Seventy Seconds by Har$

"Seventy Seconds" is a sound diary for the prime year, 2011, the first of the 130th pair of sexy primes (2011, 2017). It contains 10 seconds of sound for each of 2011's 365 days, recorded at shifting hours, always there where I happened to be on that day at the given time.
To read more about the how's and why's, go: http://70s.soundblog.net.
The work is called "Seventy Seconds" because it was published, on the go, in weekly editions of 70 seconds, on Hard//Hoofd (http://hardhoofd.com), a Dutch online daily for culture and journalism. The weekly sound bytes were accompagnied by a photo taken by photographer Pieter van Wynsberghe, as well as by a short litter-rary prose/poem-like text, in Dutch.
The first 6 months of Seventy Seconds together became the 10th episode of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform based in Chicago, IL, USA (http://theradius.us/episode10); the second 6 months are Radius's 28th episode (http://theradius.us/episode28)

«__The rapid succession of daily sonic snippets relentlessly mirrors the passing of time, eavesdropping on a very personal soundscape that due to the decasecond shifts and cuts manages to remain sort of abstract. But the attentive (re-)listener may over time discern the many lines of (unfinished) drama and euphoria, of hopes and fears, as they continue to unfold. It is in this sense that these decasecond pieces truly become diaries. They are also simply works made out of sound, the 'intangible and uncanny ghost that always travels half a mile ahead of its own shape' (William Faulkner, Light in August)__»

The digital download comes with a '2011 in precisely one minute' bonus track, and with a PDF e-Book containing the 52 HardHoofd texts (in Dutch), pictures and two 2011 SoundBlog entries dedicated to the project, its origin and its progress.

Even more to read:
http://harsmedia.com/SoundBlog/Archief/00836.php

Tracklist

1.	January 1 - 7	1:10

2.	January 8 - 14	1:10

3.	January 15 - 21	1:10

4.	January 22 - 28	1:10

5.	January 29 - February 4	1:10

6.	February 5 - February 11	1:10

7.	February 12 - 18	1:10

8.	February 19 - 25	1:10

9.	February 26 - March 4	1:10

10.	March 5 - 11	1:10

11.	March 12 - 18	1:10

12.	March 19 - 25	1:10

13.	March 26 - April 1	1:10

14.	April 2 - 8	1:10

15.	April 9 - 15	1:10

16.	April 16 - 22	1:10

17.	April 23 - 29	1:10

18.	April 30 - May 6	1:10

19.	May 7 - 13	1:10

20.	May 14 - 20	1:10

21.	May 21 - 27	1:10

22.	May 28 - June 3	1:10

23.	June 4 - 10	1:10

24.	June 11 - 17	1:10

25.	June 18 - 25	1:10

26.	June 26 - July 1	1:10

27.	July 2 - 8	1:10

28.	July 9 - 15	1:10

29.	July 16 - 22	1:10

30.	July 23 - 29	1:10

31.	July 30 - August 5	1:10

32.	August 6 - 12	1:10

33.	August 13 - 19	1:10

34.	August 20 - 26	1:10

35.	August 27 - September 2	1:10

36.	September 3 - 9	1:10

37.	September 10 - 16	1:10

38.	September 17 - 23	1:10

39.	September 24 - 30	1:10

40.	October 1 - 7	1:10

41.	October 8 - 14	1:10

42.	October 15 - 21	1:10

43.	October 22 - 28	1:10

44.	October 29 - November 4	1:10

45.	November 5 - 11	1:10

46.	November 12 - 18	1:10

47.	November 19 - 25	1:10

48.	November 26 - December 2	1:10

49.	December 3 - 9	1:10

50.	December 10 - 16	1:10

51.	December 17 - 23	1:10

52.	December 24 - 31	1:20

Credits

released April 20, 2018

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