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World​-​Class Technology - Painted Rocks

from 1983​-​2002 by Larry Wendt

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Painted Rocks
On a long ride on a Greyhound Bus home from Yosemite National Park, I had the good fortune to sit by someone who had worked as a sort of "grip" and set crew worker on the classic, 1974 Jack Web TV series, Sierra, which followed the adventures of a group of crime-fighting forest rangers in a fictional US National Park. The exterior scenes were actually filmed in Yosemite. The series lasted for eleven episodes. This previous employee of Jack Web Productions told me a long and convoluted story about how he used to have to paint the rocks in the area that they were filming in to match (in terms of color, shading, texture, etc.) the rocks which they had previously filmed in. I wish I had recorded him speaking at that time to capture his monologue. I tried to write it down later but I could not remember all the details of the narrative thread. However, I used the text which I wrote as a template to extract random phonemes that I then manually collected and made a recording of me speaking from the list. I also did a reading of a completed text and processes it through a simple audio gate using a loop of tape with various lengths of blank leader spliced into sections of magnetic tape. I ran my reading several times through this loop and recorded the results on multiple tracks that were mixed down to a stereo field. In this way, I built up a fragmented narrative of bits of words and phrases that never reveal a perceived storyline. I also included a recording (which was also processed) of a group and teenagers walking near the trailer I was staying at when I was in Yosemite. It had snowed earlier and melted and the sounds of their voices and the sounds of their galoshes scraping in the slush echoed off the granite rock walls of the valley. The various layers of sounds were then mixed to form a synthetic acoustical landscape with coincidental similarities to some natural soundscape.

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from 1983​-​2002, released May 2, 2023

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