Go outside. Shut the door.
Sep 24, 2023, 11:27 AM
This was recorded in 1981, in my bedroom at my parents' house. The synth is an ARP Solus overdubbed two or three times on a broken cassette deck. I was obsessed with Brian Eno's "Discreet Music" (obviously) at the time. Equally obvious: the title of this track is taken from an Oblique Strategies card (Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's deck of "over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas").
Most of the other sounds are from an elementary school recess across the street from my house. You can also hear wind chimes from my patio. Unfortunately, also audible is the woman next door yelling at her child for 10 seconds or so. This was not planned. Other than the latter, I used to find the sounds of the kids playing across the street to be soothing. I was working long hours at a record store all day, then going to see live music at night, and was often sleep-deprived. I recall taking naps in the middle of the day, and falling asleep to the sounds of the school yard and the wind chimes, as well as light airplanes overhead (Long Beach Airport was just west of our home).
Recorded by Funharm.
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
Most of the other sounds are from an elementary school recess across the street from my house. You can also hear wind chimes from my patio. Unfortunately, also audible is the woman next door yelling at her child for 10 seconds or so. This was not planned. Other than the latter, I used to find the sounds of the kids playing across the street to be soothing. I was working long hours at a record store all day, then going to see live music at night, and was often sleep-deprived. I recall taking naps in the middle of the day, and falling asleep to the sounds of the school yard and the wind chimes, as well as light airplanes overhead (Long Beach Airport was just west of our home).
Recorded by Funharm.
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/