the media collective

The Media Collective attended a recent event put on by the great folks at City Foods, the local food co-op:

City Foods and Thistle Byre Farms 101 – a short presentation intended to update the public, members, and volunteers, of City Foods progress and mission. Abbey Abbott-Rider will also provide a background of her family-run farm, Thistle Byre Farm. Ms. Abbott-Rider, Nurse Practitioner, will also speak about the nutritional benefits of eating whole, local foods.

After the presentations, we were able to chat with Mary Lehmkuhl of City Foods to get the run down of the food co-op.

Be sure to check out the City Foods calendar for upcoming events.

The music we used in this show was Gepel’s Astart from their album, Moducué. You can download it from the freemusicarchive.org

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The following audio was obtained on September 24th, 2009 in front of the Lawson Computer Science Building on the Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

In this soundscape you will hear various speeches, conversations, and the various other noises that occurred during the 4 and 1/2 hours we were at the protest. We apologize for the microphone grumbles and audio drop-outs near the end.

Click here for audio interviews from the Bill Ayers Protest at Purdue University

The following audio was obtained on September 24th, 2009 in front of the Lawson Computer Science Building on the Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana campus.

People started forming around the city block near the building, some of them belonging to the Citizens in Action and Purdue University College Republicans groups. Bill Ayers was scheduled to speak at 7PM that evening. We decided to interview those active in the protest and passerby from 5PM until about 9:30PM.

The full interview is listed below. To listen to the interviews broken down by Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, click the “There’s more! Continue reading” link below and then download the appropriate segment you want.

A soundscape of the protest will be uploaded in the coming week.

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We attended the three pillars of comedy put on by the Purdue improv group, The Crazy Monkeys. The night consisted of three different types of comedy: short form, long form, and sketch. The Ship of Fools, The Crazy Monkeys, and the University tWits performed each of these styles respectively.

We recorded the introduction to night given by Shauvon at Hot Box Pizza, followed by Andrew’s warm-up of the crowd before the Ship of Fools came out on stage.

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We missed the intro to the Crazy Monkey’s show at Greyhouse so we don’t have anything recorded there.

Before the third installment of this great even started, I managed to snag an interview with a member of the Crazy Monkeys (Logan?). We talked about the night, how he become a member, and the process of animating imaginary people.

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And, like the idiots we are, nothing of the University tWits was recorded. So there you have it, an incomplete documentation of the nights events. Enjoy!

We took our recorder to the gallery walk last night and recorded some of the street performers. If you have never been on a Gallery Walk, you should. It’s a great time to see local art exhibits, enjoy some live music, drink free wine and eat some free food. A very enjoyable time.

The flyer can be downloaded from the Tippecanoe Arts Federation website.

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Download Downtown Lafayette Gallery Walk Audio Collage 08-01-2008