Pleased to report that I successfully submitted my 2002 recording of the Detroit People Mover to the Sounds of the State collection that’s been playing on Michigan Radio for the last few months. So if you listen to Michigan Radio with any regularity you’ll hear my recording of the Detroit People Mover. You should also check out the Sounds of the State Web site. Very nice.

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I stumbled upon this footage when I was spending some idle time at the Internet Archive. The footage had no sound, and according to the description it was found when an office building was being cleaned out and the film emulsion was starting to decompose.

The vivid colors and the nostalgia for the 1960s got the creative juices flowing, and I started hearing a soundtrack in my mind’s ear that I wanted to add to this footage.

The original Archive.org page is here.

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Interesting article here by Johnny Greenwood, guitarist and keyboardist of Radiohead, claiming an interesting position on Mp3s. This is part of Sasha Frere-Jones  (a writer that I’ve really come to respect and enjoy reading who also has a nice site here.) New Yorker series Dithering.

I have to say that for the most part I agree with Greenwood’s position, and as such this is something that I’ve embraced with my own work. He makes another really interesting point that I’ve heard among my own friends and collectors of audio:

“The downside is that people are encouraged to own far more music than they can ever give their full attention to.”

For myself and my friends this is something that we haven’t really been able to reconcile outside of dedicating a certain amount of time to hearing and experiencing the music outside of the commute and work day… actually making time for leisure listening… which I, personally, find to be real treat.

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