Field Coverage, AKA Reality Tribute Band by GYØ Ben, teucer, Lincøln, Jellybean of Thark, Tøm, Optical Dave
August 29th, 2008 4:44 PM- split up your group into two equal teams.
- agree on how many field recordings each group will generate. (something from 2-5)
- reconvene and exchange field recordings.
- each team will produce a "cover" of the other's tracks.
- submit the set of all sounds here
One day while a bunch of players were all talking about random stuff with other SFØ players on the Skype™ machine, it is discovered that Lincoln has been trying to get teams together to do Field Coverage for quite awhile, but with very few players in LAØ he was meeting with relatively little success. When he was last in San Francisco and he was in a large group of players and the goal was tasking, he tried to get the group to give this task a shot, but there was no structure to the time he was there, and the group of players failed to do any tasks really.
The conversation on Skype™ turned to recording sounds, ambient sounds and such like that, and Lincoln mentioned that he still had this task that was burning a hole in his to do page.
So a plan was quickly devised.
1. There would be two teams, one from the US, and one from the UK, each consisting of four players.
2. Each player would go out and find one minute's worth of ambient sound and record it.
3. The only rule for the initial recordings was that none of the sounds could be self-generated.
4. All of the recordings would be brought back to the task proof page and uploaded within 48 hours.
5. At the 48 hour mark, each team would then decide amongst themselves who would cover which sound.
6. Each of the team members would then take their chosen sound and go and find or create a suitable cover.
7. There are no limits to how the cover could be achieved except that no part of the original could be used.
8. The final covers would need to be uploaded here within another 48 hours.
It should also be noted that while we've split into teams, this is not a competition, so please, no wagering. Thank you.
The teams:
Team USA
Lincoln
C.M.
Doktor Harmon
Team UK
GYØ Ben
GYØ Tom
Flash Harry
Now it's time to reveal that many many participants in this challenge failed. The only two players that got both their feild recording and their cover done on time were LAØ. But since we created the rules, it's only fair that we should be allowed to break them as well, right? So just ignore rule number 8. Also, I think only Flash Harry and Ben were able to get their originals done on time, and was only able to get his because we forced him to do it while we were chatting on Skype™ and he only got it done by luring Tom into a sneaky trap.
So, because this is not a competition, it doesn't matter who turned in what on time or late, so now, for some pleasant sounding sounds:
The recordings:
Lincoln
Flash Harry's cover
File oddly broken on SFZero, listen here.
C.M.
GYØ Ben's cover
Doktor Harmon
Tom's cover
GYØ Ben
Doktor Harmon's cover
GYØ Tom
C.M.'s cover
Flash Harry
Lincoln's cover
Meanwhile in Glendale
Lincoln's Field Recording
I just opened a play, and right before curtain call, I put my recorder out in the house. This is one of the minutes that was recorded. I start you off a few moments before then end of the play.
Dok H's field recording
A minute of the joyful noise heard wandering around Nickelodeon Universe (formerly Camp Snoopy), the amusement park inside the Mall of America.
GYØ Ben's Field Recording
Simply recorded a Skype "conversation" with GYØ Tom. I asked him for ideas on how to complete this task. Inspired by Lincoln.
Flashy's Recording
Apologies for the near-silence, but this is the ambient sound of a back garden in New Bradwell, apparently Suburb of Infinite Quietness.
Real Life Acapella cover of Tom's
C.M. for some reason thought recreating all the sounds himself would be best.
Ben's Cover
All the sounds in this recording were also made a capella, and as I picked up more and more sounds of the people talking, I started to notice that this recording was becoming a *teensy* bit racist, and more and more like an episode of South Park.
Lincoln's Cover
I put Flash Harry's recording on my iPhone and headed down to the beach where I found a little cave in the rocks to hide from the sound of the surf a little, and then hit record and I clicked rocks together every time there was a click in the original recording. At the point where it gets louder (for whatever reason) I climbed out of the cave and gave a good "view" of the surf. I turned the sounds of a boring night in the UK with all artificial sounds into an all natural California surf experience.
Dok H's cover
I found that the part of GY0 Ben's recording with the strange and clearly unplanned percussion had some really neat rhythms - so I banged the camera (with its mic going) against various things and sampled that into a similar percussive performance.
Flashy's Cover
Originally, I was going to sing for this myself, then some part of my brain told me it'd be a better idea to put it through a speech synthesiser, then alter it to fit the timing. After I had destroyed and rebuilt it with Audacity, the result sounded like I had covered Lincoln's song with a hive of demon bees. So, naturally, I kept it. Applause and music at the end courtesy, and probably copyright, Haberley and Turisas. (file broken, for some reason)
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I'll do it for you. That was my favorite part.
Well done gentlemen.
An excellent completion of a fantastic task.
I want to vote for Ben's a capella cover of my recording.
Can I do that?
Where do I do that? Ben? Ben?