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.
See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation.
For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.
Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.
