So 191 Audioscapes
[00:00:00] audio: Welcome to Strung Out, the podcast that looks at life through the lens of an artist. Your host is the artist, writer, and musician, Martin Lawrence McCormack. Now here's Marty.
[00:00:13] Martin McCormack: Hey there, great to have you with us and welcome to another podcast of Strung Out. One of the things I did last year that I want to do this year again is what I call audioscapes.
[00:00:27] And this gives you the opportunity to listen to things that you might not ordinarily listen to. At least that's what I'm trying to do when I capture these sounds. And sounds are very interesting when taken out of the everyday experience that you experience them in. We're going to get right to it.
[00:00:57] The last podcast I did of this, if you go back and find it, it was done during the summer when I was down near Indiana Dunes National Park and some great recordings of a thunderstorm coming through and I encourage you to check that out, especially this time of year when we don't have thunderstorms, at least in this section of the world.
[00:01:23] Now this podcast goes back these recordings, these field recordings, if you will goes back away to December. And I want to start with the first one that was recorded right around Christmas, December 23rd. And it is up in Evanston, Illinois. And we're going to be listening to Lake Michigan on a relatively calm.
[00:01:54] evening. So let's listen to Lake Michigan Lakeshore.
[00:05:27] This next recording took place New Year's Eve off the back porch in Chicago. In Chicago, on New Year's Eve, we have a tendency to have a lot of people shoot off guns. And you'll hear fireworks, but you're also going to hear gunfire. It's a little disconcerting, but that's what happens out here in Chicago for New Year's Eve.
[00:05:54] So here we are with New Year's gunfire.
[00:05:57] audio: We're going to
[00:09:07] Martin McCormack: take a little break, and when we come back We're going to have more audioscapes. You are listening to Strung
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[00:09:29] com. Welcome back.
[00:09:36] Martin McCormack: Back in January, I traveled down to Phoenix, Arizona to do some shows with Switchback. And one evening, we were taken to a Mexican restaurant, just a little bit outside of Sun City. And this was a very authentic Mexican restaurant. And there were some workers who had been deep in their cups at the point of that evening.
[00:10:02] And I just took the opportunity to grab a little bit of the ambiance of Mexican restaurant in full action down in Phoenix, Arizona. So let's listen in.
[00:10:39] audio: I went into the bathroom and I was like the whole thing was filled up with people right there. Oh, yeah. What a group. What'd you do, put it in Costa Rica? No. Beautiful.
[00:11:19] Martin McCormack: The next audioscape that we're going to listen to. is of bell choir rehearsals. And I have two different bell choirs that I am going to play for you. These two snippets, I'm going to put them together of the rehearsal of the bell choir. And the bell choir is something that was developed in England back in the 1500s, the 1600s.
[00:11:45] And It's really a Protestant church thing. You don't see it in too many other denominations, but I just want you to listen in on the rehearsal. And each person holds a bell, two bells actually, and they are correspond, they're built to a note. And they don't quite get the whole pentatonic scale, but you're going to get the drift of it when you listen to it.
[00:12:14] So here we have. Bell
[00:12:16] audio: Choir rehearsal,
[00:12:46] the last course. C, D, G. Are you playing play? Anybody who has a C or a E or a G,
[00:13:05] CEG.
[00:13:10] 13, 13.
[00:13:46] 10, 13,
[00:13:53] 4,
[00:14:05] Max fingers. Okay, now, that'll be about 2 minutes and
[00:14:11] Martin McCormack: a
[00:14:12] audio: half 4,
[00:14:35] 2, 3,
[00:14:53] 4, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 5, 1, 3,
[00:16:17] I'm going to take this
[00:16:18] Martin McCormack: opportunity to take another break and when we come back I am going to continue along with our audioscapes. You are listening to Strung
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[00:16:44] He works in several different formats, painting, illustration, drawings, and a very unique way of doing scratch art, which I think you'll find very interesting. So go check it out. martinmccormack. com click on the gallery look at the art and when you're ready to start your own collection send me an email at martyfineart at gmail.
[00:17:11] com thanks for listening
[00:17:18] Martin McCormack: our last bit here takes place again in arizona down near the superstition mountains and i was close to the highway so you're going to hear some cars but Every so often, silence comes sweeping in, and it's really cool to hear silence in a desert. This is right off the Apache Highway, right near the Superstition Mountains, and we are going to listen to
[00:17:49] audio: the desert.
[00:20:48] I have two
[00:20:49] Martin McCormack: more clips for you for our audio scape podcast. This one I call Mexican Birds. Just last week I was down in Tulum with Switchback and our fans for our Tropical Mystery Tour. And there were some just They look like grackles to me. They were very vocal and amazing in the way they could sing and communicate.
[00:21:16] Let's listen in to some Mexican grackles.
[00:21:23] audio: The
[00:23:03] Martin McCormack: final clip I want to give you is of the airport in Cancun. And I was sitting there waiting for the flight. And I could hear just this weird thing of people talking. And it was just, it became this own Entity, if you will, because it was reverberating off of everything and I just, I was fascinated by it because there was not one little conversation you could pick up on.
[00:23:38] There was a lady speaking in Spanish close by to me. I think she kept saying bueno. You're going to hear some audio scape of the airport in Cancun,
[00:23:50] audio: Mexico.
[00:24:15] Well,
[00:26:02] Martin McCormack: that's it for now. with audioscapes. I hope to bring back some more of these and I hope you like them. And I invite you, if you have an audioscape you want to share with me, you just have to reach out to me and tell me what it is, identify it and send it along. I would love to hear it until next time.
[00:26:26] I hope you enjoyed this podcast and keep on listening, right? We'll talk to you next week. Bye-Bye.
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