Voicemails (disquiet0156-audiojournal2014) by Mark Rushton

These are from voicemails I've listened to over the past year. Each 5 second edit is from a different month, starting with January and ending in December. The first 11 are one voice, and the last one is a different voice.

I really prefer asynchronous conversation in the digital age where smartphones always lack the sidetone of land lines. You'll rarely catch me talking on my smartphone for more than 30 seconds unless I'm leaving a voicemail. That's just my thing.

Voicemails have factored into sound collages I've made since the mid 1980s, particularly in a lot of unpublished material I've been involved with. It's almost always humor or satire, but sometimes things have veered into areas where if I published it I would get sued because of rights issues so those things are kept as private jokes.

This bunch of clips should all be regarded as humor (e.g. "Amy Fisher" rather than "Anal Fissures").

Anyway, I wanted to do something different than play 5 second snippets of music or whatever. This stuff made me laugh over the past year, and I hope others get a chuckle out of it.

More on this 156th Disquiet Junto project — “Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen five-second segments” — at: http://disquiet.com/2014/12/25/disquiet0156-audiojournal2014/

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