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Heard: At Once - Portland Headligght

From: Rob Rosenthal
Length: 09:03

An audio composition featuring the foghorn of Portland Headlight. Read the full description.

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Playing: Heard: At Once - Portland Headligght
From: Rob Rosenthal

Default-piece-image-0 The drone of a foghorn, a sound that is embedded in the sonic landscape of Maine. We experience the sound of a lighthouse foghorn as a monosyllabic tone played again? again?again? Our listening experience is informed, in part, by our location in relation to the horn and by the rhythm of the drone. What if we were able to break from these constraints and the foghorn was heard at once, from several locations? "Heard: At Once ? Portland Headlight" is the first in a series of audio compositions featuring "remixed" environmental field recordings. In this piece, the horn is heard and reheard simultaneously along with all of the sounds of the "biophony" surrounding the lighthouse: waves, channel buoys, airplanes, birds, and passing ships. The audio was Recorded May 28, 2002 at various points along the rocky shore of Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. This piece aired on WMPG-FM.

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Piece Description

The drone of a foghorn, a sound that is embedded in the sonic landscape of Maine. We experience the sound of a lighthouse foghorn as a monosyllabic tone played again? again?again? Our listening experience is informed, in part, by our location in relation to the horn and by the rhythm of the drone. What if we were able to break from these constraints and the foghorn was heard at once, from several locations? "Heard: At Once ? Portland Headlight" is the first in a series of audio compositions featuring "remixed" environmental field recordings. In this piece, the horn is heard and reheard simultaneously along with all of the sounds of the "biophony" surrounding the lighthouse: waves, channel buoys, airplanes, birds, and passing ships. The audio was Recorded May 28, 2002 at various points along the rocky shore of Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. This piece aired on WMPG-FM.