RE: [microsound] grill sounds

[richard chartier <chartier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>sounds and frequencies that people don't normally pay attention too, or
>>have learned to tune out.
>
>a few days ago, i found myself in a taxi at 5 a.m., being carted off to the
>oakland airport.  as we passed over the elevated freeways, the tires made
>the oddest sound on the grooved pavement below -- there were short, stabbing
>attacks of sound, at a high-enough frequency that they actually resembled
>*notes*.  there was the impression that there was some sort of music being
>made beneath the chassis of the cab; something like listening to a tape
>played backwards, perhaps, so that the structure is discernable, but all
>twisted up, unrecognizable, nonsensical.  these short, sawing phrases spat
>and gabbed beneath us, warbling the oddest of melodies, totally off-key and
>yet *almost* a form to be understood.


thanks for that post!

i almost totally forgot about that sound.... especially when the tires go
over the metal grills of a drawbridge... like the woodrow wilson bridge
outside of DC...

i have wanted to capture that sound for years but at the same time i like
the special-ness of only hearing it while en route to somewhere in maryland
and beyond.


richard

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