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My Fuzzy Warbles }{ Disc Three }{ Only Lovers Left Alive (12″ Limited EP)

“Remember that 12 inch I was telling you about? Check it out man.” “Woah.” “Triple black man.” “That’s great. 180 gram vinyl?” “180 gram man.” “Amazing.” “Yeah. No printing anywhere.” “Yeah that’s awesome. So mysterious.” It’s intermission in a small Detroit rock club. The White Hills have just finished up a set. Adam has been […]

Posted on September 27, 2015 at 9:53 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, My Fuzzy Warbles, Phonography, Sound Technology

City Song : A Forgotten Gem from the CBC Vancouver Archives

The UN has declared October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, intended to function “as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.”  In that spirit I’m posting a short essay (see below) that […]

Posted on October 27, 2014 at 9:03 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Archives, Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Uncategorized, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape

Film Review }{ El Desierto (Christoph Behl, 2013)

It’s a zombie apocalypse in an arid region of Argentina. Ana, Jonathan and Axel form a trio of survivors holed up in a makeshift fortress and entangled in an increasingly awkward love triangle. They monitor the surrounding landscape via a set of microphones positioned around the property, visualized through a quick montage at the film’s […]

Posted on August 6, 2014 at 9:48 am by rjordan · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Film Reviews, Film Sound

Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ My Arrival

It’s World Listening Day!  To help mark the day I am beginning a new blog series reporting on my post-doctoral research with the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University.  I begin with my arrival on campus and immersion within the WSP community last fall. September 2012 was a spectacular time to be in Vancouver. […]

Posted on July 18, 2013 at 9:16 pm by rjordan · Permalink · One Comment
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Technology, Vancouver Soundscape

Film Review }{ The Delian Mode

Today is the inaugural edition of Delia Derbyshire Day! Events include a mini-symposium in Manchester to honour her pioneering work in electronic music, featuring a screening of The Delian Mode by Canadian filmmaker Kara Blake. In support of the day I’m re-posting my review of the film, originally published as part of my report on […]

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4’33” in the Soundscape of a Haunted Guggenheim

The first time I went into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City a couple of years ago I was immediately confronted with a cacophony that suggested a blatant case of the sight-centered approach to architecture from which so many modernist buildings suffer: looks fantastic, and sounds awful.  Or as R. Murray Schafer […]