Teresa Foley’s Sounds
August 17th, 2010We’re re-printing Teresa’s post from yesterday, along with the sounds that she was kind enough to send along. Listen to the MP3’s below and follow Teresa’s links for explanations. Teresa: I didn’t find a description for the “Frisbee Wakestone” Sound. Can you explain it?
Comment:
Is there a sound particular to your neighborhood? Would love to not only hear from you but to hear some of your signature sounds.
Funny you should ask, Jim! Through my public art project, Locally Toned, I’ve been asking a similar question of folks (”What does Pittsburgh sound like?”). Then I’ve collaborated with interested parties to turn the sounds important to them into ringtones (or tiny regional audio documentaries distributed virally that play back on cell phones at unexpected times, in unexpected places). The tones/audio files are shared with the broader public for free (Creative Commons licensing). We’ve got a prison whistle (that I recorded with a former federal offender who served time in the former Western Penitentiary), Coqui ringtones (from a professor who studies them at a university here), Serinette music box tones from the Bayernhof (mechanical musical instrument) Museum, a sugar glider (flying squirrel) waking up–you can (almost) name it and the sound is in the project.
And I’m just back from Berlin, Germany where I recorded the birds in the bushes near the Reichstag, sounds at a Turkish market, and where I did some underground train recordings with another audio artist. Your post above with the sounds you mention reads like a starter menu for my audio distribution site and Blog.
BTW, the Blog is where I tell the stories of the sounds and their audio collaborators and/or contributors.
I’ll email some sounds from the project.
Kind regards,
T. (for Teresa) Foley
OK, HERE ARE TERESA’S SOUNDS & LINKS:
-these link to the stories about the sounds
COQUI
http://locallytoned.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/elinsons-coqui-tones/
WESTERN PEN
http://locallytoned.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/western-pen-whistle/
SERINETTE
http://locallytoned.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/serinette-bayernhof2/
SUGAR GLIDER
http://locallytoned.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/sugar-glider-tones/
REICHSTAG BIRDS (near bottom of post)
http://locallytoned.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/post-card-tones-berlin/
Regards,
Teresa

