It’s been a busy May, mostly creating in the background with little in the world, and little to report. Some more news is in the works, just need some crosses for the ‘i’s and dots for the … or something like that.
Some Venus Vulture tracks from the Heavy Skies EP were played on the NTNS radio podcast on May 9th. Mark has played some of my music (from Signal Artifacts) and music by other Resting Bell artists on previous podcasts. The whole show is around three hours long and also features music from morsure souffle by d’incise, also from Test Tube
My story Eddie’s on Fire has just been published on MicroHorror. There have been some positive comments on the story, including this from Joshua Scribner “I like this. The writing flows. It reads like a literary piece, and then, suddenly, horror. I was drawn into the romance aspect of it, and I was worried about the little girl when the kerosene was introduced. Nice ending. Good job.”
Artist David Andree made a call for field recordists to participate in a collaborative recording event which took place on February 28th at 15:00:00 GMT/UTC, as part of an art project to be exhibited at the big orbit gallery in buffalo, ny from march 7th – 28th 2009. Field recordists from around the world simultaneously recorded the sound of the wind for five minutes. David then compiled the recordings into the exhibition.
I was in Death Valley at 7am local time (3pm GMT) and, though I was travelling light and didn’t get access to the technology needed to upload the recording in time for the exhibition, I made this recording –
The hand-clap sound at the beginning is part of the project’s synching. Mostly this is the sound of my own circulation system, and occasional noises as I shifted my weight on the stoney ground. This is a binaural recording, so headphone listening might enhance the sense of it. Note, it is also very quiet – remember to turn your volume down before you put Metallica on again (or not).
I was near Daylight Pass – just South of where the road meets the California/Nevada state line (the white dashed line), on the California (left) side:
More stuff on Death Valley coming – I spent the day there, my second visit. Seven years ago I made the Venus Vulture album “Death Valley”, which had* limited** circulation. I listened to the CD as I drove around during the day. Now I’m starting work on a new project “Death Valley Redux”, which will hopefully see release later this year.
*(and always will have – I was still learning about music and how it works)
**(to friendly and encouraging family and friends)
Infrequency made an open call for artitst to submit interpretations of the 1860 recording of Au Clair de la Lune by Édouard-Léon Scott, the earliest known recording of the human voice, to compliment the double CD compilation. The Venus Vulture interpretation “Monduacs” is included in the the digital only collection. See Infrequency for more details and the download link.
I’ve had another story published on PowderBurnFlash. PBF is a flash-fiction site focusing on crime and mystery stories under 1000 words. There are some very cool stories on the site, check it out.
Mark at NTNS radio does some brilliant quarterly compilations from netlabels and I’m honoured to have had a Venus Vulture track selected for the last quarter of 2008 set here. The full download link for each of the four sets is here.
Triple V Publishing 