Hate it or love it, NATO is here in Chicago. While the summit doesn’t start until tomorrow, the expected protests are in full effect. This morning I found out about a march toward Rahm Emanuel’s home in the Ravenswood neighborhood.…
I recorded some freaking sweet thunder last week. Here’s one of my favorites. Careful, this is loud!
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/41629025″] Ran across this in an ambience track while entering metadata into my sound library. Recorded in the Chicago Union Station Great Hall. It’s hard to tell exactly what he’s saying, but for some reason I just love the…
Whether you realize it or not, you’re surrounded by electromagnetic fields almost everywhere you go. Anything with an electric current has one. That means your computer, phone, TV, hair dryer, vacuum, toaster… everything electronic.
Inspired by this #LinkOfTheDay, last week I set out to make my own type of “time lapse phonography”. So one morning as soon as I woke up, I grabbed my Zoom H4n and started recording the typical sounds of my…
It isn’t new years eve at my parents’ house with out fireworks. This year was no exception, but this time I was right there to record the moment. We only got a couple lit off before we decided to call…
My girlfriend’s father is a great machinist. In his home shop, he works on his own air pistol prototypes. He uses all kinds of big fancy machines for this. Now, I have no clue how to operate them or how…
This saturday I did some sound collecting for my Portal audio mod. I recorded just about everything in my apartment that makes noise, but I seemed to gravitate toward anything electric. Things like videogame consoles, lights, speakers, hard drives, space…