Ever since the mobile podcasting/soundseeing phase
began, I had this nagging feeling that I had read it all before, that
some bright guy had seen it coming and this wave of "new, cool" stuff
was like everything else, an echo of a thought that just needed to be
heard once it reflected off the wall of time. I think that guy was Neil
Stephenson, the book was "Snow Crash" and the concept of the characters
known as "Gargoyles". These characters become augmented by the ability
to record and store sound and video everything as they wander through
the world, capturing events and perhaps selling this footage to those
who care.
The first time I wired up the iriver or honestly,
heard Curry or Butler do it, I got this strange deja vu/feeling that
one stream of speculative fiction was no longer speculation. Now unlike
celebrity photographers, videographers at traffic stops or those folks
who hang out at airshows to capture crashes, the podcasting
community has captured the mundane and made it entertaining.
We're going to find more things captured just by the fact that people
will have the record button depressed.
I look forward to getting to the festival circuit to
try gathering the found sounds that I live with and then sharing them
with whomever is daft enough to listen.
6:55:22 AM 
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