We are pleased, this Halloween, to announce both the latest entry in our series in “Gothic Everyday;” and that the Gothic Listening project is now in shape to start posting new releases approximately monthly. New entries will be released as individual tracks or albums on Bandcamp (where our files are hosted), and also gathered and embedded on this website.
This month’s release, “Car Park/Stairwell,” is the second entry in the Gothic Everyday series – an ongoing project that invites recordists and sound artists to listen for the gothic resonances in everyday life, whether by capturing things as they are or by remixing and reimagining ordinary sounds to reveal their uncanny aspects.
This entry pairs two examples of natural reverb, in a car park and a stairwell. As a sequel to the first Gothic Everyday release (which came about during the stay-at-home phase of the COVID-19 pandemic), this might be considered as the sound of an uneasy return to workplaces.
The main track time-stretches and augments a single blast of a car horn in a parking garage. The original untreated recording, along with the time-stretched but otherwise untreated version, are available as bonus tracks with album download on Bandcamp.
Gothic Listening invites both original submissions and reimaginings or remixes of any of the project’s existing creative-commons-licensed sounds. For more about the Gothic Everyday and other Gothic Listening projects, or to get involved, check out our open, ongoing projects and submission guidelines.
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