**Production Notes**
Life in the city feels can feel monotonous during the pandemic. So my wife and I flee to my parent’s garden over the weekend whenever possible.
I recorded Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes with a plenty of ambience full of birds, bees, and cycling planes overhead. I’m still amazed what the little microphone of the Roland R 07 picks up – you can hear my wife talking roughly 20 meters away.
Fun fact: I also used a wind chime at the exact same location for the Disquiet Junto Aeolian Metrics assignment ([https://soundcloud.com/analoc/disquiet-junto-107-greifenberg)]
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**Disquiet Junto Project 0484: A Movable Heart**
The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location.
First, some background: Artist Chris Kallmyer’s “Two hearts are better than one” is a pair of wind chimes, one of which is depicted in this week’s cover image, crisscrossing Los Angeles at the height of the pandemic. Installed at homes for week-long listening sessions, the chimes formed a duet across a city and provided intimate experiences with sound for 16 families sheltering at home. (More at chriskallmyer.com.)
Step 1: Chris has provided us with a recording of the wind chimes, a little over five minutes long. The audio was cleaned up by Alex Hawthorn to maximize the clarity of the chimes themselves, removing much of the background sound, thus situating the chimes in what might be thought of as a platonic space. Access the wav file at dropbox.com.
Step 2: You’ll be continuing the journey of this wind chime. You’ll do this by playing the wav file recording out loud somewhere you choose, and recording the sound of the wind chime in that environment.
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More on this 484th weekly Disquiet Junto project — A Movable Heart (The Assignment: Transplant the sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s wind chimes to a new location) — at: https://disquiet.com/0484/
More on Chris Kallmyer at: chriskallmyer.com.
Major thanks to Alex Hawthorn for support: alexhawthorn.com
More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/
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