The human brain, the human body, the natural world, corporeal morphology, sleep, sleep deprivation, synesthesia, pareidolia, sensory bombardment, altered states of consciousness, geology, archeology, paleontology, daydreaming, memory, travel, music, film, art, theater... More specifically: Le Comte de Lautreamont, Antonin Artaud, Serge Prokofiev, Nicolas Slonimsky, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, John Cage, Edgard Varese, John C. Lilly, R. Buckminster Fuller, (early) Pink Floyd, (early) Soft Machine, Eno, Wire, Dome, Residents, Virgin Prunes, Beatles, Velvet Underground, Stanislaw Lem, Philip K. Dick, The Urantia Book, Small Wonder, Bohack, Mummenschanz...
Sounds Like
Spatio-sensory:
“I really enjoyed your soundscape experience at Granny's! It was a great stimulant for my imagination. I haven't made a painting in a while but your sounds are just the thing to step into another dimension and get the imaginative juices flowing.
I felt like I was hallucinating, but it was very gentle, abstract and pleasant. The only other time that happened to me was when I was at a Philip Glass concert. The living room seemed to open up and expand and the walls seemed alive and vibrating. The corners and angles around me seemed to disappear and be replaced by mushy terrain. Could I be inside an intestine? The sounds were nice and fluid, organic. I liked the fact that I couldn't recognize the sounds and they seemed otherworldly. The thing that really became apparent to me is that when the machine-like sounds came on, I seemed to tune them out like white noise, but the more intriguing sounds woke my brain up and made me very curious and aware.”
-Rene
“I think it might be interesting at some point to get up and walk around. I know it was interesting for me to stand up during part of it.
I was very impressed by the sounds that you have collected. I would appreciate a Youtube type video of your collecting of some of them...”
-Bob
“Listening to Spatio-sensory made me think about the potential of sound for expanding or reinforcing the physical manifestation of an idea. I am particularly interested in the scientific influences on your work--and the almost alchemical (hope you aren't offended by that word) aspects of combining seemingly disparate base elements to create something wholly new..."
-Alison
"I felt like I was sitting under a waterfall..."
-Devendra
Fastigium:
"Quietly intense. A fantastic way to experience your environment through sound."
-Ryan
"Awesome auditory POSTCARD!"
-Chaik
"I have insomnia and sleep with a noise machine. I had moments of wondering if I was asleep or awake. Also, enjoyed feeling like I was in the midst of a fire—unusual feeling."
-Jah
"Nice mix of mechanical vs. nature. Stimulating!"
-Nawchoate
"I couldn't tell what sounds were really happening around me and which were recorded. Just had a glass of wine and that heightened the sensations."
-Anon
"Weird. A whole world opened up behind me—but I still kept looking forward. The world felt bigger."
-Anon
"Compelling... I'm not sure what to make of it yet, but certainly something to think about. Thank you. Moments like this give life its texture."
-Anon
"Excellent sound quality. Loved the juxtaposition of man made and natural sounds."
-Anon
Vibratory Platform:
"I hear it AND I feel it!"
-Ellen
"Like being outside a cinema. Like sitting on an agitating washer, or being inside an MRI. When it slows down, I feel like my heart is going to stop."
-Anon
"Reminds me of an early-morning minor earthquake... Also, scary movies in surround sound."
-Anon
"Like riding on a train, laying on a bridge, seeing myself on the rock edge of a sea cliff with the waves crashing—almost on me."
-Anon
"It reminded me of having my teeth worked on by a grinder at the dentist."
-Anon
"Being wheeled in to an MRI, the way it feels BEFORE the surgery... reminds me to keep on noticing the details..."
-Anon
"I like the way you incorporate 2 senses in this experience—touch and sound... and how you get to experience vibration through sound waves. My Pacinian corpuscles have never been so excited..."
-T
"The background noise reminds me of my growling stomach."
-Miroslava
James Goode is a composer, writer, and artist living and working in San Francisco. He has produced electroacoustic works for gallery, museum, and private installations, as well as for dance, live performance, radio, recorded media, and the Internet. His idiosyncratic approaches to the creation and transmogrification of sound have stimulated audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan.
He has composed a number of pieces inspired by non-ordinary states of consciousness. Somniloquy, conceived in 2007, is one example. The narrative score for his 1999 ensemble piece Foment in the Brailles of Zoopsia references synesthesia; pareidolia; auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual hallucinations; multiple personality disorder; and other scientific phenomena. Spatio-sensory, an eight-channel sound installation of 2003, assigns a different sensory process to each of four pairs of speakers in the room; in this scenario, the speakers are thought of as sense organs—four eyes, two ears, one nose and one tongue—and movement of sound between them as analogous to specific types of sensory fusion.
Goode has played and/or recorded with many musicians, composers and groups, including Christopher Fleeger, Matt Davignon, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Charlie Callahan, Carrie Barclay, Walter Funk, Michael Henning, Brian Relph, Bill Horist, Jake Rodriguez, Joshua Churchill, David Slusser, Eric Glick Rieman, Dylan Bolles, Bevin Kelley, Kristin Erickson, Ji-Yoon Chun, Linda Hagood, Brenda Hutchinson, Phil Franklin, Gregg Turkington, Secret Chiefs 3, Trey Spruance, Ches Smith, John Zorn, Alan Tower, John Ingle, Matt Ingalls, Tom Nunn, Jai Young Kim, William Winant, Greg Saunier, Daan Van Der Walle, and Faxed Head.
You know there is this wonderful live shrimp dish here, always served with an extra plate.
You must place the inverted plate on top before serving, shake, and stun those buggers so you can place them easily on your own plate or expectant mouth. Yeah.
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good guess on the kxlu photos. they're actually not hubcaps though, they're pot and pan lids... attached to an ironing board. we call it the Klangophone!
thanks for the request/add, hope to see/hear you in a couple of weeks.
also, we're playing tomorrow night at the hemlock with inca ore and mangled bohemians. we're on first at around 9pm. come check it out if you're free...
thanks james, good looking out, i..m in madrid right now, came out for a show with Talvin Singh, hit me up with your email so i can let you know when i play in sf, peace, genie
hey man, finally got a copy of the Linda Hagood album!!!! it's fuckin' great!! i'd still like a to hear a whole JG solo record though!!!! i'm in need of a brain ticklin'
Palimpsest. Nice track. I love the word 'palimpsest' and I use it every chance I get. I like the word 'chiaroscuro' also. And 'bobbin'. Feel free to use those as track titles sometime (iffen you get the notion)...
I am sorry I missed your IAMINEPT festival set. I hope it went off better than my horrible performance did.
Yes! I have the photos to prove it. Also, this particular one was a role I loved so very much in the film Heavy Metal. I actually grew up during the filming, so it was really amazing to be involved with a project that ran through my puberty. The early years were tough because my Dad was an archaeologist, and he found this glowing green orb which ended up melting his face off. That tramatized me for years. I've only now begun to speak about it. I love my bird though, and my cool neck tatoo, oh, and the sword lessons were awesome!
