Sound Inspiration

I believe it was Spencer who brought up http://youarelistening.to/chicago in John Granzow's Performance Systems class. On the site, you have the opportunity to listen to live police scanner feeds from various cities while an ambient music playlist plays in conjunction with the police scanners.

I think there's a nice juxtaposition between the very calm, ambient music and the crackles of the police scanner. In class we delved into how there's an interesting philosophical element with the violence/chaos usually associated with police scanners and how it can almost become just background noise, particularly when played with the ambient playlist.

I could delve into more philosophical detail, but I think I'll save that for another time!

Anyway, I like that kind of juxtaposition in sound, with the smooth ambient background being...interrupted? by the police crackles, and it's something I'm taking into consideration with my own sound design and sound space.