Overcoming Godzilla
Image by Claire L. Evans
Overcoming Godzilla [7:52m] Overcoming Godzilla [7:52m]Intensity via Marching Band
Photo released under a Creative Commons license by Jbweir
It seems parades have become just excuses to sculpt giant advertisements out of papier maché, but I still will fight for a good seat to see the high-school marching bands. I love the intensity from the snare drums and horns that leave me feeling like it’s our civilization’s final hour. I suppose the military and sport events felt the same way when they adopted the marching band. I’m pretty pacifistic, but I sympathize with that pre-game energy and the excitement that chaos is about to be unleashed. This was also a lesson in field recording when my microphone experienced its own share of intensity. It got a bit overwhelmed by the overtones of the bass reflecting off the buildings downtown, causing the mic to get overloaded and distort at certain points, even though the recording levels were far from peaking. This was extremely frustrating at first, but looking back, the distortion seems appropriate and symbolic.
Marching Band in the Starlight Parade [4:22m]
Richard Jensen wrote:
This is a nice - if not arresting - souvenir, but where is the beginning of the Godzilla talk? And is there any chance to offer more of the graphics? Especially that strange, stroboscopic, “wisdom warrior” (?) slide that was projected during the music.
“A haunting, primal, irrational tour de force.” ~ The Daily Astorian
“Vive le power-pointe pataphysicale!” ~ Seaside Signal
Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 8:55 pm | Permalink
ashby wrote:
michael’s recorder has been acting up—so he had to slice out a portion of the lecture! so sad!
are those real quotes? or are you just excited?
Posted on 26-Sep-06 at 1:24 pm | Permalink
Richard Jensen wrote:
Those quotes are make-believe but Alfred Jarry, inventor of pataphysics, was real.
Posted on 26-Sep-06 at 5:50 pm | Permalink