I debated wether or not to upload a photo with this post since the snapshots are supposed to be audio… but I did anyways. I love taking pictures and I have for as long as I can remember. More and more tho I am aware of how visually literate our culture is and how illiterate we are when it comes to sound. With that in mind I have started trying to take “snapshots” with my digital recorder more often. I want to see if in 20 years they describe events, places, people etc as well as photos do now.
It just so happens these first ones are musical, i’ll try to add more atmospheric/environmental ones later.
We just got back from salvation mountain and we got to meet leonard who built/builds it.
He sang us a song he wrote in his “igloo” which you can find on that flickr set. I think the accoustics of this recording describe it nicely.
http://typenerd.com/goods/mp3/flower_tree_and_you.mp3
Later that evening my friends saw a small owl by the shore of the salton sea, and decided to play a song for it, the owl flew away when disturbed by the train that runs right by the camp ground.