Field Mic

I’m coordinating a game of Exquisite Sound Corpse over on Twitter & Soundcloud. Follow #ExquisiteSndCorpse and me, @cranksatori, on Twitter for updates.

Exquisite Sound Corpse:

The first participant will create a recording of two minutes or less, and then cut off the last three seconds and post that file to their Soundcloud account. The next participant will then use that three seconds to start a recording of two minutes or less, cut off the last three seconds, and post it to their Soundcloud account for the next person, and so on until the last participant has finished their individual sections. Once everyone has finished their tracks, all participants will post their full tracks to their individual Soundcloud accounts, and I will combine the end results into one playlist.

All tracks will be tagged: “Exquisite Sound Corpse” and “Exquisite Sound Corpse Round XXX” on Soundcloud

Participants for Round One volunteered between 10 to 11 PM CST on Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 and consist of the following individuals:

@AndOtherness  @tinypyramids  @MintcakeTime  @cinchel  @postsilence  @WhalesOfJupiter  @disquiet  @stringbot

If all goes well, I’ll put out the call for Round Two when the first round is finished, so there should be more opportunities to participate as things progress.

When peacocks shiver their tail feathers, it’s not just that rustling sound they’re making. Some researchers found that they’re making an ultrasonic noise so low-pitched we can’t hear it, even though it’s about as loud as a car going past just a few feet away. The researcher who discovered this said he “got the idea when he visited a local zoo and saw a peacock shaking its tail at a concrete wall. Initially baffled, he realised that the huge tail looked a bit like a satellite dish, and wondered if the bird was listening to itself.”

Jennifer Cantwell. Letter home, 2011