In this episode ride along with Paul on his mobile audio recording adventure above the falls to record ice with a hydrophone, contact mics and a condenser mic.
The hydrophone is placed under the ice with the contact mic on the surface. Complex bass and creaking sounds result.
In these unprecedented times something incredibly wonderful (or horrible depending on your personal perspective) took place that inspired and still inspires many of us today. And the event I am referring to is when the Canadian Trucker Convoy rolled out and the intense emotional reactions to this event.
Paul Clifford and his Jawshop Adventure Recording Studios attended the event and even participated in some serious trucker jams.
TRIGGER WARNING for some, amusing reading for others. Some people will find the fact that the Jawshop Adventure Recording Studios attended this event offensive and that is their prerogative however the Jawshop is about recording audio and will not exclude others for political or cultural reasons. Art doesn’t function that way, it is inclusive look at the world around us and our freedom of expression should not be interfered with by or for partisan political reasons. If you feel offended by others sharing their own opinions or ideas because they differ from your own then perhaps it is not in your best interest to consume material that you cannot handle.
A slide show of a young Bald Eagle attempting to balance on the top of a small tree. Continue reading
Human beings come in all shapes, shades and sizes but despite these differences everyone of us possess a spirit and this design by Charles J Craigan is dedicated to this uniting feature we all share.
For it is the Human Spirit that fills us with rapture and joy, or sorrow and grief and despite our external differences internally we are all equipped with a spirit and all that that accompanies. It is our spirit that motivates us, that inspires us and aids us in reaching our full potential and that is true for all humans. Therefore it is essential for us to take care of and nurture our spiritual selves just as it is important to nurture and care for our physical selves. It is also important for us to be respectful of other’s and their spirits, and to be aware of how our actions can effect the rest of our communities.
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It is the Human Spirit which every human being possess which is intrinsic to who we are and what we achieve, not what we look like or what we wear. Human spirits are withing every person and with that in mind please be good to each other and respect all of our differences!
Recently on my travels I came across some Wild Swans taking a bit of a break from their long winter journey and I am sharing these images for you to enjoy.
This happenstance gave me pause and as I watched the pair and their bond it brought to mind the memory of my Elders whom I miss terribly and our own special bond which can never be broken. But it also brought to mind the issue of ugly ducklings and the struggle we all face in attempting to live up to fulfil our purpose and the feelings of inadequacy that sometimes rear their ugly head.
Modern society functions more like a chicken coop these days, where caged birds create a pecking order and force conformity on the community, the ways of Wild Swans are lost to them. And this is the recipe for disaster for an society, to be hellbent on destroying creativity and innovation for political gains and in order to dominate others does not bode well for artists or scientists anymore than habitat destruction does for the Wild Swans.
Art is medicine, much like the site of Wild Swans it stirs the spirit and fortifies the soul in ways that human beings need to survive much like clean, air, water and food. The way love and hugs are medicine, or a smile from a child are medicinal and constant bullying and denial of these elements is toxic and harmful to us.
Are our voices to ever be muted and will we also become extinct in the name of progress? Or Greed. A lot of us are being mistaken for chickens when that is not what we are nor is it what we need to fulfil our purposes and live up to our potential. So today I stand with myself, my community and the Wild Swans for it is better to remain an ugly duckling than to deny to beauty of the Swan that created you.
Ride along with Paul Clifford’s Jawshop Adventure Recordings. In this episode he revisits his local cell tower and implements his magic to extract his unique and amazing audio recordings.
If you are curious about what a bow pulled across a spring attached to a cell tower sounds like or are just interested in how the art of field recording and how sounds are captured then we invite you to visit the Jawhop and check out their audio treats.
Welcome to the University of East Hastings, not a formal institution but more a school of thought and experience, it is a state of being human that we intend to celebrate with you.
We are not elitist’s, our artist’s are part of the workers collective and our work for the most part is seen and heard but goes unacknowledged, like many people’s efforts these days. Our work is seen on people’s clothing, on their signage, their electricity boxes and banners. It is seen and heard in advertisements and promotions, in our pubs and eateries, even on the street outside the liquor stores and on special occasions you will find us in books and on albums. Sometimes we prosper, sometimes we go without and have to take on extra menial work to take care of our loved ones. Despite the hardship still we go on because as human beings struggling to overcome our obstacles and better ourselves is perfectly natural and healthy.
In truth though we must take a look around and see what is for ourselves and discover the complex reality we all exist and are meant to participate fully in together.
It is the education we receive from success and failure, from love and rejection, from the very act of caring about your community or not caring that defines us all individual and collectively.
Our education comes from the day to day toil and struggle to put food on our tables and keep roofs over our families heads. From navigating the streets and communities, from interacting with others and learning through experience and with courage, sometimes we fail, sometimes we are knocked to our knees but we always pull ourselves up again and struggle on.
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We are artificially disenfranchised from each other on a daily bases for ridiculous superficial and sometimes fictional reasons created by spin doctors of the lowest order. They pathetically bully and torment people constantly into feeling ashamed of the very skin that we were born into in order to boost themselves economically with no concern for the people they are effecting or the harm they are causing to others. However in reality for the majority of us we are all individual units that work together in incredibly brilliant ways as part of our highly sophisticated and functioning societies.
To be made to feel inferior or wrong because of who you are and how you were born is the great wrong, for we are all utterly amazing and incredible creatures with so much potential, much like our ancestors were. We would not exist if they did not, and they were amongst the survivors of the masses who did not make it. Be proud of your ancestors, and believe in yourself again for the work you do, for the entertainment you love, for being yourself, for being a normal human being and comfortable with who you are, and stand with the ancestors who created you.
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