It's my own personal history project stretching back to 2007 - with hundreds of recorded interviews, podcasts and plays. This section of the site is pretty old so don't expect it to work all the time and ignore it asking for Real Player to be loaded.
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Submitted sound art for the Art in Liverpool FM project
Taken from Music for the Williamson Tunnels CD
Drop (2006) was a major live electro-acoustic work composed entirely from the sights and sounds of dripping water by this Milwaukee-based composer
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As original translator of Apollinaire's Calligrammes, Oliver kindly recorded this new reading of Il pleut (It's raining) for the Collection. Link
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
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The impotent ranting of a frustrated sound designer who is perpetually at odds with the demands of society.
Dan Wilson
A prolific inventor of sound-emitting devices, Canadian artist and technician Le Caine (1914-1977) composed his Dripsodies in one night using only the sound of a single drop of water falling into a bucket, re-recorded at different speeds. Link
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn - Chapter II (baptism)
Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn - Chapter I (absinthe)
Jeff Young and Alan Dunn compiled from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water - Link
A founding member of The Pogues, it is Jem's more recent works that resonate here, specifically Score for a hole in the ground (2006). Located in a Kent forest, it is a simple structure, inspired by the suikinkutsu water chimes of Kyoto, that amplifies water dripping down a well. It is also conceptually a trilogy of approaches to the sound of dripping water - as natural environmental sound, as rhythm and as ritualistic performance prop. Water and Birds #1 comes from 2005.
Track taken from Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
In 1989 The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliett) explored the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York. Rain Delay is from the 1990 CD Troglodyte’s Delight (¿What next?).
Music For The Williamson Tunnels: A Collection Of The Sound Of Dripping Water
As Brian Eno made music for environments rather than from them (Music For Airports) these CDs are best listened to within the strange damp world of the Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool. The ceilings of these caverns are thin and the sound of dripping water can frequently be heard, but not necessarily seen. It is a sound that has intrigued artists for nigh on a century and this collection brings together historical pieces alongside new compositions from artists who have expanded that first single drip: Link
Eimer combs the city in search of particuLar pockets or channels of sound, positioning herself within these acoustic asides she explores the way that sound is sculpted by both the built environment and its inhabitants. We find ourselves privy to a singular experience of the city exploring the movement and interaction of its inhabitants. in composing the piece specifics are avoided, sentences are cut short and obvious references discarded in favour of ambiguous, atmospheric and spot sounds that describe the play of the city.