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.