Construction is an integral part of maintaining the ordinary functioning of life in post-industrial California. In particular, construction and maintenance projects of shopping areas are all-important for re-enforcing the neurotic compromises that pleasure through consumption of commodities require. What happens when we turn the means of this maintenance (tractors n other construction tools) into a resonating machine? What does it mean and what can be produced by approaching the makers of the built environment acoustically? Can other relations to machinery and public space be imagined and enacted through such an approach? What would it to play the city, to seize it collectively as a site of creative potential, rather than the stale reproduction of the social with its attendant bummers n hang-ups n neuroses?
Tractor Ping #1 was recorded on the wharf at Santa Cruz with a Tascam DR100.
One sound taken from the 'Microblocks, vol.1' percussive found sound sample-pack. The sample-pack features 135 unique field recordings culled from the ordinary soundscapes of Santa Cruz, CA.
Find and download (for free) the rest of the sample pack here: https://fieldrecordingworkinggroup.bandcamp.com/releases
The sample pack comes with an accompanying essay describing the method, politics and historical context of the sample-pack.
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AIFF (.aiff)
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0:01.486
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395.1 KB
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44100.0 Hz
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24 bit
Channels
Stereo
