philippe neau – unknown at this moment
[PT105]
philippe neau
“unknown at this moment”
all sounds, photo, mastering by philippe neau
posted 05 July 2020
music tagged with: fieldrecording
Martin Rach – Dog and the City 3
Martin Rach
“Dog and the City 3”
Improvisations with recordings of walks with a dog and other textures
posted 29 June 2020
Martin Rach – Movements in an Old House 2
Martin Rach
“Movements in an Old House 2”
Improvisations with volcas, organ and various objects
posted 29 June 2020
Roberto Vodanović Čopor – Nobody
[GFR, 131]
Roberto Vodanović Čopor
“Nobody”
Roberto Vodanović Čopor is a multimedia artist from Zadar, Croatia. Born in Split in 1970. He released the music for various independent publishers from the region but also from Europe and America. In his music he often combines the sounds of nature or the sounds of cities, and as a background he uses the sounds created from everyday objects. He has published three collections of poetry “Insomnia”, “Almost a Little Book”, “Walls are barking”. His poetry has been included in several collections of the group of authors. He publishes poetry on various regional portals for culture and art. He is also an author or co-author of several performances that he often performs as part of his concerts. So far, he has had several exhibitions of his art works. He has exhibited at several group exhibitions.
posted 23 June 2020
Rosa Angelini – Hay una conspiracion en la tierra
[pn157]
Rosa Angelini
“Hay una conspiracion en la tierra”
“Hay una conspiración en la tierra” (“There is a conspiracy in the land”) statement by activist Angela Davis, enlightens this reflective musical act, standing up for Mother Earth and Human Rights, through latinamerican indigenous women, people, and world activists voices, sounds and resistance. It is a journey and, at the same time, a discourse, moving across acoustic and electronic textures, samples, soundscapes, world music and soundtracks, accompanied by protest performance actions, ritual, chants and dances by Mapuche performer artist and activist Lorenza Aillapán, and Rosa Angelini.
This sound-research-creative work generated an intermedia piece, a multimedia collective mise-en-scene (Ritual), fusing sound-and-music, performance art in socially and politically symbolic public spaces, by a female cast and live music, mingling powerful speeches and songs by global feminist and environmental movements, calling up to defend Mother Earth, Human Rights and aborigin tribes.
This mise-en-scene was premiered in May 2019 at “2do encuentro internacional de trabajadoras de las culturas y las artes” (II International Meeting of Women Culture and Art Workers) opening, at Teatro Solís open area in Montevideo, Uruguay, using Live Cinema techniques and an international cast of 50 performer artists. It has also been staged in Chile, at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) frontis, Ventana-Quintero sacrificial area, and Plaza de la Dignidad, as an opening rite for International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020.
“Hay una conspiración en la tierra” is 30 minutes long. This version is a sample of the final scene (Mother Earth ritual).
Rosa Angelini.
(Santiago, junio / June, 2020)
English version by Gerardo Figueroa.
posted 19 June 2020
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay – The Nomadic Listener
[Gruen 201]
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
“The Nomadic Listener”
This is a parallel release from The Nomadic Listener – an augmented book project on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation. The book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of major contemporary cities, such as Copenhagen, Berlin, Brussels, Leipzig, The Hague, Graz, London, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, and others, through situated writing and field recording. Each text is an act of contemplative listening, where the artist/author records his surrounding environment and attempts to attune to the sonic fluctuations of movement and the passing of events. Each corresponding sound attempts to trace these nomadic interactions in unedited field recording. What surfaces is a collection of meditations on the minutiae of life movingly interwoven with the author’s own memories, associations, desires and reflections. The release and publication are entwined by a QR code for an augmented listening experience that draws up a tender map of contemporary cities, and the often lonely, surprising, and random interactions found in urban navigation.
posted 15 June 2020
Grafofonía y Ex Teresa Arte Actual – Ecos cotidianos: escuchar en pausa
Grafofonía y Ex Teresa Arte Actual
“Ecos cotidianos: escuchar en pausa”
Flujo sonoro de reflexiones en torno al cambio aural que percibimos en este momento desde y en nuestras casas. Agradecemos la participación de quienes nos compartieron su sentir a través de sus grabaciones.
posted 04 June 2020
MOHER – Antropoceno Auto-Infligido
[mi266]
MOHER
“Antropoceno Auto-Infligido”
Joana Moher only grants us a one-way ticket on a trip that will be ours alone, everything we find, whether abstract or objective, is something that only we keep inside. On the launching pad, the viewer has to disconnect from what he sees to start feeling what is going on inside him.
Microseconds of life memorized and stored in the depths of our daily lives. Some of which we can unveil in the projections that our thinking makes throughout this experience.
A psychedelic work in abstraction, geometric in error, sublime in mantra. Outdoor and everyday recordings that are stitched and manipulated for the purpose of flashback, retention or repression of our attention as an active receiver of our daily lives.
MAI 2020
posted 27 May 2020
Jose Miguel Candela – Rezos
[pn155]
Jose Miguel Candela
“Rezos”
The following collection of prayers intends to establish a kind of intimate, microscopic, deep kinesics, an inner “small dance” that opens up introspection, meditation and / or contemplation paths. It is important, therefore, to consider that this set should not be understood as a religious production. Tao Te King (foundation for Taoist philosophy), insightfully states in its XXVIII epigram that religiousness is only an appearance of loyalty, but destitution of a real spiritual dimension.
These prayers represent an austere act of ancestral memory, an attempt to voice out a compound of elemental imagery found in many worldviews of the most diverse aboriginal cultures. It is incarnated through singing (an embodiment act) in order to share a willingness to connect with something I consider essential, something we cannot name (for by naming it, it is undone), the ancient, irrational core of all things living. Because of this, I invite you to listen to these pieces not as a work of art, even though they live as musical sound (not electroacoustic this time, but appealing to ambient music). The invitation is, through listening, to build up that bridge (pons + ifice, the bridge builder) that connects us and that primal, atavistic footprint living silently inside of us.
Five years after a homemade, very limited first release, I share this digital-only, free-download reissue via Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel. It is a small gift, looking forward to accompanying (us), one way or another, during these complex, critical (political, social, health, spiritual) moments we are going through as a planetary society.
José Miguel Candela
(Santiago, Chile. Mayo / May 2020)
English version by Gerardo Figueroa.
posted 22 May 2020
Acoustic Mirror – Ecos
[self/noise #12]
Acoustic Mirror
“Ecos”
self/noise nació en la primavera de 2013 como la extensión de una práctica – la práctica del activismo sonoro y la investigación sonora militante. Una práctica que iniciamos con la primera manifestación del 15 de mayo del 2011, y con las primeras horas de la ocupación de la Puerta del Sol de Madrid: todo esto que llamamos el #15M.
Desde aquellos inicios, arrancamos un largo camino de investigación y aprendizaje. En ocasiones, hemos tenido la oportunidad de emitir grabaciones de campo de acampadas, asambleas y calles tomadas por el #15M el mismo día que las habíamos realizado. Las llamábamos nuestras emisiones especiales, y, sí, reconocemos que eran bastante caóticas y ruidosas.
Hemos dedicado programas a nuestros antecesores, artistas y colectivos de activismo sonoro que nos han inspirado, como Christopher DeLaurenti (sobre todo, sus grabaciones de campo de la Batalla de Seattle de 1999), o la larga trayectoria del colectivo Ultra-red.
En algunas ocasiones, nos hemos centrado en las formas y prácticas de escucha activa. En 2013 nos sumamos al #WorldListeningDay, que fue, de lejos, el #WLD más comprometido con la escucha como práctica política.
En otras, nos interesábamos por las prácticas sonoras de resistencia y protesta. Así que dedicamos un programa especial a las caceroladas y a otras formas de /rough music/. Cómo no, también nos interesaba el uso del sonido por parte el poder. De ahí, nuestro programa dedicado a las armas sonoras (que sabemos que os gusta mucho).
Pero el sonido no ocurre en un vacío. Relacionarse con el paisaje sonoro es también conocer los espacios que habitamos. En 2014, dedicamos un programa especial a los paseos sonoros, y al caminar como práctica artística y política. (Grabamos el programa, por supuesto, caminando.) Y, en 2016, nos sumamos al proyecto La ciudad demudada, que investigaba las transformaciones que sufría la ciudad de Málaga en manos de la gentrificación.
Ha pasado bastante tiempo. El contexto y las circunstancias han cambiado. El paisaje sonoro se ha transformado. Nuestra práctica ha evolucionado. Nos guste o no, estamos, literalmente, lejos de aquellas plazas. Pero en algunas cabezas todavía resuenan los ecos de aquello.
Ahora, hemos vuelto. self/noise #12: «Ecos» es un collage sonoro de momentos destacados captados por nuestros micrófonos desde la primera manifestación del #15M y las primeras horas de la #AcampadaSol hasta los últimos estragos del movimiento allá por 2014. «Ecos» fue presentado por primera vez dentro de la instalación Listening Point en la exposición colectiva La Situación 2016, en la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca.
Emitido el mismo día 15 de mayo de 2020, en el noveno aniversario del inicio de aquellos acontecimientos, «Ecos» pretende ser un homenaje, una celebración, y también una re-evaluación de aquel momento. «Ecos» es un pequeño laberinto/mapa mental de espacios acústicos, que busca encontrar ecos de un futuro posible.
self/noise es un programa dedicado al activismo sonoro, a la escucha situada, y a la investigación sonora militante. Se emite con una temporalidad variable, pero con una persistencia a prueba de bombas.
posted 16 May 2020
MZ N-710 – Chemin de Fer du Haut-Forez / Haut-Forez Railway
MZ N-710
“Chemin de Fer du Haut-Forez / Haut-Forez Railway”
Track 1 : En cabine de Craponne-sur-Arzon à Sembadel / Inside cabin from Craponne-sur-Arzon to Sembadel
Track 2 : Retour de Pontempeyrat à Usson-en-Forez / Return from Pontempeyrat to Usson-en-Forez
Comments :
Ces enregistrements ont été faits lors de mon voyage à bord de l’autorail X 2807 du Chemin de Fer du Haut-Forez le 30 juillet 2019. L’association du CFHF, basée à Estivareilles (42), fait circuler des trains touristiques sur la partie réhabilitée de la ligne Bonson – Sembadel, reliant autrefois Saint-Etienne à la Haute-Loire en direction de la Chaise-Dieu et d’Ambert, ligne de montagne au profil difficile, au long de laquelle on découvre des paysages enchanteurs. Le premier enregistrement a été réalisé dans la cabine de l’autorail entre Craponne-sur-Arzon et Sembadel (Haute-Loire), aux côtés du conducteur. On perçoit le tintamarre caractéristique du moteur MGO de 825 cv et le klaxon, souvent actionné à l’approche des nombreux passages à niveau. Je remercie les bénévoles de l’association qui m’ont autorisé à enregistrer dans ces conditions exceptionnelles. Le second enregistrement a été capté pendant le voyage du retour entre Pontempeyrat où la ligne franchit l’Ance sur un impressionnant viaduc et Usson-en-Forez (42). Dans la remorque de l’autorail, les voix et les rires des passagers se détachent sur la “musique” du train, souvenir inoubliable des voyages de mon enfance.
Matériel d’enregistrement : Olympus LS-10
These recordings have been done when I travelled on the X 2807 “autorail” of the Haut-Forez Railway on July 30th, 2019. The CFHF association runs trains on the remaining part of the Bonson to Sembadel line, that used to connect Saint-Etienne to Haute-Loire department, on the way to la Chaise-Dieu and Ambert, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. This difficult moutain line runs through stunning landscapes. I recorded the first track in the conductor’s cabin between Craponne-sur-Arzon and Sembadel (Haute-Loire). The typical hubbub of the 825 hp MGO engine can be heard, as the hooter often rings, warning from many level-crossings. I thank the volunteers of the association who allowed me to record in these exceptional conditions. The second track was taken during return between Pontempeyrat, where the line crosses Ance river on an impressive viaduct, and Usson-en-Forez (Loire). In the trailer, voices and laughs of the passengers blend with the train’s “music”, unforgettable memory of my childhood journeys.
Recording device : Olympus LS-10
posted 16 May 2020
B.Toriyama – Riverside of Uji
[OMOIDE 201]
B.Toriyama
“Riverside of Uji”
「近年、京都アニメーション作品に影響され宇治市に聖地巡礼を重ねるうちに、現地そのものに魅了され、「この景色を音に収めたい」と胸に抱く様になりました。
写真や動画、あるいは京アニ作品のブートレグに収めるのも良いですが、ここの空気の美味さは収めきれないでしょう。音にすることでいつでもその間宇治に帰れると思いました。
2019年11月にフィールドレコーディング後、暫く音源や制作に手つかずのまま、時勢は思わぬ方向に進み、遠い場所が更に手の届かない遠くへと離れていってしまいました。ようやく2020年3月に全ての収録曲を完成致しました。
この作品はアンビエントミュージックとして、リラックスした環境で楽しんで頂けますが、特に、このご時世で行きたくても行けない、帰りたくても帰れない、そんな方々の元に寄り添えられれば幸いです。」
Produced by B.Toriyama
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Location Recording at Uji City, Kyoto(2019.11.05-06)
Photograph by fuamai!
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posted 03 May 2020
Toni Dimitrov – Bucharest Sketches
[GFR, 129]
Toni Dimitrov
“Bucharest Sketches”
Toni Dimitrov – Bucharest Sketches (GFR, 129)
This is the fifth in the series of field recordings albums from the field recordist and sound artist Toni Dimitrov dedicated to a city. After the field recordings from Athens (released on Green Field Recordings), Milan and Ioannina (released on Auriculab), and Belgrade (released on Silber Records), this time the sketches are recorded in Bucharest during his stay in Romania for field recordings residency in the Danube delta, in the summer of 2019. In the piece you can hear the recordings from the Bucharest streets, parks, the noise from the rain, fountains, etc., interweaving subtly, blurring the line between field recording and sound art.
Toni Dimitrov
posted 17 April 2020
Duelling Ants – Random Gestures
Duelling Ants
“Random Gestures”
Random Gestures is an exploration of organic and spacial textures emerging from controlled and uncontrolled (random) processes. Soundscapes are «carved» out of landscapes of field recordings and sonic textures, with asynchronus parts and overdubs that creates micro melodies and unexpected bits. Improvisation with piano and acoustic guitar.
Tracks were recorded in 2019 using tape and tape loops on Tascam 414 mkII and Marantz pmd221, OP-1, Organelle, VCV Rack, Ableton and Max For Live, Avalanche Run, guitar, piano (Labs and Lekko) and field recordings.
The album is mastered by myself at a very basic level, so please listen on a good stereo or on decent headphones.
Thanks for listening !
credits
released February 2, 2020
posted 13 April 2020
Haz – Geräuschcollage Hamburg
[s65054]
Haz
“Geräuschcollage Hamburg”
The seventh and final sub65 installment of the multi-netlabel hosted, ‘Final Fight Series’ by the various projects of Mathias Aeschlimann
posted 01 April 2020
Cedrik Fermont – Recordings for quarantined people and those flying to Mars
[Sdig004]
Cedrik Fermont
“Recordings for quarantined people and those flying to Mars”
Composed in Cape Town, South Africa.
Field recordings made in Mbabane, eSwatini (insects and batrachian, 2020) and Nairobi, Kenya (insects, rain and water, 2018).
Gong recorded in Singapore at The Observatory Studio (2016).
If you find yourself locked in a small space, whether it is because of a quarantine, or you have been jailed or you are sick and cannot move or you travel in the vacuum of space towards Mars or else, you will most likely miss the sounds of nature).
credits
released March 20, 2020
Composed, recorded and mastered by Cedrik Fermont, 20 March 2020.
Thanks to Vivian Wang for giving me the opportunity to stay at The Observatory Studio and spend some nights to record there.
Photo and cover by C-drík. cdrk@syrphe.com
Published by Syrphe syrphe.com
Catalogue number : Sdig004
posted 22 March 2020
Rogelio Nobara & Chris Silver T – Humming Bard
[SR214]
Rogelio Nobara & Chris Silver T
“Humming Bard”
Greece/Mexico
Released 2/3/2020
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https://soundcloud.com/rogelio-nobara
Released 2/3/2020
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https://soundcloud.com/rogelio-nobara
posted 02 March 2020
Various Artist – Where Shade Once Was
Various Artist
“Where Shade Once Was”
Dedicated to everyone working to protect the Earth’s ecosystems. All proceeds we receive from this album will be donated to Earthjustice.
credits
released February 13, 2020
Compiled by Herbert Quain
Mastered by Colin Bennun at Stooodio Mastering
Art by Cult of Sharon
posted 22 February 2020
Roland Etzin – Augsburg 2019
[ACP 1228]
Roland Etzin
“Augsburg 2019”
live @ Ganze Bäckerei, Augsburg, 11.05.19
recording, pre-mastering by EMERGE
final mastering and design by Roland Etzin
ROLAND ETZIN
works in the genres of field recordings and audio art. He is co-founder of the recordlabel Gruenrekorder and the Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music. He also is part of the electronic music formation Autumn Appreciation Society.
posted 03 February 2020
Great, Green Stones… – Works from the Absurd Pool in January
[s65046]
Great, Green Stones…
“Works from the Absurd Pool in January”
This mini-album contains created tracks based on field recordings that have been minimally edited with a ‘gate’ effect on Ableton Live. The recordings on this album mainly contain sounds of background noise, the experimentation of blowing into pool noodles to make a horn-like timbre and some other electronic experimental glitches and minimal sounds. This is delivered all in 8 kbps MP3 files, which are all converted to a Mono output. The sample rate of all the files is placed at 12.000 kHz.
posted 02 February 2020
Walter Fini + Philippe Neau – white project
[mhrk232]
Walter Fini + Philippe Neau
“white project”
Spectra collide in synergy in “white project” – the essential result of the continuous collaboration between Phlippe “nobodisoundz” Neau and Walter Fini, which began a few years back. The release comprises of 3 compositions that revolve around the deafening and conflicting relationship that man has with nature, the dominant force and protagonist of our doings. The sounds shine through and envelope our daily lives totally, in a deafening, chaotic way. White as the color, which absorbs everything, which contains everything, wrapped in nothing. White is a sheet, where instinctive sound dimensions take shape, where a simultaneously abstract and concrete vision takes us to the ancestral roots of the human being.
released February 1, 2020
posted 01 February 2020
Barely Hearable – Gewitter Home
[GT1192]
Barely Hearable
“Gewitter Home”
posted 29 January 2020
fsks – floral electronics
[LF111MP3]
fsks
“floral electronics”
fsks 1st full length album. chillout soundscape masterpiece with melancholic melodies reminiscent of sweet & beautiful scenes.
posted 27 January 2020
Flooba – Uneasy Immersion
[NN_LP081_01_20]
Flooba
“Uneasy Immersion”
Debut in Nostress Netlabel for italian artist Flooba. The new digital album “Uneasy Immersion” is a work of reverie aimed at joining different places and sound moments that take on significance as an experience of the human impact on the world, or as an experience of moments of existential transition: soundwalking in dilapidated abandoned factories (such as the Keyes of Fiumefreddo – CT – IT); field recordings in condominium courtyards in which micro and macro sound landscapes overlap; slow guitar sessions during the agonizing “controra” in a deserted city. Spatial universes in which silences reverberate to be filled with their own subjective internal vibrations, in sometimes restless sound sessions that try to describe the difficult immersion within reality itself. This work has been presented as live for the past editions of A / Grounds, the Bolognese showcase of labels that deal with Ambient music.
posted 27 January 2020
Barely Hearable – Sturmwanderung
[GT1191]
Barely Hearable
“Sturmwanderung”
posted 19 January 2020
