Listening To The Office To Make Music To Listen To In The Office
Derek Walmsley
You may have noticed the Real Office Ambience,
field recordings of The Wire office recorded by Jez
riley French, which you can download from our website.
Jez's contact mics seem to have disturbed some karmic balance at
The Wire, because I've sensed several weird audio
disturbance since he's been in. The noise-cancelling headphones
that are an essential part of a Reviews Editor’s armoury have
started feeding back strangely when the battery runs
down, giving a wistful, medium pitched sinewave like a robotic
sigh before they conk out; the portable CD player that I keep close
at hand has started skipping on the first track, so that a Touchin'
Bass compilation of electro began to sound like Errorsmith crossed
with Oval; then the jack plug of my iPod started malfunctioning,
and a Rinse FM download of a funky/house set began to sound like it
had been run through a ring modulator, leaving a ghost of the music
without any impact or warmth.
The office ambience may never be the same again; perhaps some
sacred convent has been broken.
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