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In Our Dream Department Store (Ask Me I Might Go​)​-​[​disquiet0038​-​asrealasitgets2]

from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2012 by Mark Rushton

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"Artificial Field Recording" - I decided to interpret this as constructing a field recording of an alleged department store from non-specific elements of what a field recording of a department store or retail space would typically have.

The basis for this piece, In Our Dream Department Store (Ask Me I Might Go), is a Google Voice message from a friend who was demonstrating a noise canceling microphone for cell phones called "The Boom". They're expensive. He was outdoors between two buses that were loudly idling and wanted to know what it sounded like. I've got to admit, it sounds like a fantastic microphone. Much of the noise wasn't heard by me, although he had no way of telling this as the sound of the idling buses was a monstrous roar to his ears. Some of the sound did leak through as he got too close to the buses. About half the samples were from this voicemail.

From there, I used numerous past recordings to fill in the sound.

One sample was of the natatorium where I swim laps. It's the part where you can hear a woman singing. The speakers are four stories up and the space is quite cavernous.

Another sample is from a few years back when my wife and I pushed our youngest daughter on a small metal merry go round in a park. The recorder was placed under the ride. That's the sound you might think of as an escalator in the middle in the recording.

Also mixed in more deeply is a field recording of a political caucus.

The rest are a bunch of different synth sounds recorded over the years to simulate phones, bar code readers, intercom alerts, and air conditioning systems.

The title is comprised of parts of lyrics from Bill Nelson's "The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store" and David Sylvian's "Late Night Shopping".

This Disquiet Junto project was done in association with the exhibit As Real As It Gets, organized by Rob Walker at the gallery Apex Art in Manhattan (November 15 - December 22, 2012):

apexart.org/exhibitions/walker.php/

More on this 37th Disquiet Junto project at:

disquiet.com/2012/09/20/disquie…8-asrealasitgets2/
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More details on the Disquiet Junto at:

Disquiet Junto - soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/info/

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from Mark Rushton - Disquiet Junto - 2012, released April 7, 2014

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I make way too much electronic music. Mostly ambient, some beat-driven.

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