Wake Up and Hear the Roses

Wake Up and Hear the Roses

     

This collection is for anyone with curious ears and an open mind. The subject is sound and the places it can take us. Most tracks have a short intro, followed by an immersive soundscape, and a quick ending. The tracks fall into several categories:

6 tracks of nature sound - Spring Peepers, Thai Hills Dawn, Kauai Birds, Gualala Frogs, Summer Insects, Antillanca

2 urban soundscapes - like it's 1999 (San Francisco) & Yoyogi Park (Tokyo)

6 electronic fantasies (some with quasi-scientific explanations) - Ice Drip, How Do Mushrooms Know When to Grow, Wind Theory, Jazz from Enceladus, Inner Skin, The Sound of Colors

5 dense "all at once listening" - Bach 24 Preludes, Bach 24 Fugues (where you hear them all at once), and Tristan Acts 1, 2, 3 (where you hear the entire act of the Wagner opera all at once)

If that's not enough, there's an interview an interview with John Cage that's been subjected to chance operations - "by chance, a tribute to John Cage."

There ought to be something here for anyone who enjoys listening as a journey. As the host says, "Open your ears. Your mind will follow."