stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

john wanzel

stopGOstop is a podcast that explores the idea that sound recordings can act as sediment — an accumulation of recorded cultural material — distributed via rss feed, and listened to on headphones. Each episode is a new sonic layer, incorporating field recordings, plunderphonics, and electroacoustic sound, all composed together in one episode or, alternately, presented individually as striations. The podcast has evolved over its existence, started as a field recording podcast in 2012 the first 19 episodes feature binaural and stereo recordings from everyday life. After a brief hiatus, it shifted between field recordings and ‘rebroadcasts’ of past work for radio. Since episode 30 the podcast has shifted between field recordings, new compositions and sound collages (with an occasional rebroadcast). stopGOstop continually juxtaposes two or three ideas — tending to move away from a focused theme, from new-worthy topics, or dependent on interviews of creative types — it is a podcast that is
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Episodios

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206: Vim, Vigor and Vitality (or Arrangements Are in Hand or is it Self Hypnosis)

dom., 11 ene. 2026
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206: Ice is forming on the river below

jue., 01 ene. 2026
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205: The computer is yours

jue., 18 dic. 2025
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204: After the day

sáb., 01 nov. 2025
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203: Opening

vie., 03 oct. 2025