Foundsounds
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 CD cover and disc (Japanese was added for Atlas 4 magazine). |
Jake Tilson collected fragments of discarded audio-cassette tape in eight cities. People had either thrown away damaged cassettes from their cars, or the tape had come from auto accidents. Each piece of tape eventually entwined itself around weeds or railings along the roadside. Tilson photographed the location where the tape was found and made a digital audio recording of the local sounds for a duration of five minutes. Location sounds 5 minutes each. Found sounds 30 seconds each. Jodhpur, London, Madrid, Jaisalmer, Stockholm, Udaipur, Cuenca, Bombay. |
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After two years Tilson had a broad range of sites. He wound the damaged and dirty scraps of cassette tape onto a blank cassette and re-recorded the found sounds. The tape from Bombay stinks of dried fish, even after five years. The found sound, which was always music, is heard half-way through listening to the location sound of the street where it was found.
Foundsounds appeared as an audio CD with Atlas magazine 4 in 1993, and was re-issued as a CD in 1997. NOTE: The audio samples provided here have been converted in small Mono samples for quick download - the actual CD has much better sound quality! |
 Audio sampleJaisalmer, India |
 Audio sampleCuenca, Spain |
 Audio sampleBombay, India |
 Audio samplePeckham, London |
 Audio sampleJodhpur, India |
 Audio sampleStockholm, Sweden |
 Audio sampleUdaipur, India |
 Audio sampleMadrid, Spain |
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exhibited at 2000 broadcast by WMBC Radio, USA. 1997 Investigations in Cities 1977-1997, retrospective, Museo Internacional de Electrografia, Cuenca, Spain. URBIS. |
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