Hi,

Great project, like to hear the result of your experiment.

It takes time to listen …

I can record 24 hours if you want and find a way to transfer it in a decent format

My (garden) microphones are listening anyway

You can hear them at http://planktone.be/planktuin

Maybe you can record it direct from them ?

I had the same question in 1993

I had the opportunity to do a project for Antwerp ’93 Cultural capital of Europe.

I was also fascinated by the hum a city creates

My interest was “ where does this hum come from”

I used a computer-controlled DAT recorder which made each 23 minutes a 1-minute recording ( actually each 22:30 minutes a 2 minute recording )

This recorder was installed in 24 locations in my home city of Antwerp ( eg. The main railway station, a elevator, the highway, the highest and lowest point in the city, … )

This way I got 1440 snapshots of my city

From these I made a linear edit on a SONY RM-D7300 set using a score I wrote based on some mathematical rules and translated into timecode references …

It became 60 1-minute sound images of 1 minute.

It took us 14 days to finalize, and it was released on CD as part in the box NOUVELLE SYNTHESE D’ANVERCE

The box is out of stock ( still on ebay as collector’s item ) but can the CD is online at http://planktone.be/dwalingen ( after some clicking through the info ) the sounds start at https://planktone.be/dwalingen/page01.html  … up to page60)

I once made an experiment layering the 24 locations on top of each other … and I got the hum of a ( my ) city … but never did this with the full 1440 recordings

So … I find your project interesting to listen to … very curious how it sounds.

Grtz,

W.

Ps. I still collect washing machines doing a full warm (40°) color wash … http://planktone.be/wash

Van: Locustream <locustream-bounces@nujus.net> Namens Zach Poff
Verzonden: vrijdag 25 maart 2022 4:22
Aan: locustream@locusonus.org
Onderwerp: [locustream mailing list] "time-lapse" stream recordings

Hello fellow streamers.

I've been experimenting recently with a "time-lapse" logic for listening to durational field recordings, trying to condense long-term imperceptible changes into something we can more readily understand. I've been doing 24hr recordings and playing them through a Max patch to compress them to 1hr (using thousands of cross-faded fragments). The gradual exchanges between soundmakers (people / animals / weather ...) seems to be heightened by the montage. But I'm also noticing how the "constant" hum of the city evolves too: not so constant as it shifts in dominant pitch and color. I love the unrelenting "liveness" of open microphones so I'm interested in how these two nearly-opposite listening practices might combine.

I need 22 of these "1 hour = 1 day" segments. I have been leaving recorders "undercover" near my home in New York, USA, but I'm also reaching out to recordists and streamers to see if people are interested in contributing a 24hr field recording or permission to record their live-stream for a day. If so, I'd love to talk off-list.

Thanks!

-Zach Poff