Audio for walking & amusement, video for thinking about sounds and music

[jesse_the_k]

Take A Walk

on spotify

apple podcasts

on YouTube, with colorful abstract motion graphics

This lovely 32-minute audio offers walking talk from a wide range of people and places. There’s a parent walking with her just-learning-to-talk-toddler. Disabled walkers include a guide-dog handler and a wheelchair user. An astronaut talks space walk, an adventurer walks up Kilimanjaro, and a drum majors twirls his way forward. It showed up as the latest 99% Invisible https://99pi.org episode this week, but it’s part of the Fall 2020 issue of Pop-Up Magazine.

https://www.popupmagazine.com/watch/

This issue combines film, sound, photography and music. I loved all of it; some of it’s mind-blowing.

[Closer Captions]

Deaf artist Christine Kim Sun focuses on sound in her work. Here she writes a poem about one day, creating the kinds of captions she’d like to see instead of boring tags like [music]. There’s only ambient sound in this, since Christine presents in ASL with open captions.

direct link

Watch on YouTube

Check out her other stuff at https://christinesunkim.com/works/

BBC sound effects archives.

Sixteen thousands sound effects in WAV files available for personal, educational or research purposes. I’ve missed the homely mechanical sound of a little hammer bashing a copper bell. Here are 115 loops associated with telephones-- dialing, rings, answer machine tones at https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?q=telephones

Comments

[sonia]

Thanks for the links! Wow, Closer Captions was captivating! And thought-provoking.

I didn't poke at the sound archives but I might post my own link to them so I can find them again later! Good to know they exist.