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music tagged with: fieldrecording

Lluvia Acida – Insula in albis

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Lluvia Acida

“Insula in albis”

One of our topics of interest as musicians has been the Antarctic – as a natural space, a territory of history, and as a search for understanding. This interest has materialized in various artistic works. The first was the album “Antártikos” (Eolo – INACH, 2005), which told the story of the white continent, through songs and instrumentals from the distant prehistoric past to the present. We were able to present it in 2007 in the gymnasium of “The Eduardo Frei” base on King George Island. But we could only be there for four hours, which was just long enough to play for the Chilean, Korean and Uruguayan staff who attended, and to familiarize ourselves a little with the facilities there.

In 2012 we collaborated with Instituto Antártico Chileno INACH in editing and musicalizing the documentary “El Continente de la Luz: Primeras Expediciones Chilena en la Antártica” (The continent of the light: first expeditions Chilean in the Antarctic), based on historical video footage restored by the Cineteca Nacional. We performed it live during two concerts in Santiago – one at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) and another at the International Book Fair of Santiago (FILSA). At that time, we were already harboring a dream to assemble our own expedition, one that would allow us to return to a place that we had not yet been able to explore in depth.

So we proposed a project to INACH, which was approved and which allowed us to travel at the end of March 2013. We stayed several days on King George Island, recording ambient sounds of radio telecommunications, structures, and other elements. And we were able to gather a large amount of material, as much video as audio, which helped us to compose and record an album and edit a movie.

“Insula in albis” reflects in music and images different aspects of the natural and human life of King George Island: stunning landscapes, native wildlife, men working and communicating through Radio, the effort of Chileans present there, the amazing infrastructure of the “Great wall” base (China), the mysticism of Mother Russia at the base “Bellinghausen,” and the warmth of the base “Artigas” (Uruguay). The theme underlying this work is the cooperation between men of distinct cultures, who represent their countries, but who also share an experience as members of the same human species in this territory – a great example for the rest of a world, divided by diverse conflicts. Thus, we have carried to the limit our concept of electronic music as a tool of not only sonic exploration, but also geographical. We invite you to share with us this journey, one that took us to the last frontier of the Earth, heading to an island that we can never forget…

Lluvia Acida
(Punta Arenas, Magallanes, Chile, August 2013)

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http://www.pueblonuevo.cl/insula-in-albis.htm
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posted 01 September 2013

Aortha – Chronotope

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Aortha

“Chronotope”

Aortha is a sound project of Dzmitry Ladzes from Belarus. In his sound experiments Dzmitry use only the field recording material. Choir of the crowd, symphony of the urban transport and sighs of the wind — his main methods.

The literature for me is bums on the road. When you walk in the marmalade fog and meet Mr. Godot in the end. When you run away from Langoliers, jump into the silent abyss and find a Vincenzo Bernardelli. Bang! And then just silent madness, if was in the heat of an angry somewhere in the Latin America.
It is only literature – fictional world, a world that forces us to abandon reality and to travel without any boundaries.

http://media.zhdk.sonicsquirrel.net/HAZE/HAZE232/09.mp3
http://h-a-z-e.org/archives/1832
http://h-a-z-e.org
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posted 28 August 2013

Secrets Of The 45 – Verdant Peal

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Secrets Of The 45

“Verdant Peal”

“Verdant Peal”, 12th album by Secrets Of The 45 utilizes field recordings collected over two summers to create a set of summer-inspired soundscapes. Ambient, drone, noise, collage, tape music with hints of musique concrete join forces to create a diverse jungle of hazy, sweaty sonic paintings.

Birds in a forest, suburbian lawnmowers, children’s voices, murky tape experiments, children’s toys, distant conversations, prepared vocals emerging and collapsing from the sticky dark, with snippets of musical instruments – tribal drumming or swirling guitars – are sampled, looped and combined to create an effect of dense, disorienting heat much like a confusing dream during a nap in tall grass in the middle of a July day.

http://www.underpolen.com/artysci-artists/sec….
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posted 19 August 2013

Jorge Marredo – Uéyiga

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Jorge Marredo

“Uéyiga”

“Uéyiga”, in the local language of Extremadura (bast territory at the Spanish western border with Portugal) means trace, footprint or marks on the ground, left there from past activities. This is what is all about on the fourth album by Jorge Marredo – this time signing in as himself – and leaving apart the “Satisfaccion Lab” nickname, with he has been releasing for the past years.The four left traces found on this album are a rabbit hole in which Marredo enters, starting up with a clear image, a simple idea, a barely audible soundscape that early is being transformed until no recognition through signal processing with various synthesisers. By the half of the first track we are already in a multilayered scenario of analogue signals processed in various ways. So, the soundscape that started up the album as a clear statement, just fans out, and dissolves into a bast array of textures, rhythms and environments.

Traces are left of various abstract soundscapes present through the album, scenarios in which Marredo, through analogue signal processing devotes himself to the craft of synthesised sound, still even that we hear echoes of the psychodelic and kosmische music he loves to perform an explore (for instance with the duo project Marredo & Montag) this is pretty much a textural, and soundscapist-point-of-view album, even that those electric signals place us in the uncanny territory of machine sound we cannot forget about what started it all, the soundscape, or field recordings. It’s all there, as a trace, a footprint, something that doesn’t needs to be there because Marredo is very capable of listening through soundscapes and present them under his own umbrella, rearranged, transformed and created from nothing but electric signals.

Truly a pleasure to have him in our catalogue, specially when we are very focused on releasing works by our local artists, working neighbourly a few blocks away of the Audiotalaia Headquarters, just like Avelino Saavedra, Jean Montag and a few more.

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posted 16 July 2013

Marsh and May – Falling, More Slowly

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Marsh and May

“Falling, More Slowly”

Linear Obsessional is delighted to present this collection of edited improvisations by British musicians Peter Marsh and Paul May. Exquisitely recorded with an unusual and fascinating use of field recordings “Falling, More Slowly” is an intricately structured and rather beautiful collection…Composed and decomposed by Peter Marsh and Paul May.

Paul May – drums etc
Peter Marsh – other instruments, field recordings, computer.

Available as a limited, numbered edition CDR with inserts, and a free/name you

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posted 10 June 2013

Kayaka – Silence Walk

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Kayaka

“Silence Walk”

KAYAKA is an experimental/ noise/ electronica composer, live performer, born in Tokyo, based in Europe (London, Berlin). She plays electronic and acoustic (bass clarinet, drums, bass guitar, gadgets …etc.) and has a unique, self-taught style of recording and composing. Her music is sometimes called “sonic surrealism”, mixed with those living-life-noise. Live sets are mostly improvised and different each time and she also collaborates with many artists from all around the world. She is a curator of an independent label, Pighole Records since 2007, where she exposes some of her releases and others’ experimental music containing some daily things freely holding onto strong and individual concepts.

This album was made in Ecuador in 2013. As I camped and walked through Amazon jungle with little belongings and thought of being away from human territory. Routine sound there was completely different from those which I was used to hear in my city life. You might need more of your concentration, but you are able to create anything you like in the field of wildness.

Track 6 “colibri” consists of recording I made in Mindo, Ecuador. It is a sound of humming birds. Quite many of them passing and stopping by a recorder I placed next to feeders. – They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which sometimes sounds like bees or other insects. A group of hummingbirds is called a “choir.”- Indeed, powerful vibration sound they have considering their tiny bodies.

http://archive.org/download/zero145/Kayaka-SilenceWalk-01TwiceAMidwife.mp3
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posted 20 May 2013

VA – readymedia – Klangboot Radio #39 ~ It’s a girl!

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VA – readymedia

” Klangboot Radio #39 ~ It’s a girl!”

Artist – Title – Netlabel – Year
01. Ventolyn & Becotyde – The V.H.S Kids – section27netlabel.blogspot.com – 2012
02. Auchre – Artificial Wind – elementperspective04.bandcamp.com – 2013
03. Strehm – Abfahrt Kassel Nord (Original Mix) -…

See full playlist at: www.klangboot.de/?p=844

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posted 14 May 2013

trans alp – randzone

trans alp – randzone

trans alp

“randzone”

this piece starts very silent and builds up rather slowly, but you will be rewarded if you can stand it …

it has been composed on the occasion of an exhibition by sebastian gündel at ausstellungsraum bautzner69 and consists of fieldrecordings and layers of analogue synth lines.

www.sebastian-gündel.de
www.bautzner69.de
credits
released 17 April 2013
written, peformed and recorded by sebastian drichelt.
cover artwork contains photographies by katja dannowski and sebastian drichelt.


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posted 24 April 2013

JASON KAHN – FOR ANGEL

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JASON KAHN

“FOR ANGEL”

‘For Angel’ was my last performance with a set-up I had been touring around the world for many years. This always involved amplified percussion (snare drum, floor tom or bass drum) and electronics (at first computer, later analog synthesizer). But whatever the configuration of the instruments used, in these performances I always felt the main instrument I was playing was the concert space, using the resonance of my percussion to explore the sonic properties of the different rooms I played in. I essentially used feedback from a microphones placed over and under a drum to ‘sound out’ a space. With electronics I was able to hone in on certain frequencies, emphasizing some or canceling others out, stretching the acoustics of a space like a sculpture works with clay or stone. This concert took place in the chapel of the monestary La Cartuja de Cazalla, a space rich in acoustical possibilites. Much like in surfing, I ride out the sound waves in these concerts, pushing and pulling with the space as, much like the Pacific Ocean where I grew up, the sound surges around me, at times nearly knocking me off my balance or hurling me headlong to crash. ‘For Angel’ didn’t end in a crash, but slowly blended out into the evening, hanging above La Cartuja de Cazalla like a starry cloak.
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posted 15 April 2013

Lyndsie Alguire – After Image

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Lyndsie Alguire

“After Image”

The days are numbered before Lyndsie Alguire really starts popping up in our daily lives. Her evocative sounds and deep storytelling teeter on the edge of pop and experimental music, permitting Lyndsie to drench her sweet, simple and delicate melodies into heavy static and profound, complex layers of field-recordings. Her compositions wash over you like a fresh beam of spring morning light, showcasing the minute particles of dust floating into the day.

This also marks the first release of our new series ‘ The Fold ‘. All music will be totally free to download but you can also contribute to the Camomille label group project and buy the limited edition Poster + CDR release, this time featuring photography by the ever talented Sofia Ajram.

It is availble in a limited edition 8.5×11 poster+cdr ( 50 copies ) as well as a free download.
Music by Lyndsie Alguire
Design by La Machine
Photography by Sofia Ajram

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posted 30 March 2013

John Bisset – Van Quixote

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John Bisset

“Van Quixote”

British guitarist John Bisset presents a fantastic selection of his film soundtracks. Originally released on YouTube, the music has been remastered to super Hi-Fi quality.

“I sat in the sun, with the birds making merry, and played my guitar; I took refuge from the rain, wind and even snow, and played my guitar; I repaired the van, and when it was coffee time, I played. In motion, whether on foot or behind the wheel, I sang. As in any other improvising situation I had various options: to follow, to mimic, to conjoin, to oppose, to play on in spite of the racket going on around, to rest on the ambience like a ground bass, or even not to improvise at all but to play a tune… ”
For this album I have selected those pieces which stand alone without imagery.” -from John Bisset’s sleeve notes.

Available as a free download with accompanying 14 page PDF booklet, and as a numbered, limited edition double pack of DVD and audio CD.

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posted 11 March 2013

Alejandro Remeseiro – Suara Sampah

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Alejandro Remeseiro

“Suara Sampah”

Suara Sampah (“Sound Waste” in Indonesian) is a 6 track work by the spanish sound artist and producer Alejandro Remeseiro. Suara Sampah is a sound artwork designed to be carefully listened with headphones; Industrial soundscapes and thrilling drones in a sound that evokes the lack of communication between human beings, the restless seeking of love, and the absurd loneliness of the contemporary world. The intention of the use of repetitive patterns of sound, low frequencies and glitches is to make the listener a bit nervous…but anyway everyone can take these sounds to use as a mirror and try to look at themselves. Maybe the image that this mirror returns to us is not very clear, nice, or even lovely … but, after all, these tracks are just sounds that, in fact, are completely harmless. Or maybe not for you. – Alejandro Remeseiro
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posted 23 February 2013

V.A. – No Labels No Musics 4

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V.A.

“No Labels No Musics 4”

The electro-music.com/EdP sound collage project “No Labels No Musics” challenges musicians to create original compositions from an existing field recording archive. Participants are limited to field recordings as the only sound sources, but are encouraged to chop, mutilate, and process until cooked to desired flavor.
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http://archive.org/details/edp058
http://doporto.pt.to
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posted 07 January 2013

Enrique Tomás – Sense of place

Enrique Tomás – Sense of place
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Enrique Tomás

“Sense of place”

Seyðisfjörður (Iceland) is the northest latitude where I have ever been on Earth (October 2012). A permanent drone of blue noise covers everything at every moment due to hundreds torrents conducting water from glaciers to the sea. The always changing weather destroys whatever humans try to build there, converting old fishing industries into oxidated landscapes. Underwater field recordings, sound improvisations with found objects and Icelandic language conformed the sonic architecture of the work, articulated into a number of proposed scenes where listeners will be self-located through their aural imagination.

Der Hirsch des Wahnsinns is one of the verses of "Al Infierno" ("To Hell") by the Spanish poet Leopoldo María Panero. This poem and some others by Rainer María Rilke, Rafael Alberti and John Milton were used at a soundwalk commissioned in 2010 for the gardens surrounding a famous statue of the Fallen Angel in Madrid. Updating some of those sound materials (in binaural format) with some new others (in ambisonic format) I propose you the listening of an acousmatic composition inspired by the Fallen Angels, understanding them as those who, though created as good beings, freely chose the wrong way..

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posted 14 December 2012

Tension Co – “El Olvido”

Tension Co – “El Olvido”

Tension Co

“El Olvido”

El Olvido, the fourth work of Tension Co. was recorded and mastered in the Laboratory
Intr: Muros. (Seville) in June 2012, and the first without the presence of Miriam Blanch, who earlier this year left the group temporarily for work purposes. It is his darkest work and personal, and a certain melancholy aftertaste to date. It is a product of a sono-emotional time in recent past that perhaps there were more shadows than lights, although the latter shone with sufficient strength to move forward and make this work.
Enter field recordings, a cello made ​​Isabel Garcia ‘Drunkenstrings’ and others in the Doñana National Park with Miriam and Juan Carlos Blanch White in the piece’s title track and ‘Duna’.
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posted 14 December 2012

Augustus Bro & Gallery Six – The Sun Rises In Thousands Of Lakes And Forests (EP)

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Augustus Bro & Gallery Six

“The Sun Rises In Thousands Of Lakes And Forests (EP)”

■ EPV_113 ”千の森湖に、日出づる(EP)” Augustus Bro & Gallery Six

:: free download ::
http://elementperspective04.bandcamp.com/album/ep
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Title is a combination words…symbolize of Japan words “Land of the Rising Sun, Japan”, symbolize of Finland words “tuhansien järvien ja metsien maa”. We named to this EP from the feeling that want to become a bridge between Japan and Finland.

■ bonus item
wallpaper for PC & postcard (png. data / 100×148mm)
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all tracks are written, mixed by Sami Bro and Hidekazu Imashige 
mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
photo by Hidekazu Imashige 
artwork by ono (elementperspective) 
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■ Gallery Six 
:: soundcloud :: 
http://soundcloud.com/gallery-six
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■ Augustus Bro (Sami Bro) 
:: soundcloud :: 
http://soundcloud.com/augustus-bro 
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posted 10 December 2012

Jean Montag – Unquiet

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Jean Montag

“Unquiet”

Considering that for Jean Montag a very tasty meal has to be croquettes (mainly) we are going to use them as a metaphor. We might say that this “Unquiet”, that he kindly delivered to our catalogue, is a very nicely baked couple of croquettes. Two croquettes full of different ingredients, mushed up, processed sounds and all sorts of scenarios and scenes were to get lost and found. On every bite we discover a new space a new environment. Before we loose the taste of the last bite we are already on the next, swallowing what Montag has prepared for us.

Finally this release, in it’s shape of a sonic “tapa”, is a very interesting work because it doesn’t lasts for too long (something I’m worried all the time with) but still, with this short time space he is able to surprise the listener at every step and present a complex work in terms of sound design and composition that lead me to desserts already missing what I have ate.

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posted 04 December 2012

Baby – Near Wanstonia

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Baby

“Near Wanstonia”

Recorded by a stretch of the A12, built in east London in the 1990s, ‘Near Wanstonia’ is an atmospheric journey, a distillation of a rich variety of sounds.

Almost twenty years ago, large scale protests against the construction of the road were ignored and Wanstonia was one of several ‘free states’ set up by occupying environmental activists along the proposed route.

The album, although at times resonant of sadness felt, is also a resilient, optimistic and an occasionally humorous expression of sonic life by the fast lane.

Previously known as Vole and ViV, the group’s third release is also a photographic exhibition with the recordings

Release includes PDF Booklet of notes and photographs.
Available soon…

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posted 26 November 2012

VA – Klangboot Radio #36

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VA

“Klangboot Radio #36”

New Untitled electronica ans ambient podcast. Full of love. Enjoy!

Find the full playlist and hq download on the release page.

Playlist (Artist – Title – Netlabel – Year):
1. Point – Sunshine – http://www.digital-diamonds.com – 2012
2. Sg – Crystal Cave –http://www.deepxrec.com – 2012
3. Radio for the Daydreamers – …

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posted 21 November 2012