Alarms

[furtwaengler]

No, I actually am looking to use these as alarms in my CD player/alarm clock.

I Recorded A Train. Nothing gets you out of bed in the morning like a giant freight train roaring through the room. This had no visible success in the audition room, and perhaps that was not the proper place for it anyhow, for it is not simply the great piano piece "Rails" by the little known Russian composer, Vladimir Deshevov, but it is "Rails" played at breakneck speed in an actual attempt to match the speed of the "Ding-dings" (as my friend's 5 year old/train enthusiast calls them) in my recording of an actual freight train, which I accomplished by placing my Zoom H2 in the middle of the tracks. I was extremely excited the night I successfully recorded this train and picked up the Zoom unharmed! It's only natural to then combine this event with Deshevov's Rails, don't you think!

Alarm. This other is from the tapes, and probably recorded sometime 2007 or 2008. It is pretty unforgiving both in the severity of the instrument, the severity of the tape's sound, and the unrelenting nature of one volcanic outburst after another. I always go back to storms and natural disasters...whether this a blizzard, a hurricane, or a volcano. Ah...it's a tape! What for subtle quotations of Prokofiev's 7th Sonata and Salonen's Dichotomie towards the end.