{"id":96,"date":"2008-04-11T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T22:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-04-19T19:28:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T17:28:36","slug":"shorts-27-gil-thorp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2008\/04\/shorts-27-gil-thorp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts #27: Gil Thorp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p__XzqnLDCQ&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p__XzqnLDCQ&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Commissioned and titled by Josh Fruhlinger. (2007)<\/p>\n<p>Josh gave me the title before I started the piece. Gil Thorp is the name of a surreal American newspaper comic which is supposed to be about high school sports. Josh runs a blog discussing newspaper comics, called the <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/\">Comics Curmudgeon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded (British) football from my TV, which included my housemate clapping after a goal. Then, I decided to use white noise, because it&#8217;s very similar to crowd sounds. I filtered it a lot to make sort of screetchy sounds. The football announcers didn&#8217;t exactly have the accent that I would expect Marty Moon to have, so I kept them in the background. My girlfriend said that it struck her as very Mark Trail-like, so I raised the volume of the background at the end, to make the sports connection clearer.<\/p>\n<p>Bird-like sounds remind me of high school sports, but that&#8217;s probably because my high school had a terrible seagull infestation.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect this particular piece might get especially high traffic, so I made a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p__XzqnLDCQ\">YouTube video<\/a> to go with it, but feel free to grab the mp3 if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/images\/play.gif\" width = 12 height = 12 alt=\"[play]\"\/> Shorts #27: Gil Thorp<\/a> (2007)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2193\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2193','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=96-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"gil_thorp.mp3\">Download<\/a> (1.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned and titled by Josh Fruhlinger. (2007) Josh gave me the title before I started the piece. Gil Thorp is the name of a surreal American newspaper comic which is supposed to be about high school sports. Josh runs a blog discussing newspaper comics, called the Comics Curmudgeon. I recorded (British) football from my TV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2194\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2194','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=96-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/mp3s\/2008\/shorts\/gil_thorp.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"gil_thorp.mp3\">Download<\/a> (1.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,28,51,63,4,50,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","category-celesteh","category-commission","category-field-recording","category-noise","category-short-attention-span","category-synthesizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}