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stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art186: The Lights Out There
And then, there was the light. The fleeting, fragile light. A flicker at the edge of a memory, a dying sun at the end of a long shift. Ah, yes, the light—so stubborn, so fleeting, and yet it lingers in the cracks, doesn’t it? It reminds us that even in the moments we feel most lost, there’s a glow waiting for us. Not to save us, no—salvation is a luxury for another story—but to guide us. Just far enough to see what lies ahead and no farther.
This week on the podcast, a conversa...2025-01-2615 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art184: The Space Between (Immeasurable Episode 6)
The sixth and final episode of the Immeasurable limited series. History, nature, thoughts, stories: What does it mean to be human if not to make choices? What will you choose to see? To hear? Are you focused on the clouds? The trees? The things that pass quickly, or the things that last?
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, an...2024-10-0527 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art183: Investments (Immeasurable Episode 5)
Okay, on this episode. In this episode, we are going to talk about investments. Investments in time, space, always time and space, but also things like earth and water. And don’t forget about investments in things and things. And, of course, liquidity markets. Or is it market liquidity? Or is it, I don’t know. yes. Episode 183 of the stopGOstop podcast and the fifth episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found...2024-09-0215 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art182: Rally (Immeasurable Episode 4)
Episode 182. This is the fourth episode in the Immeasurable mini-series. Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally Rally
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, and voices, creating a tapestry that can be experienced in...2024-08-1916 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art181: Growth (Immeasurable Episode 3)
Episode 181, Growth, is an experimental fiction featuring the history of the bus, the art of Gilles Aillaud, the influences of walking with Charles Dickens, and much, much more!
This is the third episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, and voices, creating a tapestry that can be experienced in order or sh...2024-08-0617 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art180: Benefits (Immeasurable Episode 2)
Benefits: Dear future humans; for many, this isn’t the plan; tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow; episode 180.
Benefits is the second episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, and voices, creating a tapestry that can be experienced in order or shuffled for a new perspective each time.
Written and produce...2024-07-1520 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art179: Exchange (Immeasurable Episode 1)
Conversations and interactions while waiting for the bus, talking to a colleague on Zoom, chatting with a stranger at the bar, and with the voices in the dark. A narrative in parts, made whole. stopGOstop is proud to present episode 179, Exchange.
Exchange is the first episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.
Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas...2024-07-0619 min
stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 06: Summertime
Can we revisit our past and change it? Jerome wakes up in Omaha, thinking about Jaws, and the summer of 2003. Then, a reporter recounts her experience at an anti-war protest, followed by Jerome talking a bit about the Utah Jazz, Lebron James, and how to make a proper scrambled egg.
Summertime features the voice talents of Anna Clark, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel. The program is written, composed, and produced by John Wanzel.
2021-06-0116 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 05: Honest
Where do history and memory intersect? Episode five features long sections of fan-fiction involving Ann Rutledge and Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, as well as more information about the end of the relationship between Jerome and Regina..
Honest features the voice talents of Anna Clark, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel. The program is written, composed, and produced by John Wanzel.
2021-05-1800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 04: The Story of Remy
How do past, present, and future change when a loved one dies? Episode four is the story of Remy. It takes place in the forest, and involves the CIA, stress positions, Labor Day, the highway, and an undiscovered country..
The Story of Remy features the voice talents of Anna Clark, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel. The program is written, composed, and produced by John Wanzel.
2021-05-0400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 03: SEX DRUGS ROCK THE DEVIL
Have you ever thought about how your job has changed your sense of self? In this episode, Jerome recounts his first job, and how he got the nickname Rome..
SEX DRUGS ROCK THE DEVIL features the voice talents of Anna Clark, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel. The program is written, composed, and produced by John Wanzel.
2021-04-2100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 02: Night Moves
What fills in the voids of memory? In episode 2, Jerome interviews Regina about Nick’s death. A discussion about movies and secrets is interspersed with stage directions and the WHO’s report on the global burden of disease. The program concludes with an interview with Tamara.
Night Moves features the voice talents of Anna Clark, Brian Taylor, and John Wanzel. The program is written, composed, and produced by John Wanzel.
2021-04-0600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound artISW 01: Accidents of Life
What do you remember more, the death of a friend or the death of thousands? The series begins with an interview recounting the summer of 2003 and the death of Nick. The episode then traces Jerome’s family history in the armed forces, the start of the Iraq war, the beginning of Covid-19, and gun violence in Chicago.
As part of the first season of the Idaho Street Workshop I am posting the episodes here on the stopGOstop feed.
2021-03-2300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art150: You can do this yourself
It starts with an announcement. Episode 150 continues with a sound collage featuring: bike safety, atomic clocks, basketball, the Chicago Style, a bit of chaos, GPS, and featuring synthetic piano, slowed down typing, low notes, and much much more!
For more information about my new project please visit idahostreetworkshop.com
2021-03-1100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art149: In the world
A transformation/remix of how do you think i began in the world, an album I released in April 2020. In the wolrd rearranges and revoices about of a quarter of the orginal elements of the piece. I have also added bits and pieces of audio from the rehearsal launch of Apollo One.
If you would like to support the podcast, please think about purchasing the album via bandcamp. Use code PODCAST at check out for 50% off. Also, if you would like a free copy of the album, please email me at john(dot)wanzel(at...2021-02-1400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art148: We feel the blame
Episode 148 is an audio collage featuring recordings concerning translation, domestication, the Mandelbrot set and with a (computer generated) guitar, bass, piano and trumpet accompaniment.
2021-01-0200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art147: Spreckels Incantation
Sometimes at lunch, I hear the organist practicing at the Spreckels Organ in Balboa Park. The organ is “the world’s largest outdoor instrument,” and has “more than 5,000 pipes” that are usually used to play a variety of show tunes and standard classical fare.
Episode 147 is an incantation to the great instrument, that has been underused these last months. Its pipes not adored by listeners, its tunes heard mostly by trees, buildings, and birds.
2020-12-1400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art146: Yardwork with synths
This episode features a stereo recording of working in the yard and slow meditative synths.
2020-11-2900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art145: It’s been a long couple of months
It starts with a flurry, a quickening, eventually slowing down. The strumming and pecking in the background start to become more pronounced as the anxieties lessen. The beat stops, and the feedback envelops. In the distance a melody is present, but the foreground disguises it. Sounds of a being back in public emerge, and the simple melody may have become a little out of tune.
Episode 145 of the podcast features a manipulated recording of a guitar, several midi interments, and a binaural field recording.
2020-11-0800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art144: Camping sites are clean and have bear-proof lockers
In mid-August, I spent about a week camping. The majority of the time I was at Mancos State Park. There was a no-burn order for the entire state, so most nights I would sit and read and write until my solar-powered lights grew dim, listen to music via my phone while watching the stars appear in the sky, and I also would sit, drink a beer, and listen to the sounds of the park. My campsite was about two miles from the edge of the Arapaho Forest, about ten miles from Mesa Verde National Park, and an hour in...2020-09-2600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art143: Time goes slow
The launch of Apollo 6, government stimulus, Angela Davis, colonies on Mars, Malcolm X, explorations of outer space, 1968, futurists, and a remix of suite I, Mars, from The Planets, Op.32, by Gustav Holst.
The seven suites of Holst’s The Planets were first played together in September of 1918, during a worldwide pandemic. Time goes slow, is the second in a series of audio collages that look back at the past 102 years, exploring the parallels and contradictions between science and culture.
2020-08-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art142: You know what you want
Cosmic Background Radiation, Lenard Bernstein, Angela Davis, IBM Control Programs, Malcom X, DIY synth construction, 1968, James Baldwin and a remix of suite IV Jupiter, from The Planets, Op.32, by Gustav Holst.
The seven suites of Holst’s The Planets were first played together in September of 1918, during a worldwide pandemic. You know what you want, is the first in a series of audio collages that look back at the past 102 years, exploring the parallels and contradictions between science and culture.
2020-07-2300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art141: The Structure of the Earth (part two)
The Structure of the Earth (part two of two) a new composition for speakers or headphones.
2020-07-0300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art140: The Structure of the Earth (part one)
The Structure of the Earth (part one of two) a new composition for speakers or headphones.
2020-06-2600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art139: The New Vegetable; or all of New Jersey is an Inferno.
New patterns! Spies! Alcohol! Orson Welles! Food! Mars! and much! much! more! stopGOstop is proud to present, The New Vegetable; or all of New Jersey is an Inferno, a new sound collage.
2020-05-1400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art138: Inventive Genius
The economy! The economy! The economy! stopGOstop is proud to present Inventive Genius a new sound collage.
2020-04-2900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art137: Warm, like a live rabbit
Robots made from human cells! Tap dancing! World War 2! Gossip Girl! Hockey! and much! much! more! stopGOstop presents, Warm, like a live rabbit, a new sound collage.
2020-04-2200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art136: How do you think I began in the world (part one and interlude)
The piece centers on the repetitive nature of daily life, and even when the world is fragmented, seemingly destroyed, there is hope that it can be repaired, and restored. Based on “The Sow took the Measles” a folk song from colonial New England. The original verse tells of Yankee practical idealism, of making good out of a bad situation.
Featuring field recordings, synthesized instruments, and digital signal manipulation.
This is part one and an interlude of an album of the same name. Please visit my bandcamp page to purchase the entire album.
how do you...2020-04-0900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art135: Small Things
As the world slides sideways, episode 135 of the podcast focuses on a collage of closeup and foley recordings, with occasional accompaniment by computer synthesized contrabass and tuba. The recordings include: opening a can of seltzer, pouring water, semi-rhythmic rubbing and tapping glass and cardboard, opening kitchen cabinet doors, futzing with a tape measure and cordless drill.
2020-03-2700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art134: What would be a better place
In an experiment on the Moon, Apollo 15 Commander David Scott, dropped a geological hammer and a falcon feather simultaneously*. I can’t imagine Galileo ever considered that his thought experiment would be realized, or maybe that’s what he was thinking about in the fall of 1609 when was looking at the moon through his telescope and created, in watercolor, the first realistic depictions of the moon in human history*.
Episode 134 of the podcast features recordings from the moon (Apollo/NASA), recordings from earth (boat ride, coffee shop, and driving on a highway), sounds made on my computer (a Ro...2020-02-2200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art133: What Became
A low rumble. A repetitive flute and then piano — moving slowly up and down, finding a path in through the dark night — the two play at the same time, not really together. A strumming rises and falls on the left. The tune is never playful, never mournful, not quit even, looking for its way. A held note, hoping to be propelled forward. Are those voices, is it a crowd? The harmonic shift keeps it from resolving. The nervous energy, the pace quickens, but somehow a moment of calm within the noise. The piano returns, still going up and down, spin...2020-01-3100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art132: Looped Behavior
The big bang, 1950’s dating advice, what it means to be popular, the death of capitalism, and much! much! more! — a new sound collage.
2020-01-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art131: Before they would return again
An old song on a computer generated piano; a theme from a 1950’s instructional video; miscellaneous bits, clicks and static; unintelligible voices; a river; a slow bell.
This episode continues to collage together samples and sounds as an accompaniment to a melody based on the folk songs, this episode features The Avondale Mine Disaster.
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If you liked this episode, you may al...2020-01-0500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art130: Oh, life is toil and love is trouble
An old song on a computer generated piano; field and foley recordings; miscellaneous bits and pieces of digital sounds; a sine waves; the ocean; a train.
Episode 130 of the podcast re-edits past episodes as an accompaniment to collaged piano based on the folk song The Housewife’s Lament.
2019-12-2100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art129: Does the Golden Record have an high quality inner sleeve?
The Golden Record! Gravity! Cassette tape navigation! Sound waves! old voicemails! hair care advice! Proper care for vinyl record! and more! stopGOstop presents Does the Golden Record have a high quality inner sleeve?, a new sound collage.
2019-12-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art128: The FloatAfter the destination has been set, after the engines have cut off, as the computers go into hibernation, you are in the void, the vast nothing. Space is big, mind-bogglingly big its…. nothing to do but wait. Episode 128, The Float, is part two of a multi-episode journey from Earth to the beyond, featuring field recordings, miscellaneous NASA sounds, and a few digital instruments.
2019-11-2500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art127: To the Future! To the Stars!
Part one of an odyssey from Earth to the beyond. The episode starts with a pre-launch check, liftoff, the melody of space flight, and continues with the sounds you thought you left behind, or are they memories, maybe you just need more vitamin B….what is it like to dream in space… does weightlessness effect the unconscious mind… No Praeterita! Ad Posterum! Ad Astra!
2019-11-1600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art126: Kitchen Mesa
A new composition for headphones featuring a field recording near the end of the Kitchen Mesa trail (Ghost Ranch, NM), slow midi-controlled tones, and percussive sounds made with an small Amazon box.
2019-10-2800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art125: 10-20-30Episode 125 is a new sound collage featuring Gregory Peck, Richard Feynman, a manipulated recording of mowing the grass with a hand mower, a binaural recording of the Hillcrest Farmers Market (San Diego) and the scientific method.
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2019-09-2900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art124: White Line Fever
This week on the podcast, the sounds and feelings of driving and driving and driving and driving and driving and driving and driving, while the mind wanders.
2019-09-0300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art123: Another exciting prospect
The history and environmental impacts of cement, mind-blowing theories about the universe, atomic testing at Bikini Atoll, the Chernobyl disaster, and much much more! stopGOstop is proud to present Another exiting prospect, a new sound collage.
2019-08-1700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art122: The ForestA slow circular conversation that occasionally paraphrases Shakespeare and Chekhov, to create a lamentation to work, aging and trying to talk to those around you. Featuring a binaural recording of a walk in Long Island City, Queens, and a quintet of midi-based instruments.
Is it a metal block, a helicopter overhead, the ocean flows in our veins, a single leaf without context, the hushed sounds of people talking, time travel is real, I am standing beside you, who are you? You breathe in, you breathe out, a long slow tone.
2019-07-2700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art121: A walk from Grand Central to Times Square (with a bit of yoga)A twenty-five minute binaural recording of a walk from Grand Central Terminal to Times Square. I was originally going to end the episode standing above Max Neuhaus: Times Square located between 45th and 46th in Midtown Manhattan, but it was the summer solstice, so they were doing yoga throughout the area. The specific grate that the piece radiates out from was covered with AV road cases.
2019-07-2000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art120: Under the CCPA ten minute binaural recording standing under the Cross County Parkway, with traffic singing above, a few cars passing in front, a sneeze, and the occasional sound of pages turning (I was reading Motherhood by Sheila Heti during the recording).
2019-06-2700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art119: Walking home from the mallA binaural recording of a walk from Cross County Mall to our house in Mount Vernon. An hour long walk through lower Westchester County, in the suburbs of New York City where my wife and I have lived for the last four years. I refereed to it as the Cross Country Mall in the recording… a verbal mistake I have made over and over again. A quick note: the next couple of episodes of the pod are going to focus on field recordings in the NYC region. A sort of tribute to the 13 years I have lived here as I...2019-06-2000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art118: It starts at the Atlantic
Episode 118 starts with a two minute recording of the Atlantic Ocean moves underground to the One train, traveling south in Manhattan, it continues with a recording of a desk chair being moved back and forth on linoleum, then the sounds of a resting steam engine, with an uptempo piano, and a slow and steady synth… a sixteen minute collage of synthesized sounds along side field and foley recordings, about motion, man-made and otherwise.
An extended version of this episode aired on July 21, 2019 as episode #683 of the Framework radio program. Please visit their website for the re...2019-06-0100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art117: A situation that should be approached with special attentionA new composition for headphones featuring field and foley recordings, counting and computer-based polyphonic synthesization.
2019-05-1900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art116: One-Seven
My thoughts aim west, combining a field recording made on the Los Angles Public Transportation’s Expo Line, with a new composition for computer generated piano, and small midi instrument ensemble. For download, here is the score for part one of the composition.
2019-04-1100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art115: If there’s still time, I’ll be ready at once.
A walk in the park; computer generated midi composition, sine waves, manipulations and miscellaneous signal processing; waiting for the snow to melt; doing laundry; thinking about The Cherry Orchard.
2019-03-0300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art114: Sonata for JHA drive to Peekskill, NY; fragments of 1950’s interstate highway propaganda films; a re-arrangement of a musical reflection of James Turrell; Episode 114 of the podcast is a new composition created from fragments, pieced together through careful listening and in the spirit of James Hutton (1726–1797), a Scottish farmer,self-trained naturalist and founder of modern geology.
2019-02-2100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art113: A rock, a man and a connection
Dinosaurs! Unit Vectors! Shotgun Microphones! Frankenstein in outerspace! and more! stopGOstop presents A rock, a man and a connection, a new sound collage.
2019-02-0900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art112: I can not shake the theory that something is going to happen
Dragnet! Apollo 11! George Kublers! the Lake Worth Monster! and more! stopGOstop presents I can not shake the theory that something is going to happen, a new sound collage.
2019-01-2300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art111: Mid-WinterThe dull edge, the slow night, the stoical tones, the long breath. In the middle of winter a new composition for computer-controlled sine waves and field recordings.
2018-12-2200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art110: The scale of the issue or the deepest shallow
stopGOstop presents The scale of the issue or the deepest shallow, an audio collage featuring recording about Charles Darwin, 4K televisions, the environment, materialism, the Cult of Pan, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more!!!!
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
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Don’t forget check out the footnotes for episode 110 and if you haven’t please subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or search for wanzel in your po...2018-12-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art109: A public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulationMoving in and out of public spaces, episode 109 of the podcast is a sound collage of binaural field recordings.
2018-12-0800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art108: PublicThis week the program pairs a composition I wrote while sitting in the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center with field recordings of riding public transportation in Los Angles.
2018-12-0100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art107: Santa Monica Pier
This week on the program a binaural field recording — a walk on the beach; under the pier; a few hundred yards and back again; up to the pier; watching the bumper cars, the roller coasters; a woman sings I’ve already made it.
2018-11-1200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art106: When I talk with Ivan I feel very goodThis week on the program, synchronicity, retcon (retroactive continuity), tracing your ancestry through DNA tests, and STS-131,the first space shuttle after the Columbia disaster and much much more!
stopGOstop presents an audio collage entitled When I talk with Ivan I feel very good.
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stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or search for wanzel in itunes...2018-10-1800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art105: A better place
This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A better place. Featuring recording about- aluminum, the history of cans, subscription model of capital, the economics of the an Anthropocene, and much much more
footnotes
2018-10-1100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art104: The best way to start the day
This week on the program… stopGOstop presents The best way to start the day. Featuring recording about- correlationism, how to write a novel, humans are not from earth, morning pages, and the invasion of Iraq.
footnotes
2018-08-0200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art103: Unknown Movement Underground
breaking apart concrete blocks, a bit of feedback, a slow sine wave melody, erosion, moving rocks into a bucket, turning a burner on to boil water, a model railroad train zipping around the track, sitting at a suburban restaurant owned by an astronaut.
2018-07-1600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art102: The Ruins of Morning1. (drawing a large circle on the stage with his staff)
2. Here I am and am no I. This circle in all, these change changing in winterless, a dawn with an image of, an autumn change with a change of mist.
3. A cotton manufacturer… who decided to forgo his old waterwheel and invest in a steam engine, erect a chimney and order coal from a nearby pit did not, in all likelihood, entertain the possibility that this act could have any kind of relationship to… Arctic sea ice…
The Tempest, Wm. Shakespeare
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
...2018-07-0700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art101: A welcome relief or an interruptionThis week on the program… stopGOstop presents A welcome relief or an interruption, an audio collage featuring recording about the National Interstate Defense and Highways, Pittsburgh, James Baldwin, Eisenhower, Mahler, field recordings, digital signal processing and and so much more!
Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.
2018-05-3100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art100: Spring #3
This week on the podcast the third of three new compositions for midi instruments and field recordings.
2018-05-0600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art099: Spring #2
This week on the podcast the second of three new compositions for midi instruments and field recordings.
2018-04-3000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art098: Spring #1
This week on the podcast the first of three new compositions for spring.
2018-04-2300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art097: A Coupled System
This week on the program… stopGOstop presents A Coupled System, a sound collage featuring recording about the fires, black holes and more.
2018-04-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art096: Songs of the DamnedThis week on the program… stopGOstop presents Songs of the Damned, an audio collage. Featuring recording about the American Empire, the Ice Age, Norman Rockwell, Magic the Gathering, the digital future and much much more!
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.
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If...2018-03-0100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art095: Trusting wholly to the loadstone
Episode 95 takes the speech and rhythmic patterns of episode 94, Arcadia, and uses it as data points, as signal to create voltage envelopes, as a way to create patterns and tones. The title is extracted from Thomas Moore’s Utopia, I have pasted a longer passage below.
They sailed before with great caution, and only in summer time; but now they count all seasons alike, trusting wholly to the loadstone, in which they are, perhaps, more secure than safe; so that there is reason to fear that this discovery, which was thought would prove so much to...2018-02-2000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art094: ArcadiaA sound collage featuring Space 1999, Vice President Wallace, Triangles, Gravity, and Bayes Rule alongside field recordings and digital signal manipulation.
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
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If you liked episode 94, you may also enjoy these past episodes:
Episode 078: …of Man
Part one, of the Leviathan trilogy, listens to the preparations for war, whale hunting, Pirate...2018-02-1100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art093: Field Notes
A collage of binaural and stereo field recordings: a walk near my house in Mount Vernon, NY; a recording from my backyard as I trim a few trees; a recording alongside the a man-made lake near Highway 44 in suburban St. Louis; a recording of a walk back to work after lunch; among others. The tones are made through using a tone gate on the recordings, so when the wind creates a bit of mic noise, it is joined by tones and cords.
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
http://www.stopgostop...2018-02-0400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art092: Unbalanced Force
This week on the program… stopGOstop presents Unbalanced Force, the second of a series of related episodes about the Moon. Featuring recording about- rotation in space, the circle of fifths, Pythagoras, the speed of the earth through the universe, the moon as a malfunctioning sun and much more.
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.
2018-01-2400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art091: Semi-Western GripThis week on the program… stopGOstop presents Semi-Western Grip, an audio collage about the truth and consequences of a moving frame of reference. This is the first of a pair of related podcasts about the Moon. Featuring recording about the moon, motorhomes, time and space, Australia, field recordings, tennis lessons, and so much more!
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
Here is a link to a playlist of the source material.
http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/91.mp3
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or sear...2018-01-1700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art090: This is the story of how one species changed a planetPart two of the mini-series collages the plight of humanity during end times capitalism through lectures, industry videos, and a sci-fi movie along with field recordings and digital signal processing. For further info please check out the footnotes.
2018-01-0500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art089: The hope that this would set them freePart one of the EndTimesCapitalism mini-series collages the eschatology of technology — Artificial Intelligence, the Big Bang, consequences of capitalism, and the sci-fi classic Dune alongside field recordings and digital signal processing. For further info please check out the footnotes.
2017-12-2700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art088: Finish lineAn eleven minute binaural recording from the finish line of the Sleepy Hallow Halloween 10k (pumpkin carved by my wife).
2017-11-2400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art087: Rosco White with a Half-Wax BlendRosco White with a Half-Wax Blend is a slow plotting quintet of sine wave-based software instruments. It concludes a trilogy of compositions that have thought about work and labor within a musical context. Each was scored for traditional instruments and then manipulated, collaged, and recombined. This score was for a brass ensemble, but its final instrumentation features resonant pure tones, with hits of the piano, base, or trombone folded into the waveform. In my mind, the resonance, and complexity of the tones equate to the perceived aftermath of work left in a room, both the immediate and long-lasting. For ex...2017-11-1100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art086: T.M.O.
The episode begins with low-slow-open synth sounds that form a disjointed, yet repetitive theme. Sonically the first section features two synths, both rich in delay and field manipulation. The second section expands on the themes, slowly at first, then accelerated, repeating with slight variations. It’s voiced by midi piano with a modest amount of synth within the reverberations. The third section partially incorporates these two modes, jumping from the singsong-wide synth sounds, to the rhythmic rolling piano pattern, beeping and repeating high notes, and ending with slow somber tones.
I have been thinking of the f...2017-10-3100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art085: A Durable Object
A new composition featuring a software orchestra, computer-controlled synthesizers, and processed field recordings. The piece fully embraces traditional scoring techniques, tonality, and meter. Sonically the midi-controlled flutes, English horn, violin etc. are paired with FM synthesis to create the instrumentation. This joins and coordinates the electronic and orchestral sounds (even though they are both manifestations of software). When composing I was thinking about the pace and regularity of the workday. The repetition of the musical themes with only slight variations; the strong half-note cascades; the low grumble of a time-stretched boat motor: all become stand-ins for the physic...2017-10-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art084: TowardsTowards, is to be listened to while at work – doing tasks that you may not want to do, or monotonous tasks you like. I would suggest gardening, raking leaves, doing dishes, cleaning the house, watching tv or balancing a budget.
Featuring binaural recordings of walking (in the woods, in a park, and on the train) alongside highly processed versions Chopin’s Nocturnes that have been stretched, collapsed and aggressively gated and EQ’d. The recording is just over 2 hours and 16 minutes in length.
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
Don’t forget to...2017-10-0800 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art083: A plot pickle or looking for a way out of the trouble we’re inThis week on the stopGOstop podcast… A plot pickle or looking for a way out of the trouble we’re in, an audio collage of a 1990 speech concerning the emerging field of climate change by Carl Sagan and the made for cable movie Deceptions (1990), accompanied by synthesizer and digital signal processing.
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
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Follow me on twitter @JohnWanze...2017-09-3000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art082: We will no not what will succeedThis week on the stopGOstop podcast… We will no not what will succeed, an audio collage of a 1988 interview with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clark, along side the 2017 media availability of Bill Belichick, accompanied by synthesizer.
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stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
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If you...2017-09-1900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art081: Soft Bodies
This week on the program… there are problems that we can foresee, those that we can prepare for, those that we can dodge, those we can predict… there are others that we cause ourselves, these, the self-inflected are often the hardest.
stopGOstop presents Soft Bodies, an audio collage about war, misfortune and disaster, mostly man-made. Featuring recording about the Challenger Disaster, the Dust Bowl, shipwrecks, resent and historic environmental collapse and of course atomic power.
http://www.stopgostop.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/081-soft_bodies-1.mp3
stopGOstop is produced by John Wanzel.
...2017-07-1400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art080: …of ImaginationThis week on the podcast, the exciting conclusion of special three part miniseries event, Leviathan. Part three…of Imagination, listens to Pirates! Whales! Secret Government Technology! Eldorado! Hobbes! Sound Collage! and Much! Much! More!
2017-06-3000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art079: …of SensestopGOstop is proud to present the second installment of a special three part miniseries event, Leviathan.
Part two, …of Sense, listens to World War III, the fundamental structure of natural law and Fargo, the whale dung sniffing dog, alongside field recordings, synthesizers and electroacoustic collage.
And don’t forget to stop back next week for the the exciting conclusion, …of Imagination, listens to Pirates! Secret Government Technology! Hobbes! Mars! and Much Much More!
2017-06-2300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art078: …of ManFor the next three weeks stopGOstop is proud to present a special three part miniseries event, Leviathan.
Part one, …of Man, listens to the preparations for war, whale hunting, Pirates! and the fear of a secret government, alongside field recordings, synthesizers and electroacoustic collage.
‘Tune in’ next week for part two, …of Sense, and in two weeks for the the exciting conclusion, …of Imagination. Pirates! Secret Government Technology! Hobbes! and Much Much More!
2017-06-1600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art077: Counterclockwise around the White HouseA stereo field recording from June 4, 2017 in Washington D.C.
The recording begins sitting in Lafayette Square, near the North Lawn of White House. I then walked counterclockwise around the grounds of the White House (north, west, south, east, north). There is an unusually amount interference in the recording, especially present near the South Gate (14:45). I can only assume it is from the surveillance and detection devices at the gate and around the White House. After I walk past the South Gate you can hear in the distance, just down Pennsylvanian Avenue, the finish line for the Girls...2017-06-1000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art076: Give it to him or not, as you please
This week on the program, listening to a lecture on dark matter, ideas about how to gain universal knowledge, field recordings and zombies! stopGOstop is pleased to present the new audio collage — Give it to him or not, as you please.
2017-05-2700 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art056: The Fantastic Race to WLUW
March 4, 2004 the blind spot radio program presented The Fantastic Race to WLUW.
Jacob Christopher, Jesse Seay, Jake Quickel, Richard Holland, and Brian Taylor (using different forms of transportation) raced to the radio station.
Hosted by Eric Humphrey and John Wanzel and produced by John Wanzel.
Blind Spot was founded in 2003 by Philip von Zweck and John Wanzel. In its two-year run on WLUW 88.7 Chicago, Blind Spot produced over 90 episodes of live experimental radio. The website for the program is old, incomplete and outdated. I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s and...2016-08-2100 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art051: Twilight of the Idols
On January 15, 2006, the Blind Spot radio program aired Twilight of the Idols, an experimental narrative that revolved around the CIA, the end of the world, Miami Vice fan-fiction, Nietzsche and Kelly Clarkson.
Featuring the voice talents of Anna Clark, Eric S. Humphrey, Peter Rosenbloom, and John Wanzel, engineered by Philip von Zweck, produced and written by Peter Rosenbloom and John Wanzel.
Blind Spot was founded in 2003 by Philip von Zweck and John Wanzel. In its two-year run on WLUW 88.7 Chicago, Blind Spot produced over 90 episodes of live experimental radio. The website for the program is o...2016-03-1300 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art045: Night of 3000 Balloons
On January 9, 2005, the blind spot radio program filled the on-air studio with as many balloons as Eric, Jake and I could blow up (which happened to be 1,190) and then entered the room and popped them one at a time with a needle taped to a stick.
Conceived by Eric Humphrey and John Wanzel. Performed by Jake Quickel and Eric Humphrey, engineered and produced by John Wanzel.
This is the first time the complete recording of the program is available. I had hoped to fill the studio with 3,000 balloons, but my budget and the 2 h...2016-01-1000 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art040: How to Kill a Yeti (part 1)
This week on the program- writers block, excel, and drawing a link between Atari and using drones in battle – a fictional conversation entitled How to Kill a Yeti. Featuring field recordings, singing, digital signal processing and the voice talents of Brian Taylor and John Wanzel, it was written and produced by John Wanzel.
2015-11-2400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art029: September 11: A Musical
The third in the ad hoc War Trilogy, September 11: A Musical first aired on the Blind Spot radio program in 2005. A historical experimental musical drama that portrays a twelve hour period from September 11, 2001 (in both Chicago and the East Coast). Featuring the talents of Jenny Walters, Eric Humphrey, Julia Klein, Sonia Yoon, Jacob Christopher, Michelle Dahlenburg and Philip von Zweck. Written, composed and produced by John Wanzel.
2015-05-2200 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art028: For the Country Entierly
For the Country Entirely is a sonic re-staging of the Gertrude Stein short story of the same name. The piece is voiced by Anna Benavides, Brian Taylor and John Wanzel. Sounds and text were arranged and edited by John Wanzel.
The piece was created for Erik Belgum’s softpalate in celebration of the roughly 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein’s Geography and Plays. This piece and five others were released in around 2002 on ubu web.
2015-05-1600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art027: DDAY60
The beach, bombs, parachutes, gunfire and a song. The 24 hours of the D-Day invasion has been compressed into one.
The second in the ad hoc War Trilogy- DDAY60 first aired on The 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion (June 2004) as part of the Blind Spot radio program. Featuring the voices of John Wanzel and Brian Taylor with Peter Rosenbloom on cello and Jacob Christopher on computer, engineered by Philip von Zweck, written, composed and produced by John Wanzel.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via this link RSS, or search for wanze...2015-05-1500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art026: The Omega Banker
In the future… Charlton Heston’s unfrozen head is the last banker in a communists dystopia; a story about studdering, language and new years; interviews about the United States; a song about jetpacks.
The Omega Banker first aired in July of 2000 on the Something Else ( WLUW 88.7 Chicago 1995 – 2010), hosted by Philip von Zweck . It is the first of the ad hoc War Trilogy. I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s and re-releasing them on the podcast.
The piece features the voice talents of Jen Crouse, Carrie Harold, Doug McHoney, and John Wanzel. It...2015-05-0500 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art023: I haven’t been to Philidephia, it’ll be alright
The third work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, I haven’t been to Philidephia, it’ll be alright, was produced in 2004 for the Blind Spot radio program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the voice talents of Eric Humphrey, Brian Taylor and Carolina Wheat. Engineered by Philip von zweck. Written, composed and produced by John Wanzel.
I am repackaging a few radio works from the 2000’s and re-releasing them on the podcast. A version of I haven’t been.. was written as a website in 2003 for a now defunct web-zine, I have posted the original html here.
2015-04-1400 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art022: Cardiac Lincoln
A story about love and the 16th president of the United States. Cardiac Lincoln is the second work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging some of my older work as part of this podcast.
It was originally written and preformed in 2003. This recording is from a slightly revised version that was produced in 2005 for the Blind Spot Radio Program, wluw 88.7 Chicago. Featuring the talents of Brian Taylor, Eric Humphreys, Jake Quickel, Lisa Miller and Jenny Walters. Composed, written and produced by John Wanzel.
2015-04-0600 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art021: PEAR
The first work in the ad hoc Young Love Trilogy, a repackaging of old work for the stopGOstop podcast.
Pear is an experimental sound piece for radio that consists of a series of narrative and sonic vignettes. The piece is concerned in general with how despair and desire effect the creation of a self that is mediated by personal and cultural experience. The text material for the project was produced by answers to fill-in-the-blank workbooks, as well as writings influenced by sections of St. Augustine’s Confession, Soren Kierkegaard’s A Sickness unto Death, and Soph...2015-03-2900 minstopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art020: Microlandscapes
A rebroadcast of the Blind Spot radio program from December 11, 2005, and evening of landscapes, some real, some imagined. Microlandscapes features the talents of Richard Holland, Anna Clark, Peter Rosenbloom, Eric Humpherys, Brian Taylor, Philip von Zweck, and John Wanzel.
I am re-releasing some old sound work from the 2000’s on this podcast along side new field recordings and sound art.
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