bookstore bops from Zelda Velasquez on Vimeo.
Every Saturday, from 10 am to 6 pm, I work at a used bookstore called Crazy4Bookz. The majority of my clientele consists of new moms, 60+ senior citizens, and lost philosophy students, so it's kind of a ridiculous situation when the vape store next door starts blasting their music over my liminal beats. Even better when they let their most buzzed employee futz with the sign out front.
So for this project, I took a fuzzed out version of Mr. Brightside by the Killers, made a recording of the somewhat terrifying wiring under my desk, doubled it, recorded my hands messing with books, either by turning pages or hastily flipping through them, and finally, I took a sample of the sound of cars passing by. Because my store isn't exactly popular. Most of our books are mystery and romance, and we don't carry any of the current authors, because our stock depends on whatever the community has donated. Which leaves us with an ungodly amount of harlequin romance novels, true crime, children's books galore, and incredibly dated sci-fi. ​Anyway, I think the process wasn't the hard part. Putting everything together wasn't an issue--I like to think I'm quite able when it comes to sound illustration. No, the issue I had was finding time to record the sounds. Namely, timing my recordings with the slow parts of the day. Where I wouldn't have customers muddying up my sound--because I wasn't going for the busy times. I was looking for the slow, crawling, homework inducing times...
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