o1soundfield recordings

Wolfe Island Windmill   1:17
There are 86 windmills across the harbour on Wolfe Island. This is a recording from directly underneath one, pressed toward the base of the tower. Used in Decomposing Pianos Trilogy I

Early Morning Robins   7:43
Robins call to each other each spring, sometimes as early as 3 am. Recorded with four microphones, binaural imaging creates a surround sound effect

Snowbirds and Birds   0:33
An epic battle between the R.C.A.F. Squadron, the Snowbirds, and a group of sparrows

Magical Forest (snow)   1:28
The sound of a pine forest during a freak May snowstorm on the Continental Divide Trail, New Mexico

Touching on Thin Ice   0:23
A rock skids along an extremely thin membrane of ice at Portsmouth Harbour just after it first freezes over

Winter Train & Windchimes   1:24
The sound of a far away train is carried over cold air, as recorded beneath windchimes

Migratory Bird Scare   1:21
This is a group of long tailed ducks that were scared up with a kayak in the middle of the night. They may have surprised me more than I surprised them. Used by TimKnightUs in Simultaneous

Train Distort (aural)   2:57
This is a train that travelled past a group of blackbirds. It has been processed such that it is purposely distorted with a noticeable left to right pan. Used by TimKnightUs in their Phone Show

Open Stove Pipe   4:00
The phone show also featured a field recording from inside the chimney of a woodstove. You can hear traffic outside, rain falling on the chimney cap and wind within this audio periscope

Mesina Ferry   7:50
The Mesina Ferry travels between Italy and Sicily. Passengers board while on a train. The result is steel grinding on steel as the train moves back and forth breaking into ferry-sized pieces

Super Tanker (Close Pass)   10:50
This was recorded on the shores of the Saint Lawrence River as a super tanker slowly approaches and disappears down the river *

Late August Evening (wind)   8:11
A late August evening, crickets contribute a steady background to a warm breeze passing through trees overhead. Used in Decomposing Pianos Trilogy II

Street Sweeper   3:14
A shorter version of the super tanker idea. This one passes by as the recorder sits on the curb

401 at Night   5:36
On an overpass above the median of the 401, trucks and cars speed along as late August crickets provide a steady background. Used in Decomposing Pianos Trilogy III

Ice Surfer   1:17
A close pass as an ice rig with a sail for power and blades for control moves quickly across Lake Ontario

By the Lake (ice)   6:46
Broken shards of ice are piled up by wave action in the early spring on the shores of Lake Ontario Park

Under the Causeway   1:58
The metal grate of the lift bridge at the La Salle Causeway in Kingston, Ontario triggers distinct tones with each passing car. Kingston's best kept secret: you can climb underneath. While under the bridge, several fire trucks pass overhead

The Wolfe Island Ferry   23:48
This is the complete journey of the Wolfe Island Ferry as it leaves Kingston and crosses to Wolfe Island. Note the near miss of lightning at around 14 minutes *

o1soundmusic

Main Theme   5:57
The theme to o1sound, a radioblog of recorded sounds, music and segments on CFRC, featuring a Darren Tweedy drum shuffle and the chime of the Kingston clock tower

EECHO   1:35
A brief moment in audio that was recorded by accident and never repeated again

AmBAnt   3:05
Live improvisation with a Roland Alpha Juno and a Nord Electro 2. One a digitally controlled oscillator, the other a sampled rhodes

Reflections   2:29
This multitrack piece is based on a drum loop by Darren Tweedy. YouTube clips are included of random people philosophizing on religion

Vocal Blend   3:03
Some experimental vocals and a repetitive crash cymbal, this was recorded as track 7 on Results of Hermitting, an album I made while living at a cottage on Buck Lake

Neurose   3:31
This neurotic piece is built using the Subtractor Synthesizer and Matrix Pattern Sequencer in Reason 3.0

Dial Tone Song   1:53
A sampled piece made entirely of dial tones and used in performance by TimKnightUs for their Phone Show

Senet (Ambient)   6:53
I was hired to write video game music for a never released game called Senet. A theme was made for the main menu and gameplay, as well as this ambient background

o1soundsegments

Greetings in 50 Languages   6:07
Both Voyager Space Missions carried a golden record and fifty recorded greetings for future humans (or aliens) to discover

Cardinal vs Lawn Mower   1:00
In the one corner, the cardinal, in the other corner, the lawn mower. Who will win?

Head Had Haed Hide   2:24
This is a synthetic recreation of my experience in an fMRI as I try to say "head" or "had" while a neurology student tricks my brain by feeding back my own voice into headphones. As the fMRI generates magnetic fields strong enough to suck in an office chair, an actual recording was not possible

Open Mic Night   8:10
A short documentary that captures the Grad Club's Wednesday Night Open Mic, circa 2008. At the time, a vibrant community showed up each and every week rarely missing a single evening

The Kingston Fair   5:44
This is a compilation of a visit to the Kingston Fair, set to Je n'en connais pas la fin by Jeff Buckley. There is a demolition derby and also some upsidedown time while clutching field recorders

Psi Stranger   1:46
Here I enter a conversation with two complete strangers about dynamic frequency range while attending a Psi-Trance show in Montreal

QWERTY   1:44
A prepared segment on the QWERTY keyboard for a Cognitive Dissonance episode on user interface. The episode asks if a "grey area" analogue interface such as the theremin is better than the "black and white" discrete interface of the piano keyboard

Rye and Picklebrine   3:42
This is an example of stunt audio. Here I drink a potent mixture of rye and picklebrine from my kitchen table and quickly discover I can't play it cool afterward