Lullaby Utopia
Olympia WA ambient double bass sleep aid
Episodes
March 10, 2020 • 100 mins
I was able to go to one day of the Oly Old Time Festival, a yearly event celebrating American folk musics, and take a couple field recordings. There are three recordings of square dances, two of the family dance and one of the night dance. I enjoyed myself immensely, learned new perspectives from the workshops and came away very happy. Thank you to Emily, Erik, and Ruby.
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February 27, 2020 • 97 mins
(View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzfGNMOt3a0. [It’s way cooler to see the pictures of what is happening in real time.])
Me and Brianna are getting married!
The first eleven minutes of the podcast are the actual surprise proposal itself. If you want to get a feel for the whole date, the rest of the podcast is a time capsule of everything that happened that night. You can check out what she said on the way t...
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January 29, 2020 • 97 mins
This is the last part of the San Diego series. Two recordings from San Diego Zoo, one from behind the flamingo pen where me and Brianna fed the flamingos dog soaked in water (the watery tchick-tchick-tchick sound is the flamingos feeding). We caught sunset in Owen’s Aviary, which was amazing. The species in the aviary are: Bali Mynah, Black-naped Fruit-dove, Black-naped Oriole, Chinese Hwamei, Collared Finchbill, Collared Imperi...
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January 21, 2020 • 97 mins
This is part two of three of our trip to southern California. About halfway in the middle of our trip we drove out to LA to see my aunt Deanna and uncle John. They met us in Griffith Park, and took us to Chinatown for dinner and to see the Thiên Hậu Taoist Temple. You can hear all the fans they had running to circulate air, as well as a huge standing bell that was being struck during our visit.
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January 14, 2020 • 100 mins
I went with my family (Mom, Dad, Isabelle, and Brianna) to San Diego for the holidays, and got some good field recordings. I’m going to put them in the shows in the order I recorded them in, which presents some challenges, especially with the overall narrative. The two field recordings in this episode are from silver strand beach and from San Diego bay, where we spent a couple hours out on the water. You’ll hear waves, winches, ...
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December 19, 2019 • 102 mins
I found my halloween recordings! My recording device attaches a date to each recording, which is always in the year of 2007. It’s almost like digital preemptive time travel. I was searching for files to delete to free up space on my computer and found my old recordings! Hurrah!
There are two big field recordings in this episode, one was my initial walk from around the capitol blvd bridge over I-5 through south olympia, down pas...
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December 7, 2019 • 97 mins
I went through some old home videos (the source of the fuzz you’ll here in this) and picked out 54 different soundclips, which I plugged into my computer so it could choose between them at random. As always when I give my computer the ability to make all the choices it surprises me with what it gets attracted to. About half (~25) of the soundclips made it into this episode I think, and I’m only basing that on things I didn’t hear...
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November 15, 2019 • 104 mins
Unfortunately all of my halloween field recordings were lost in the sands of time, so I had to take more field recordings this week. I decided to go the mall for some field recordings in the food court and outside the movie theater. I also took a walk on Kenyon st. going away from the mall and onto Harrison, you can hear someone ordering fast food in the episode. Malls are strange places; the mall here in Olympia is hardly any ...
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November 7, 2019 • 96 mins
In honor of the KAOS fall pledge drive (our goal of 10k was met!!) I added more voices to the pledge drive randomizer and reworked the whole think a little bit. KAOS is made up of amazing community members who don’t get anything for djing, not even: 1. money, 2. internet points, 3. exposure-bucks, 4. status, etc. Just people who want to bring good music and content to their local community. Do people listen to the radio less tha...
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October 30, 2019 • 48 mins
Short show this week, also NEXT LIVE SHOW NEXT TUESDAY @ SPITE HOUSE IN SEATTLE: https://www.facebook.com/events/911842465875980/
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October 19, 2019 • 99 mins
I took some rain sounds before the radio broadcast of some October rain. When I got inside to edit them, I loaded them up and thought "wow the sound of the small droplets onto the surface of the large puddles sounds really cool! I should go out and get more of that sound!" but by the time I figured that out, it had stopped raining.
Anyway, if you're in the area come and say hi, the house is a hop skip and jump away from the west ...
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October 11, 2019 • 97 mins
I went to Oktoberfest with my parents for the first time in a number of years this last weekend and had a lot of fun. Good food, and if you sign up to be a designated driver you get free soda and coffee. This episode was a little departure from the norm.
Live show coming up next week @ the hobbit hole:
https://www.facebook.com/events/524870038300370/permalink/525620701558637/
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October 7, 2019 • 98 mins
Me and my mom helped my sister move into where she'll be staying for college, and I had a great time! My sister was a little stressed, as was my mom, but not me, because I brought my equipment to take field recordings. In this episode you'll hear us sitting at a restaurant, lugging stuff into the building, me drumming on her furniture, and me saying my not-so-final goodbye. In fact, I'm hoping I'll be able to see some more music...
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October 1, 2019 • 92 mins
(See the part one summary)
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September 30, 2019 • 88 mins
I have two episodes in one here: One is all bass and one is all field recordings. It’s like choose your own adventure.
I needed to meditate on some stuff last week, and so I chose to do the show unaccompanied (for the most part, I did cheat a little bit halfway through with the help of my sister Isabelle). I haven’t done this in quite a while! I used to do this much more when I first started out doing the show. Contained within...
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September 16, 2019 • 90 mins
I've been thinking about getting a stethoscope to try and capture body sounds, but pressing my ear up against someone works well. I just have to edit out the gurgly noises, and I'm left with some breaths and clicks and faint thumps. Maybe a stethoscope would get heartbeats better. Also in this episode was the current night sounds from that previous Wednesday, still some crickets around.
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September 9, 2019 • 93 mins
I was walking past the local skatepark downtown and was drawn in by the sounds. I asked the kids there if they were ok with me recording them and they all got up and started skating to make more sound! Dope! Thank you James, JJ, Jo Jo, Jacob, Dalton, and Greg for skating. And then just down the street as me and Brianna were recording the fountain at Heritage Park, Chris came over and asked what we were up to, and after we told ...
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August 31, 2019 • 105 mins
I played a company picnic for my Dad’s workplace with my good friend/mentor Steve Luceno and my sister got some recordings of it which you can hear in the third third of the show. I programmed all the recordings she took and was hoping it would select the piñata getting beat but it never got around to it (she ended up with 2+ hrs of recording and there was room for maybe 40 minutes worth when it was layered on itself). Maybe it’l...
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August 24, 2019 • 105 mins
Another Isabelle travelogue episode, she is with my mom in Chicago and you can hear the annual cicadas in the recordings she sent back. (They are not the every 17 year cicadas, but a different species [every continental state has 4 or more species of cicada]). I’m really happy that they’re out there and that they are sending love from all of us back here in Olympia.
Field recordings in this episode include but are not limited to...
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August 18, 2019 • 98 mins
Since there were no field recordings last week, there’s a wealth of them this week. There was an owl hanging around our place whose hoots I stole. Judging from online video comparison I think it’s a great horned owl, but if you think otherwise please let me know at lullabyutopia@gmail.com. Did you know that owls have some of the most proportionally large ears in the animal kingdom? I was thinking of including a picture of their...
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