nula.cc: source of the nula filecasts
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Podcast Description
nula is the source of a series of filecasts, each consisting of an assemblage of sounds, images, or words, made available for download, sharing, commentary, and further manipulation. nula filecasts consist of field recordings, found material, and the like, put together in such a way as to form a unique new work. since there is a tendency here to let the work speak for itself as much as possible, the only way to really know about nula is to experience the works yourself.
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55986 bissextile | an intercalary day comes only once in four years (slightly less, in fact) so it is a worthy thing to mark it with a new filecast. to accomplish this, we mark time with a beat and set noise in the background. later, a woman reads a list of numbers, which a man acknowledges — for no apparent reason. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55969 deleted scene | it turns out that even silent films transferred to video tape in fact have a soundtrack — there is at least tape hiss, always present in any case. here, the telecine’s sound section was patched thru to the record head during such a transfer, the result being an unintended recording, put to use in this filecast as the backdrop for a few more intentional added musical incidents. | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55952 transported | field, mixed. three weeks of travel in morocco left many impressions, among them the bleared memory of the days-long effort of getting from here to there. air, rail, and road are sketched here in field recordings, with incidental human sounds freely intruding. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55928 horloge | field. the famous astronomical clock in the cathédrale saint-jean-baptiste in lyon is our subject. the incidental sounds of a tour group milling about the nave go on until the four-minute mark, when the horloge begins its labors, as it does just four times a day. a few minutes later, we proceed outside to the square just as the bell tower heralds four o’clock. | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55892 soprianoforte | improvisation. a hapless soprano and the nether strings of a pianoforte, selected for their opposing portions of the sound spectrum, are set in motion, just to see what happens. the tension is relieved by the occasional rattle of a cowbell. | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55886 notes from laos | field. audio notes, sound snapshots, and sonic impressions made while travelling in laos at the end of the rainy season. locations include several wats in vientiane, a guest house in savannaket, and the road along the banks of the mekong river. | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55849 seven times | three sources, one repeated seven times: 1. modulated brown, white, and pink noise with aggressive equalization. 2. fragmentary output from a supercollider session, complete with file corruption. 3. a marginal skype connection throwing errors. | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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55821 light on water | 1. an atmosphere based on the sound track of “by the bluest of seas” (boris barnet, 1936), which attempts (and humbly fails) to capture some of the unclassifiable sensibility of that film. 2. we close with a set performed by leon theremin, demonstrating his eponymous instrument. | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 8 Episodes |
