The Sound of Hurricane Gustav Reaching the Coast of Louissianna as Recorded from My Backyard...

The Sound of Hurricane Gustav Reaching the Coast of Louisiana as Recorded from My Backyard, and Re-Imagined for Northeastern Ohio.

manipulated sound and objects
I recorded The Sound of Hurricane Gustav Reaching the Coast of Louisiana, at 5:45 am on Sept. 1st 2008. I made this recording from my backyard in Northeastern Ohio. I did this by following its progress on television, and when I saw the storm reach the coast I went out my back door and recorded its impact. This recording sounded like crickets and other pre-dawn insects.
I looped and manipulated this sound, adjusting the resonance of the frequency until it sounded like massive wind gusts and hurricane force winds, and recorded a live track of this performance. This is the sound accompanying the warning beacon, whose rotating top triggers a light sensor. This warning gives bursts of electricity to a propeller, which blows the water in dog bowl in a circular motion. This motion is set against a laminated picture of the Cleveland night skyline. I was not trying to recreate Gustav, but to imagine a hurricane in my own backyard.

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• conceptual
• art
• installation art
• kinetic
• sculpture

[evoBOT2006]

wtf,,lol

[limenlimpidgreen]

Wow, this is really bizarre. I was wondering why I was seeing a picture of Cleveland...glad of the description.