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The Cold War era is one that I am becoming quickly and deeply interested in. Mutual assured destruction. Two world powers with massive nuclear arsenals and launching capabilities pointing their ICBM's at targets in each other's territories. Each side is paranoid and suspicious of the other. The USSR vs the USA. The 1950s through the 1980s were decades in which the American public lived with the thoughts of nuclear attack in the backs of their minds. Generally speaking I am a guy who has focused… Continue

I knew I wanted to do something involving agricultural history when it came to this soundscape project. I figured the tobacco industry in NC would be a good idea. What I wound up doing was going to Duke Homestead in Durham to get some original sounds... I recorded the sounds of their tobacco field, and the audio presentations of tobacco auctions and a Lucky Strike cigarrette commercial that can be heard in their visitor's center. The pops and shuffles you hear in the field is me rustling and… Continue