{"id":1502,"date":"2010-07-22T08:57:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2010-07-22T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:57:29","slug":"doors-and-saying-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/doors-and-saying-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Doors, and Saying No"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1505\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1505\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1505\" title=\"cigMachine_aged\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cigMachine_aged.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cigMachine_aged.jpg 240w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cigMachine_aged-164x290.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mmm, so many tasty, carcinogenic choices.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like <a title=\"Read more about this interesting project!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/the-doors-record-list\" target=\"_blank\">over 100 other field recordists<\/a>, I signed up for <a title=\"Visit Tim's excellent blog, The Music of Sound\" href=\"http:\/\/musicofsound.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Prebble&#8217;s<\/a> crowdsourced <a title=\"Doooooooooooors!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/hissandaroar-library-x-doors\" target=\"_blank\">special effects library of doors from around the world<\/a> on his boutique effects label, <a title=\"Visit (and support!) Hiss and a Roar\" href=\"http:\/\/hissandaroar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hiss and a Roar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, I had to bow out of the project, and a number of other side-projects. <em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">(Saying &#8220;no&#8221; is a powerful tool to help rein in your life from your own over-committal. Just do it early enough.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, one of the more interesting doors I did manage to record was the hinged front panel of an all-metal, 1970&#8217;s-era cigarette vending machine. This thing lives in my office, inherited from previous tenants. It&#8217;s too big to get rid of, and too odd and ironic to let go of, since none of us smoke.\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Get in the Way-Back Machine and check it out!\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/playing-a-cigarette-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">This object has been heard here before<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the awesome work everyone has done on this upcoming release, today&#8217;s sound is a fragment of my own aborted contribution, in the hopes that everyone will support Hiss and a Roar and pick up the collection when it&#8217;s released.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/noisejockey\/cigmachinedoorslams&#8221; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=dd0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">[Sennheiser MKH 50\/30 mid-side stereo pair with into Sound Devices 702 recorder]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like over 100 other field recordists, I signed up for Tim Prebble&#8217;s crowdsourced special effects library of doors from around the world on his boutique effects label, Hiss and a Roar. Unfortunately, due to extenuating circumstances, I had to bow out of the project, and a number of other side-projects. (Saying &#8220;no&#8221; is a powerful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63],"tags":[240,9,241,10,62,133,22,321,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}