The Sounds Of Winter

12/20/2010 at 10:00 a.m. 

What are the sounds of winter? The crunch of frost on the lawn. The whoosh of rain coming off bus tires. The sound of silence when it snows. Is winter in the Puget Sound region audibly different from winter elsewhere? The Seattle Phonographers join us once again to explore the sounds and noises of the winter season. Email "Weekday" with your own recordings. With your help we'll create the soundscape of the season. Also, the Seattle Phonographers Union will play a short piece using clips of audio — some of them could be yours!

KUOW's Weekday with Steve Scher (94.9 FM or streaming on http://www.kuow.org/) the Seattle Phonographers Union played sounds of summer and talked about World Listening Day. Friday 7/16/2010 Hear the podcast of the show here.

The Sound Of Summer

07/16/2010 at 9:00 a.m. 

The rhythmic spray and then twist of the lawn sprinkler. The splash of kids in the wading pool. The clink of ice in an afternoon cocktail. What are the sounds of summer? Does summer in the Puget Sound region sound distinctly different from winter? The Seattle Phonographers Union join us once again to explore the sounds and noises of the summer season. Send your own recordings to SPUsummersounds@gmail.com. With your help we'll create the soundscape of the season. Also, the Seattle Phonographers Union will play a short piece using clips of audio — some of them could be yours!

Framework Radio: A program of unreleased solo pieces by Seattle Phonographers Union members, assembled and mixed by Steve Peters. Broadcast 3/28/2010.
Listen to the broadcast by clicking here.
Playlist available at http://www.murmerings.com/radio/playlist s10.html#mar

Seattle Phonographers Union CD Release

Friday and Saturday December 11 and 12

8 pm

$5-$15 sliding scale

Chapel Performance Space

4649 Sunnyside Ave N, 4th floor, Seattle, WA (corner of 50th St. in

Wallingford)

The Seattle Phonographers Union celebrates the release of their eponymous CD, "Seattle Phonographers Union," with two different line-ups of the Union performing each night: Doug Haire, Christopher DeLaurenti, Susie Kozawa, Jonathan Way, and Steve Barsotti on Fri Dec 11 and Heather Perkins, Perri Lynch, Dale Lloyd, Pete Comely, Steve Peters, and Rob Millis on Sat Dec 12.

The Seattle Phonographers Union is a collective of Seattle sound artists who improvise with unprocessed field recordings from around the world. We strive to create compelling juxtapositions of everyday and esoteric

sounds: A flock of pigeons may alight near flowing water and distant temple bells while a long wire fence shimmers and thwaps in the wind.

Each evening opens with a solo set: On Fri Dec 11, Perri Lynch presents Towards Mamori: Field recordings collected from the Mamori Lake region of the Amazon. She combines the nocturnal sounds of insects, tropical birds, river dolphins, frogs, and howler monkeys to explore the strength, fragility, and natural beauty of rain forests near and far. On Sat Dec 12, Christopher DeLaurenti premieres What is Happening in Darfur? along with urban recordings that capture unusual confluences of sound, speech, music, and silence.

Lynch's performance is funded by the City of Seattle CityArtist program while DeLaurenti's set is made possible with support from 4 Culture.

Our newest CD, Seattle Phonographers Union is now available!! 
The record is a co-release from and/Oar and Mimeomeme records and is available at:
www.mimeomeme.com
The CD features tracks culled from shows over the past six years. 

The Seattle Phonographers Union will perform as part of the Occultural Music Festival on Thursday, May 7th.
Also performing this evening will be Jason Kopec and Graham Banfield
The Occultural Music Festival is a three-weekend, community-based festival celebrating new and experimental music in the Pacific Northwest of psychic, ecological or otherwise deeply resonant importance.
Thursday May 7th
The Chapel at the Good Sheppard Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave.
Seattle, WA
(map)
$5 to $15 sliding scale