“Working the way I do, the final narrative is a total surprise, even to me.”
The Oracle actually started at this pump house down by the Superfund site after a hard summer rain…
Neon took this video while we were on one of our daily walks. Looped several times, birds and all, this audio is the drone repeating beneath everything you hear in the Oracle Line transmission. Can you pick it out?
Though close to us, the trail leading up to this spot had been closed for construction forever — so we didn’t know this building was back there. Strolling down the fresh path, through a winding wetland that feeds into the Raccoon River, we suddenly heard the CRAZIEST SOUNDS on the wind and had to investigate.
We make audio recordings around town constantly, actually, and are always listening for neat stuff. I told you about the singing sluice actuator down by the dam, right?:
(*I have devastating news that they replaced this singing pipe earlier this spring. Another song bites the dust!!!)
Anyway, so this habit of collecting field audio comes in handy when you’re building sonic landscapes—
Here’s a summary of how I intentionally lose control of the project from here and let it guide me into discovery:
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