This is
my second adventure into the Museum of Microcassette Art and I must say that
despite there being almost 100 releases on this Band Camp so far I’m finding
myself getting pretty deep into it, in the sense that I want to go through and
download them all already.
What I
did with this release that was kind of funny (only not) was I listened to it
through, then went back and read the notes on the Band Camp page
afterwards. I made a lot of notes on the first side (aka
the first track) about how it opened with the sound of a truck starting, I
could hear air static or possibly cars.
I
thought as well that this could be a field recording done outside either an
airport or raceway. I heard noises such
as cars honking their car horns and thought it sounded like we were stuck in
traffic perhaps, or broke down on the side of the road.
Upon
reading the track listing for Side A, I came to find that we first experienced
“My Car Engine”, then “Train” and finally “Rob SPIN’s engine (car)”, so I
wasn’t that far off in my guess work and feel overall like it was a lot of fun
listening and interpreting on some level.
I
thought we were underwater on the second side, or perhaps outside on a rather
windy day, but as it turns out from what I like to now think of as the linear
notes, we were bowling. This is truly a great experiment in sound, how
we hear things and can recognize them whether they are every day sounds or
not. Also, just how things in general
can sound like other things.
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