[-empyre-] Hurricane Sandy

[Maria Damon]

wow, watery apocalypse clanging sounds great

On 10/29/12 9:34 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
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> The roaring's from the wind rumbling over the tarps; we repaired the 
> skylights with shower curtains, tarps, duct tape, gorilla tape, and 
> bungee cords - and it's still holding. But we went out walking for a 
> half hour, just got back, and it was like a JG Ballard novel, huge 
> metal advertising signs crumpled and all over the avenue, moving 
> everywhere in pieces at high speed, we had to be careful we didn't get 
> hit. And the sound of clanging scraping metal everywhere. It was 
> fantastic. Meanwhile elsewhere in the area, already deaths, flooding 
> tunnels, etc. We've been lucky so far.
>
> - Alan
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> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote:
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>> what is the roaring inside your building? you write as if from inside 
>> a sinking ship, as in Edgar Allen Poe's short story...
>>
>> On 10/29/12 8:04 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
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>>> Everyone I know is documenting the storm and putting it up online. 
>>> The reality as such is troubling; listening to the police radio 
>>> gives an idea of the degree people are in trouble. At the moment the 
>>> situatio is more severe, small explosions, more fires, flooding 
>>> everywhere. So far we're okay but the roaring inside our place is 
>>> almost 80 db consistently. Is this the Singularity come early?
>>>
>>> - Alan
>>>
>>> Hurricane Sandy
>>>
>>> some audio files - sounds from inside our place from the skylights; 
>>> playing nepalese sarangi and sarangi with the sounds; police radio - 
>>> note the stranded cars with water rising, fires, etc.; a few shots 
>>> from our excursion out with Gary Wiebke holding the piece of 
>>> wallboard that almost killed me, and a tree around the corner which 
>>> has split and killed a smaller ginko next to it as well. The buoy 
>>> videos fascinate me, taken from a Brooklyn waterfront pier yesterday 
>>> as the storm approached.
>>>
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh1.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh2.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh3.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh4.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh5.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh6.mp3
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh07.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh08.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh09.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh10.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh11.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/sandyh12.jpg
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy2.mp4
>>> http://www.alansondheim.org/buoy1.mp4
>>>
>>>
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