcards to WFMU, which are played on a show called “Night People.” It airs from 2am to 6am Eastern time, on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, and it has a podcast at the wfmu.org website. This is not a field recording, just me talking. On the show I’m known as Joseph Jonathan.
Although I didn’t want to post these here at first, I am a little too pressed for time to edit my other recordings right now as my flight to India is coming up fast.
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Sejayno of Baltimore
Sejayno channels cultures of the future through cross-tuning and meditative chant, among other things. Listen to the monologue in the audio for an example of where I want the roving musicologist to go.
Peter Blasser, member of Sejayno and Builder of instruments, relaxing in his home:
The instruments used in the recording. The venue was the Theosophical Society of Baltimore:
Sejayno’s page:
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