Walking Festival of Sound Art, 2023

11 ECHOES

Location: Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Thomas Stanley and Mark Cooley
Thomas Stanley and Mark Cooley
Stanley and Cooley have worked together at George Mason for almost 20 years. Their experimental music collaborations have been featured in performance and on record.

George Mason University Sound Art Students | Final Projects | AVT374.001

The sound art students of AVT 374 have created a GPS-assisted virtual sound art festival. To participate you need only install the app, insert your earbuds, and find our sounds!

Original audio works by: 01) Celeste Cortes 02) Amani Jefferson 03) Kevin Jones 04) Lexie Keys 05) Bianca Misterio 06) Will Owens 07) Kelsey Pappas 08) Noah Schieber 09) Sara Syarto 10) Diana Vargas Antezana 11) Marcos Velasco 12) Becca Williams

supervised by Professor Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat Sound)

"The soundscape makes accessible, audible and thinkable, alternative states of affairs that allow us to rethink and relive the materiality and semantics of the real world through the possibility of sonic life-worlds that include affection, sentiment, fear, and angst and all those things that fall out of objectivity." -- Salomé Voegelin

Final Project (Sara Syarto, 5:12)

Even after a couple years of returning to college in person, it never ceases to amaze me what being in good company can do for a person. As an assignment for class we were trying to rewire children’s toys to make new sounds. Unfortunately we didn’t have the most luck with what we were using, but I took clips from this experience of attempted distortion and created my own. Through much trial and error we found more ways to distort the programed sounds and create sounds of our own. To me it reflected my own journey through this class. I had no idea how to use an audio editor before this class and by the end I have managed to create something completely new using my own audio recordings. It’s very humbling to be a part of this, and I thank you for taking the time to listen.

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"Final Project" (Marcos Velasco, 3:49)

Expect the unexpected and go with the flow. One will need to get accustomed to change in order to change themselves. University life can be some of the best or nothing years of your life and and it all depends on how you roll with the punches. This sound composition is a mixed bag of artificial and ethereal soundscapes which coexist in a strange middleground; when they're not fighting for dominance, anyway. All sounds are sourced either from the internet or recorded by myself. Artwork is from myself as well.

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"Final Project" (Kelsey Pappas, 3:45)

For my final I wanted to explore how to create suspense using no tracks with musicality. So I chose to audibly illustrate a scene of someone locking down their home while receiving an emergency radio broadcast. They then begin to hear knocking at the windows and doors. And after the constant knocking, one door opens. To end the study/scene there is a woman's scream.

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"Vivian" (Kevin Jones, 3:45)

This is an attempt to flesh out the exuberance and ramblings of youth. She doesn't know exactly what she's saying, but she knows she means it. I respect that.

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"Final Project" (Celeste Cortes, 13:05)

New Collection

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Барабанщик Із Шумом У Вухах (Noah Schieber, 3:19)

possible headache warning Be aware: this piece has sounds that cause the ringing of the ears to trigger. Tinnitus is when one hears a constant buzzing or ringing in the ears. This could be caused by repeated exposure to loud noises.Young musicians (percussionists especially) tend to develop this condition after not caring for their ears when exposed to constant sharp sounds.

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"The End" (Bianca Misterio, 4:42)

“The End” by Bianca Misterio I started playing with a synth and unwittingly created a robot that was slowly coming to life in the middle of a desolate wasteland; it finds another companion, but then they both break down and cease to exist. People say our technological overlords are coming to overtake us and might outlast us, but I don’t believe that to be entirely true. All things end, including the creation of technology that was supposedly meant to last us a lifetime and beyond. With that idea in mind, I created this piece for anyone to walk through that wants to find comfort in the end of things.

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"Off" (Amani Jefferson, 2:31)

Walking to your destination, well aware of where you're going. Zoned out but listening to the madness within your head. The clock is ticking and the voice are coming; running in your head as it plays. You'll let it play but not for long because you have the ability to turn it off.

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"Debt Collector" (Lexie Keys, 3:27)

You have become a little too compulsive and reckless. Was it time and money well spent? Now It's time to pay your dues. Listen carefully as you take this trip.

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"Filestream" (Will Owens, 2:10)

There are very few places on campus where that big antenna with the red light is not visible. That thing, and all the other antennae around here too, is surely spitting out incredible amounts of data all of the time. If you could hear it all at the same time, maybe this is what it would sound like.

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"Unorganic" (Becca Williams, 9:57)

With my soundwalk piece Unorganic, I wanted to captivate the listener in sounds of metallic, unnatural, or inorganic sounds that felt synthesized and man-made, as they walk in through the outdoors, surrounded by nature and organic life. There is beauty in the contrast of man-made and nature-made art, and I wanted to capture how these two opposites complement each other through the media of sound.

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