We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

'After a while' (Union Square, San Francisco, July 3, 2013)

by John Harvey

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

about

In 1964, Steve Reich recorded part of a sermon spoken by an African-American street preacher in Union Square, San Francisco. Samples of that tape recording formed the basis of Reich's composition 'It's Gonna Rain' (1965). My digital recording captures the sound of the Square nearly fifty years later.

credits

released July 16, 2021
Personnel: anonymous crowd and John Harvey.

Instrumentation: Tascam DR-2d digital recorder.

Context: recorded at Union Square, San Francisco, USA (3.20 pm, July 3, 2013).

Reference: John Harvey: Blog: 'It's Gonna Rain ('After a While') intersections.johnharvey.org.uk/2013/07/09/its-gonna-rain-after-a-while-2/

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

John Harvey Aberystwyth, UK

The Aural Diary began in 1985. It was an attempt to capture fleeting experiences acoustically, in the same manner as a camera does visually. Thus, the recordings are ‘audiographic’ memories of the past: sound imprints that, to my ears, evoke people, places, events, and things more vividly that moving and still images.

I’m a practitioner and an historian of sound and visual art from Wales.
... more

contact / help

Contact John Harvey

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like John Harvey, you may also like: