![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Postcards: Consumer Electronics Show [sw05] - Funny Cry Happy
Postcards: Consumer Electronics Show is comprised of unaltered, binaural field recordings made at the 2006 edition of the country's largest trade show. Over 150,000 non-consumers -- vendors, buyers, celebrities, quasi-celebrities, execs -- filled 1.6 million miles of floor space of the Las Vegas Convention Center, hawking the latest and greatest in all things beepy. 1. Microcosmicomics So large it required its own sub-map, but still only requiring three-and-a-half minutes to traverse, the Sony p...
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| Postcards: Atlantic City EP [sw02] - Funny Cry Happy
Casinos are tuned to the key of C. Slot machine bleeps, video poker blurps, the pings that come before public announcements -- all in C. The sum total is a surprisingly warm hum, designed to keep gamblers hypnotized. Like the lack of natural light, the absence of clocks, and the recycled air, it is one of the many surreal environmental features of our nation's gambling halls. Postcards: Atlantic City melds field recordings made in the seedy New Jersey resort town with slight modifications made a...
Keywords: Experimental
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| On A Clear Night, You Can Smell For Miles [sw03] - Funny Cry Happy
The second full-length from Brooklyn's Funny Cry Happy. Infectiously surreal folk strums set atop an ever-shifting psychedelic sound field of bells, banjos, birds, radio static, recordings made in a tunnel under a highway in Boulder, reconstructed trumpets, accordion, uke, dubbed snares, organ drones, the ever-present toy piano, and whatever else was lying around. The kitchen sink was left off this time (though was included on FCH's self-titled 2002 debut).
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