Places Visited

Wind and Metal explores the awesome ways metal responds sonically under the influence of wind. Large objects like wind turbines, windmills, a geodesic dome, an overhead power line transmission tower, a fire tower, flag poles and a giant crucifix, were recorded under varying wind speeds from airy breezes to howling gusts. Each structure produces resonant tones unique to its design, location and weather affecting it. There’s the sound of wire fences too.… Read More

Cover your ears. It’s going to get LOUD, introducing, Oval Track Racing. This high-octane stock car racing library features cars of various makes, models and performance characteristics circling a quarter mile (.40 kilometer) oval track in Meridian, Idaho. This track distance is referred to as a ‘short track.’ The sounds were captured from multiple perspectives inside, outside, and alongside the asphalt track with a variety of microphones and recorders.… Read More

In September 2002, I spent an afternoon documenting inmates from the Louisiana State Penitentiary picking row upon row of cotton in the fields that surround the maximum security prison, known as ‘The Farm,’ in Angola, Louisiana. Using a couple of … Read More

Back in the early 2000s, I went on a road trip for The Advocate newspaper with my colleague and good friend Chris Frink. We were headed up to East Carroll Parish, in the northeast corner of Louisiana along the Mississippi … Read More

Count this off in one-second intervals: 1-2-3-4-5. That’s all the time it takes, give or take, to leap off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho, before plunging into the Snake River 486 feet below. It’s a long way down … Read More