catalog number: and.p34
artist: CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
title: Found Soundscape: C-SPAN Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009
release year: 2009
format: MP3
status: available
artist: CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
title: Found Soundscape: C-SPAN Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009
release year: 2009
format: MP3
status: available
Track listing:
01. C-SPAN Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009
A found soundscape culled with no internal edits captured from CSPAN
by Christopher DeLaurenti immediately after the inauguration of President Barack Obama
on January 20, 2009. Despite sounding mostly mono, slight variations in phase and
amplitude make this a stereo file. The first in a series of raw, panoramic soundscapes heard
in and winnowed from everyday life.
Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle based composer, improvisor, and phonographer. A new
music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles for several publications.
01. C-SPAN Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009
A found soundscape culled with no internal edits captured from CSPAN
by Christopher DeLaurenti immediately after the inauguration of President Barack Obama
on January 20, 2009. Despite sounding mostly mono, slight variations in phase and
amplitude make this a stereo file. The first in a series of raw, panoramic soundscapes heard
in and winnowed from everyday life.
Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle based composer, improvisor, and phonographer. A new
music rabble-rouser, he also writes music reviews and articles for several publications.
DISQUIET (APRIL, 2009)
Sound artist and composer Christopher DeLaurenti is becoming the Studs Terkel of silence.
He’s best known for his recordings of symphony halls in between concert performances,
when the musicians are tuning their instruments and, occasionally, playing brief melodic
phrases either solo or in spur-of-the-moment groupings (disquiet.com). If Terkel set the
standard for documenting the world in the original voices of his interviewees, DeLaurenti
deserves credit for his dogged documentation of the presumed silences in human
interaction — recordings of passing sounds that he frames, thus allowing them to tell their
own stories.
Among his recent discoveries is a 40-minute soundscape “captured from CSPAN,” the cable
channel dedicated to broadcasting the U.S. government in action — or, as DeLaurenti
shows, also inaction. The track was recorded following President Barack Obama’s
inauguration, and in it you can hear helicopter noise, the mumbling of bureaucrats, and a
crowd consumed by its ebullience (MP3). The track, “Found Soundscape: C-SPAN
Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009,” was released earlier this year as a free
download on the and/OAR label.
Sound artist and composer Christopher DeLaurenti is becoming the Studs Terkel of silence.
He’s best known for his recordings of symphony halls in between concert performances,
when the musicians are tuning their instruments and, occasionally, playing brief melodic
phrases either solo or in spur-of-the-moment groupings (disquiet.com). If Terkel set the
standard for documenting the world in the original voices of his interviewees, DeLaurenti
deserves credit for his dogged documentation of the presumed silences in human
interaction — recordings of passing sounds that he frames, thus allowing them to tell their
own stories.
Among his recent discoveries is a 40-minute soundscape “captured from CSPAN,” the cable
channel dedicated to broadcasting the U.S. government in action — or, as DeLaurenti
shows, also inaction. The track was recorded following President Barack Obama’s
inauguration, and in it you can hear helicopter noise, the mumbling of bureaucrats, and a
crowd consumed by its ebullience (MP3). The track, “Found Soundscape: C-SPAN
Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009,” was released earlier this year as a free
download on the and/OAR label.
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