Saturday Sep 07, 2024

The 2024 US Open Sound Experiment

Episode 132

The 2024 US Open Sound Experiment

Playlist

Note: The starting times indicate at which time during the podcast a sound begins. The tracks often overlap based on the given length of each track.

Time	Track Time	Start
Introduction –Thom Holmes	03:36	00:00
1. Chair Umpires	01:19	05:24
2. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Granular effect, Classic.	03:46	05:40
3. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Quick Sampler, Bent Guitar.	06:16	07:20
4. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Blur	01:50	09:08
5. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Low/High Cut.	02:58	10:56
6. Arthur Ashe Stadium, Meta-Synth, Inertia setting	25:16	11:26
7. Grandstand Stadium, Meta-Synth, Inertia setting,	08:36	12:16
8. Grandstand Stadium, Auto-Filter, Constant Rise Four Bars.	08:33	29:48
9. Grandstand Stadium, Arturia MiniFilter V, Beatchopper.	08:33	31:02
10. Arthur Ashe Stadium, Delay Designer, Buzz Pattern.	26:05	34:40
11. Louis Armstrong Stadium, Delay Designer, Pulse Groove.	24:42	54:36
12. Grandstand Stadium, AutoFilter, Volume Gate Filter.	22:31	01:16:38
13. Arthur Ashe Stadium, Pedlboard, Blue Echo, Squash Compressor.	30:28	01:36:28
14. East Village Neighborhood, AutoFilter, Resonant High Pass; Delay Designer, Ring and Roll.	27:28	01:37:56
15. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Granular effect, Classic.	07:56	02:02:48
16. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Quick Sampler, Bent Guitar.	08:02	02:03:56
17. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Blur	03:46	02:06:59
18. USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center—outer courts. Sample Alchemy, Spectral effect, Low/High Cut.	02:54	02:09:44

Recording equipment used: Zoom Hn4 Pro digital recorder; Shure CVB-B/O Boundary Condenser Microphone; Boya Omnidirectional Cardioid XLR Lavalier Microphone.

Opening background music: Opening background music: A mix of tennis recordings set to a track called “Make It Good” by DJ Tennis (2012 Life and Death). The tennis recordings include excerpts from Arthur Ashe, Learn Tennis (For Beginners & Advanced Players) (1974 Manhattan Recording Company), John Newcombe, Tennis With John Newcombe (1974 K-Tel), and Evonne Goolagong, Tennis Tips By Evonne Goolagong (1975 Fleetwood Records), narrated with questions by Bud Collins.

Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes.

My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022.