the sound of one, fingerless hand clapping...

 

What?

 

Shut up!

 

No, YOU shut up!

a supersonic jelly jam

by Michael Suter

 

 

SOUND FILES

1. spiritualized tone

Being the ambient tone underneath many a tune made by the band Spiritualized.

2. russian suite

1960's Russian folk record eaten by many effects and then reversed.

3. helicopters

Synthesizer helicopters landing in your front yard. Thank you Mr. Coppola

4. woman laughing from Kubrick's "the shining"

As the old woman's naked corpse chases Jack...

5. Ruprecht's Banana Muffin

The language of greatest game show host in the world is finally looped for your pleasure

6. hedidit

...and again.

7. Smah!

Being an example of voice as the most versitile instrument. This one really gets the elephants stamping.

8. God's Maxwell House

Being the Maxwell House Coffee theme song if played on a church pipe organ. Hallelujah!

9. newyorknewyork

When words are repeated, sometimes they just become silly noises.

10. vocal whistle

Being another example of voice as an instrument.

11. robot old man reading excerpt of poem

Mr. Gaston Fignickles reads the final stanza of "Diary of a Kinsington Knickerbocker".

12. my evening crutches

An instrumental song written and performed by Michael Suter as the soundtrack for his film of the same name.

13. Moogin' on up, to the East side - 1

Just one sound created by a moog, a glorious little lunchbox that makes space noises.

14. Moogin' on up, to the East side - 2

Yet another sound by the moog.

15. Moogin' on up, to the East side - 3

And again.

16. Moogin' on up, to the East side - 4

...again...

17. Moogin' on up, to the East side - 5

...dammit...

18. the ice is cracking

Being an instrumental written and performed by you, i mean me, recorded on your Tascam 4-track, I mean MY Tascam 4-Track.

19. Bright Time

Being another instrumental with acoustic guitar, and drum beat by Elephant Musical Keyboard. As recorded by my computer Rodney's internal microphone.

20. Super Sweep

As recorded from the PAX television broadcast of Supermarket Sweep. Hosted by David Ruprecht, the Devil.

 

PROJECTS - (as described by Rachel Cosgrove, age 17, a cheerleader from H.T. Garrison High School)

1. MONSTERPIECE - This was totally sweet and it was like a soundtrack for a cartoon drawn by Michael Suter. I soooo wish I had the picture to show you, but my brother Randy totally swiped my digital camera! Anywayz, the picture was of this scary guy, right, that like slithers out of this mechanical heart box with his robot snake neck. THEN, his face is all wrinkly, and he has an umbrella hat. I'm so serious. Outie!

2. PHASE 5 - Being one of a multi-phase sound torture experiment. FREAK OUT! A man is totally sujected to torrents of sound designed to drive the subject insane. TOTAL BONUS! His screams are fed back to him! This was so killer you guys, there was seriously, like, implementation of the power of voice as an instrument. Oh my God, I almost forgot about the banana banana banana thingy. Laters!

3. SHANGRI-LA - This is like SO trippy, i'm serious y'all. It's like my jewelry box freaking out! I thought I was going to honk, seriously. Oh my god! I just honked all over my backpack! Thanks alot Michael. You Asshole!