September 30, 2022 • 4:06 am 0
Here is a nice, home-recorded piece using Zoom Recorder tracks I created with 2 tuned drums, a collection of gongs, bells and chimes, a plastic recorder, a small ocean-environment-simulation device, and an archived recording of water dripping from the turn of the millenium. All sounds and recordings by Thomas Park except for the ocean-environment simulation device.
https://archive.org/details/dissolvinginastreamoftime
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September 30, 2022 • 4:04 am 0
Short Poetic Dream 20220919043454359753
or, “Truth and Shadow: We Seek Justice”
By Thomas Park
outskirts of gotham city
by acting the part of
the murder of
the image of bruce wayne
our actions define
a superficial playboy
all of the time bruce
supports philanthropic causes
ultimately led him to
prevent future harm and
social issues encouraging crime
bruce wayne believes that our
interpretations vary depending on
activities as batman
but is more widely known benefits
and for all that our actions define
we seek justice
https://archive.org/details/BruceWainTruthAndShadow
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September 30, 2022 • 4:01 am 0
Chesterfield Mall, like many 1980’s shopping malls, was once a center for culture and commerce. As a teenager I remember going there both to grab a quick bite to eat and to rent a tux for high school prom. I also worked regular hours at the cinema in the mall’s parking lot.
In 2022, I returned to Chesterfield Mall after a 30-year absence, hoping to buy lunch and an espresso machine for my office. What I found was mostly a large, abandoned space. Only a handful of businesses remained, and most people were there either hiking the periphery for excercise or hitting the birdie at the badminton courts now located at the grand center opening.
For reasons both sentimental and acoustic, I asked the Mall manager if a few friends and I could record some live music in the Mall space. They agreed, and on 8/25/2022, Gabe Raines, Rylee Short and I performed a set just shy of 50 minutes of live music in its vast, resonant emptiness.
I found the performance to be spiritual, rendering well the end of the shopping mall and so many other people and phenomenae from the 1980’s– and fortelling the economic and various forms of hardship to follow.
Gabe Raines: Keyboards
Rylee Short: French Horn
Thomas Park: Ambient Loops, Trombone, Valveless Bugle, Acoustic Chimes
Microphone Recordings by Gabe Raines
Zoom Recorder Recordings by Thomas Park
Mastering and Release Logistics By Thomas Park
https://archive.org/details/TwilightShoppingMalILive
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