An attempt at a sort of surrealistic film soundtrack, merging foley sounds, dialogue, and “score.”
Acoustic / environmental / vocal sounds were recorded using a portable minidisc recorder, in several Pittsburgh locations including: a small independently-operated candy store off of a major street, a small pizza joint off of a major street, the “Pleiades” Dark Piece by James Turrell, installed at the Mattress Factory from 2002 to 2003, The Andy Warhol Museum, and a few random street exteriors. The footsteps are those of Melinda Kate Cross. The voices are those of (in order of appearance): Melinda Kate Cross, an unidentified cashier, a random shortwave broadcast, and an unidentified customer at the small pizza joint off of a major street. The whistling is that of Steve Mokris.
The electronic sounds are courtesy a Casio Toy Keyboard that Chris Wright and I disassembled and rewired one afternoon.
A Really Old Shortwave Radio also makes a brief appearance.
Oh! You know what! It's one of those things!
$2.59!
So they stick on your teeth...
but they're good!
Oh! They have two-headed ones!
(shortwave radio broadcast excerpt, in Spanish)
Thank you!
(laughing)
If you can't have some fun...
It's just better havin' fun in life, huh!
um... yeah...
Hell yeah!
steveMokris-ifYouCantHaveSomeFun-1.00.mp3 — 3,424 KiB — 2005 spring
- Sony ECM-717 Microphone and Sharp Minidisc Recorder
- Casio Toy Keyboard
- Really Old Shortwave Radio
- Gadget Labs Wave/8.24
- Sound Forge 7.0
- Cakewalk Sonar 4