“Scooter and Jinx” as interpreted by D

I made this Sonic Youth cover using a handful of field recordings I gathered earlier this fall with my daughter while staying in the Adirondacks. Everyday, promptly at 12pm, the town of Keene Valley sounds the noon whistle - a civil defense siren that makes a short wail that echoes through the mountains. Every few days we would hike to a new place to setup our field recorder; in the middle of an old twisty mountain road, next to a trout stream, in the middle of a clearing guarded by screechy squirrels.

I’ve been wanting to use these recordings for a Basement Sketches project and “Scooter and Jinx” seemed like a reasonable excuse.

-Chris Danforth

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