Field Recording- Kansas Univeristy- Band Practice Hall

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aka Murphy Hall, on 4-29-10.  Signal Chain= Audio Technica Pro 37, phantom power box, passive DI used in reverse, Canon ZR-800 MiniDV camcorder (click here for the video of this recording, the tape transfer messed up . . . ).  This was taken near an article posted on a bulletin board with a title of "Electronic Music is a failed adventure."  Of course the article wasn't as cool as the title and dealt with band geeks complaining about not getting to play enough at the basketballs games and instead of the krunk CD's banging.  But there is a horn of some sort and some percussions in the 2 minutes.

Bell Tower Information aka Campanology aka Campanile

I like this idea of field recording bell towers, sounds like a good way to kill time with microphones. It may be helpful to know about some bell tower history and why they roll the way they roll.  it would be cool to document at various distances from the epicenter as well.

KU Noon Bell Tower Recording

I was under the impression that the KU Bell Tower did a special ring at noon. I was on campus on Saturday, and I thought it did a long chime deal at the height of the sun. Today is Sunday, so I got up near it and set up my little laptop based field recording rig and waited for the noon toll. It did it's regular ring, with 12 strikes afterwards. I even hung out until 12:15 pm to make sure that wasn't the special ring (which it wasn't). I left the recording running during the 15 minutes and got a dog running in front of the mic (which you can also hear during the noon recording chimes).

The Noon Toll- 2-28-10

The 12:15pm Toll- 2-28-10

The dog running in front of my mic, with a train whistle prelude