KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Series 2, May 27, 1985, 2 of 2

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.1985.05.27.B

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

121 min

Part

2 of 2

Dates

1985-05-27 | broadcast
| 1985-05-27 | created

Description

This program is the fourth in a new series of ambient field recordings from around the world. The original World Ear Project series was broadcast on KPFA in the early 1970s, as the portable cassette recorder first made such an ambitious undertaking economically affordable. In this, the second series, the idea of collecting sounds from unique and unusual environments from all over the world remains the same, however the advances in field recording technologies, including digital recording, make for a much higher quality experience. In this program Susan Stone, Richard Friedman, and Ty Allison present an entertaining amalgam of tape recordings made in ambient situations from around the globe.

Genres

Soundscapes
Field recordings

Musical Selections

[Inside the Cable Car Barn, excerpt, recorded Aug. 1982] / Jed Speare -- Touch Sanitation / Stephen Erickson -- [Macy’s on Christmas Eve] -- Voicemask [excerpt] / George Todd -- 8:30 am Clothesline [recorded outside a window on Potrero Hill, San Francisco] / Brenda Beebe -- [San Joaquin County Fair, California] / Randy Magnus -- [children in a school yard, Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, Summer 1984] -- Suspension Piece [excerpt] / Stelarc -- [Disney Land parking lot tram ride with announcer]

Subjects

Field recordings
Ambient sounds
City sounds
Machinery sounds
Electronic music
Heart sounds
Soundscapes (Music)

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Friedman, Richard
Stone, Susan, 1952-
Allison, Ty
Speare, Jed
Erickson, Stephen
Todd, George, 1935-
Beebe, Brenda
Magnus, Randy
Stelarc, 1946-