Uncle Nobody Productions - Sound Dialogue One

Sound Dialogue One

Sound Dialogue One: involving Bret Ellerton and Michael Andrew Doherty

RULES FOR DIALOGUE

1) Listen to the preceeding part first before beginning your part. Use the preceeding part (or parts) as an inspiration or leaping point for your part (just like in conversation). Parts can be short – probably better to keep it simple - but do what you want.

2) Participants may determine whether their part is “closed” or “open” for additions in further exchanges. “Closed” means that the part is finished and no additions can be made to it.

3) You can use any part of previous parts (e.g. notes or sounds) for your own part – like theme and variation, remixing, or other such recycling, regardless of their status as “closed” or “open”.

4) Before sending it back to me make sure your part is finished – mixed etc for final production – this will simplify the whole process.

5) It might be good for us to keep notes on each part and title them for lack of confusion. – dated with instrument and process description.

Part One: Bret Ellerton

Part One: Grey Sky Wet Roads Fall Colored Fields and Electricity

Recorded guitars on September 10, 2005. Recorded AM radio static and manipulated it with reverbs, other effects, and on board eq Thor’s day October 20, 2005. Part Status: Closed

Part Two: Michael Andrew Doherty

Part Two: Wet Sky Forest A Voice

Phonographic rain piece from forest floor near Chapel Hill, N.C. Nov 24, 2005. Tilaphone w/fx, dhol(drum), lap harp, and duduk, Recorded Dec 2005. Status on Part: Closed

Part Three: Bret Ellerton

Part Three: Alleyways Hold Hidden Beauty The Pulse of a City

Ambient sound recordings of four different alleyways in Seattle, Washington -mid January 2006 - manipulated rhythmically via computer. Hand drums, xylophone, sequential circuits six track, and reintroduction of some chords from part one – Recorded late January 2006. Status on Part: Closed

Part Four: Michael Andrew Doherty with additions by Bret Ellerton

On a Snowy Day Elements of Sun Drenched Earth and Rain Soaked Forest

Phonographic elements: Rain piece from forest floor near Chapel Hill, N.C., a piece recorded on the ruins of a late mid-Pueblo period site in Spring of 2006 in central New Mexico, and a recording of cicadas, crickets, and other insects in Denver, Summer 2006. Turkish ney, tuning forks, hand drums, dhol, pitched tile fragments, Tilaphone, and bass duduk. Recorded November 29, 2006. The part is open after the 5 minute mark. Bret added acoustic guitar washes and vocals with a drum and one bass note past the five minute mark. Recorded in September 2007.

Part Five: Bret Ellerton

Like Water Poured Into Water

Part Five – Bret Ellerton Title: Like Water Poured Into Water – Skin as Rain as Road as River Description: Field Recordings from: The Green River, Washington Feb 23, 2007(manipulated to rise in surges), Spokane Falls Washington -2007 (manipulated by isolating various frequencies and composing them via computer), rainfall from a variety of places in Seattle in the years of 2007 and 2008, water sounds from the Icicle Trail near Leavenworth Washington 2007, various alleyway activity downtown Seattle Washington 2007 – 08, and I-5 Highway at the Denny Street overpass in Feb 07 and March 08. Other performance elements include metal bowls and gongs, and voice. There is also reintroduction of segments from previous parts 2, 3 and 4 of above sound dialog. Status: Closed