AtDDtA1: Foley Walker

[Dave Monroe]

   "'This is Foley Walker,' said Scarsdale Vibe, 'in
whom his mother claims to find virtues not immediately
apparent to others.'" (AtD, Pt. I, Ch. 3, p. 31)


Who's his mother?  What virutes?  Which others?


Foley Walker

O'FOLEY, FOLEY : O'FOGHLADHA  MEANING: `descendant of
Foghladha'. (The name meant `pirate, plunderer'.) ...

http://www.gwp.enta.net/irishhist.htm

The surname Foley is the anglicised form of the Irish
name Ó Foghladha, (from foghladha meaning a
plunderer).... The name Ó Foghladha was sometimes
phonetically as Fowloo or Fowler.

http://www.irishgen.com/surnames/details.asp?surname_id=50

Foley Coat of Arms and Name History

The original Gealic form of Foley was O Foghladha,
derived from the word foghladha, which emans
plunderer....

[...]

Motto translated: That I may be of use [Ut prosim]

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.c/qx/foley-coat-arms.htm

"Foley walker" is a term used to indicate a
sound-effects expert. Also known as a foley artist. 

Coalhouse Walker is a major character in Doctorow's
Ragtime, mentioned earlier as a book set within the
same time period.... 

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_26-56#Page_31

The Foley artist on a film crew is the person who
creates and records many of the natural, everyday
sound effects in a film, in contrast to the production
of special (audio) effects, which is generally left to
the sound designer. The roles of Foley artists, sound
designers, editors, and supervisors are highly
specialized and are essential to producing a
professional-sounding soundtrack that is suitable for
distribution and exhibition....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist

Foley: Live Sound Effects

Live Performance

In performances before studio audiences, foley adds
considerable visual interest. A foley walker for such
a set-up needs stage presence, showmanship and a good
ear. S/he also must know when to give and take stage,
for a real hambone working the sound effects can
easily upstage the actors. Perhaps that explains why
radio sfx personnel in the old days belonged to AFRA,
an actors' union. 

Typically, the foley gear is arrayed on and around a
table off to one side of the stage or performance
area. One mike covers the table and another the floor.
 The table mike never sits on the table but is shock
mounted on a floor stand high enough to capture vocal
effects, such as dog barks, hoot owls, raspberries,
gurgles, bubbles and assorted moans and groans. One or
two foley walkers, more if needed, do all the live
sound effects....

http://www.natf.org/wad/foley.htm

Art of Foley

Since the 1930s, teh work of the Foley artist has been
an important part of any film soundtrack.  Capturing
every audible nuance of an actor's movements, we toil
to recreate reality and make it sound better!

The Art of Foley is a tutorial designed to educate and
inspire those interested in the craft of film sound
effects.

http://www.marblehead.net/foley/

As I recall, to "recreate reality" and thus "make it
... better" rarely go hand in glove in Those
Pynchonian Texts.  Let me know ...


Walker

Occupational surname for a fuller, or person who
walked on damp raw cloth in order to thicken it.
Derived from the Middle English "walkcere," meaning "a
fuller of cloth," and derived from the Old English
"wealcan," to walk or tread.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/w/bl_name-WALKER.htm

In the north of England and south of Scotland a
fulling-mill is still called a walk-mill. This name
may signify either a fuller or an officer whose duty
consisted in walking or inspecting a certain space of
forest ground.

http://www.last-names.net/surname.asp?surname=Walker

English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish:
occupational name for a fuller, Middle English
walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of
wealcan ‘to walk, tread’. This was the regular term
for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western
and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker. As a
Scottish surname it has also been used as a
translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the
fuller’.

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&yr=0&ln=Walker

... and let me knoe if I missed anything, Tim,
eveeryone, but I believe here's where I am to hand
back the baton to our esteemed Host of Hosts ...


 
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