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Recorded live at The Rymer Audorium, Music Research Centre, York on 17th December 2010 by Tony Myatt.
Recorded live at The Rymer Audorium, Music Research Centre, York on 17th December 2010 by Tony Myatt.
1. Zound Delta (21:52) 2. Bells & Timps (5:30) 3. BuchBel (11:54) Zound Delta was made at a residency with the European Sound Delta Project in 2009. The sounds were recorded from the mouth of the Danube River at the Black Sea, - to about 200km upstream, at Russe Bulgaria. In Russe, there was a festival, and the finished piece was played. There were boats (Belgian barges outfitted as living boats) starting at the mouth of the Danube and the Rhine Rivers, with changing residents, for several m...
Solo saxophone performance inside abandoned seaplane hangar, Tallinn harbour, Estonia. Recorded by John Grzinich, May 29 2010, at the introduction event for Tuned City Tallinn 2011.
Recorded from the desk, live at Corsica Studios, London, on 1st July 2010. With thanks to Tom Relleen.
Ian R. MacLeod reads the short story "Well-Loved" from his collection "Past Magic" (PS Publishing, 2006).
During 2008/9 while working as a sound recordist for BBC Radio 4 Natural History Unit, sound recordist and composer Dr. Tom Lawrence spent six months recording and documenting the sounds above and below the waves of Lough Neagh, the largest water-mass in the British Isles. This programme is a compelling audio-log of those recordings, featuring breath-taking underwater sounds of beetles, frogs, eels, fish and other life. The programme also presents sounds above the water including migratory birds...
Imaginary Hospital Radio mimics and subverts conventional hospital radio and its aim to relieve its listeners/patients through the collaging and dissecting of the visceral and surgical sounds associated with illness and disease. The hospitals unwanted sounds and noise provide an unexpected artistic source, as a kind of sonic tableau an invisible operating theatre in which the sonic/audio auscultation/surgery occurs live to ear. Richard Crow is an inter-disciplinary artist with a strong backgroun...
Live zoning and droning trance meditative exploratory improvised music is created by: Mario Radinovic (Oscillators and multiple effects units) is a London-based musician with a keen interest in frequencies and their effect on human body and mind. Past few years he played with "Break Ups", and art band that eventually broke up, followed by "Oscillosonics". For many years Mario has been occasionally sonically collaborating with Kaffe Matthews, and Iris Garrelfs. Howard Jacques (Melodica, singing, ...
Performed @ Museum Ludwig Kln, July 2000
Chris Watson journeys to the South Pole for the David Attenborough series, The Frozen Planet (BBC, 2011). Here he reports back with his experiences... Photos by Chris Watson & Jason Roberts
This concert was part of Todaysart, Den Haag, Netherlands on 27.09.09. Also appearing as part of the Touch events were Hildur Gudnadottir, Philip Jeck, Jana Winderen and The Eternal Chord. It was recorded straight from the mixing desk to an Ares Pll Nagra digital recorder. Born in Tromso (Norway), Geir Jenssen is better known as Biosphere, a key figure in contemporary Norwegian music. In 1992, Jenssen shot to fame with his Biosphere-debut album "Microgravity", becoming one of the pioneering ambi...
Eighty miles off the coast of mainland Scotland, the archipelago of St Kilda is host to almost a million seabirds each summer. Beginning underwater, this journey takes in the remote island group with its gurgling seawash, gannets and storm petrel before sailing east to the Shiants, home to puffins, guillemots, fulmars and razorbills. Finally, a mix of the exotic and commonplace Carrion crow, wren, herring gulls. heron, ringed plover, cuckoo, oystercatcher, song thrush, common sandpiper heard at ...
1 / f noise While teaching sound art in Cincinnati Ohio's art school DAAP, Montgomery organized sonic tours of the Ceramics Department. The audience was blindfolded and led one by one down 8 flights of stairs into a series of listening stations where ventilators, burning kilns and other machinery were in use (2008). Smoothing Out The Press was composed using the Sound of Sanding from the Crest Hardware Show plus recordings made at Ben Owen's Middle Press in Brooklyn while printing the Ministry o...
Biking in Holland | Tears (Sohrab version) | Tanhayi | Satyr | Tears (Esteban Olenikov version Tundra) | There is an ashtray between us | Tears (Yozhik version) | New Zealand | Barf Recorded and played live in October 2009. Sohrab used reason3 his midi controller (R)evolution uc-16 and a sampler, recorded live through ambrosia recording software.
Xinjiang ("new frontier" in Chinese) or Eastern Turkestan is without doubt the first extremely sensitive zone in China, at least in terms of ethnic conflict between the Hans newcomers and muslim minorities who have a longer history of occupation of those areas. Spread from Mongolia to Afghanistan, it is the biggest Chinese province. I was in the north western part of Xinjiang in the prefecture of ILI, called Yining outside of China and Ghulja by the Turkophones, in May and June 2009...
Rehearsal tapes from The Suffolk Symphony. On August 22nd 2009 Touch will present a multimedia perfomance of The Suffolk Symphony - the culmination of the week's work undertaken during the residency. Faster than Sound comes to the Snape Proms for more experiments in sound and image. Faster Than Sound bring more imaginative experiments with sound and image to the Snape Proms with The Suffolk Symphony, a specially commissioned residency and new work by leading sonic and visual production company T...
Nacre was composed for the experimental music festival 'Skanu mezs' in Riga, Latvia. The premiere of Nacre was held there on 23rd May 2009 in St. Saviour's Anglican Church. [With thanks to Viestarts Gailitis.] For a church organ and light organ Composed by Hildur Gunadttir Performed by Charles Matthews and Hildur Gunadttir Installation by Eln Hansdttir and Hildur Gunadttir Light organ programmed by Derek Holzer Nacre is dedicated to Hildur's grandmother Margrt Gunadttir, who celebrated her 80th ...
Mike Harding was commissioned by The Southbank Centre to record bees for The Bee Symphony, to be performed on Sunday 6th September 2009 at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London as part of Pestival. The Bee Symphony, with music composition by Marcus Davidson (Spire) and bee recordings by Mike Harding diffused by Chris Watson, will be performed at Cross Pollination An Evening of Experimental Insect Music, curated by Chris Watson. The recordings took place at Cherry Garden Farm, Stelling Minnis in Kent,...
Recorded 02.04.09 R'Occult 'n' Roll Music and Magic on the Wild Side Readings by Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey at Treadwell's Books, London. The connections between rock music and the occult range from the legends of bluesmen selling their souls to the Devil for success, through to the influence of Aleister Crowley on the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin in the 60s and 70s, and the Satanic music and imagery of todays Black Metal underground. This talk will cover all these subject...
guest: Carlos Santos Recorded 12.12.08 Dome of the National Pantheon, Lisbon Joo Silva: crystal bowl Paulo Raposo: space multi-channel diffusion and real-time processing Carlos Santos: glass and bell "Book of Hours" was recorded in the remarkable baroque central dome of the National Pantheon in Lisbon. The musicians (and the audience) were 40 meters above ground level on a narrow circular balcony looking out over the abyss. The main sound source was a crystal bowl, played by Joo Silva, which was...
An edited version of the track "Ghost", commissioned as part of "The Space Between Seeing and Knowing is Haunted," an exhibition curated by DL Alvarez at Exile and Arratia, Beer, Berlin [07.02.2009 04.04.2009]. Arranged and produced by Philip Marshall. Voices sourced from "The Ghost Orchid an Introduction to EVP" [PARC, 1999]. Rain recordings courtesy of Dale Cornish.
How to catch a truffle Ancient Greeks, as much in the dark as anyone else when it came to where the white truffle is to be found, shrugged and announced that the tuber magnatum occurred wherever lightning struck the ground. Cobblers, of course, but thats the excuse for beginning this piece with a burgeoning thunder storm in September 2008, on the Barbialla Nuova estate near San Miniato, Tuscany. This is an area famed for its white truffles. Then a truffle hunt, with Imperio, Bobbi and Sabali. Bo...
A submarine-like structure sits on a traffic island in the middle of Akerman Road, London SW9. It was built in the 1970s above the large underground boiler room that provides heat for the Myatts Field estates, which lie on either side of the road. The boilers still heat more than 300 buildings to the south of the road, but their unreliability caused the north-side estate to switch to another heating source in the early 1990s. The heating system was sited underground because to do so was consider...
freq_out 7 took place in September 2008 as part of The Happy New Ears Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. There was also a performance by THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA on Saturday 13th September, which was recorded by Finnbogi Ptursson and mastered by BJNilsen.
Headphones are recommended. Recorded 24/48 with a Rode NT4 stereo mic. The forests and meadows of Northern Arizona's high country are populated by herds of elk, packs of coyotes and a variety of frogs, owls and other wildlife. Camping out overnight can be an exhilarating acoustic experience - as I found out... Waking up in my tent just after one am my immediate thought was that I had entered some weird spirit realm and was hearing the wail of a banshee - what turned out to be a bugling elk. The ...
"The earliest tape used in this radio show comes from 1982 and the most recent is ten years old. AER is/was a name I gave to sound recordings used for the Touch samplers (in particular) and this is no more than an opportunity to clear the cupboards and make the best of them available in one location. None of them benefit from studio production and in the age of easily-available sound recording software, I suppose part of the point is that they are all cassette or minidisk recordings assembled on...
Donadea Forest Recordings, December 2007 to May 2008. 00:00-04:27 Castle Crow's Cacophony (31st December 2007, 7.20am) 04:28-10:23 January Gales 9th January 2008 10.45pm (contains references to 9/11 forest monument and the avenue of trees, captured with contact mics) 10:24-14:48 Forest Rain 12th January 2008 1.15am (extensive flooding) 14:49-20:36 Forest Harmonics 8th March 2008 6.20-11.50am (sampled forest chimes, forestry felling, and the 'carbon chorus' [surrounding motorways]). 20:37-30:47 T...
1. Lindsay Anderson recorded at the memorial service for Andrei Tarkovsky [1932-1986] at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, London 2. Filming The Garden [Derek Jarman, 1990] at Dungeness, Kent. 3. Mrs. Oyler in conversation with Derek Jarman 4. Brick Lane Man, 1988
As part of an ongoing series of recordings of unusual sounds of the Venice lagoon, these tracks were made on 29th april 2008 at 2100 in a night-depot of boats of the public transport service at Riva dei Schiavoni, not far from San Marco square. Headphones are recommended. Recorded 24/96, with binaural stereo mic. "Sapientum super acquis" is the title attribuited to the "Magistrato alle acque" of the Serenissima Venetian Republic, an organ istituited on 1501 by the "Council of ten", that had the ...
Recorded, assembled and produced by Novi_sad, March 2008. Mastered by Electroware and Novi_sad at Dsp Lab, Athens The whole piece is based on field recordings from: Mamori Lake, Amazonia, Brazil Alphios Bridge, Ancient Olympia, Greece Vibrations from the bridge which connects Denmark with Sweden The Heineken Brewery, Greece and hydrophone recordings* from Mamori Lake. Also use were sounds and notes from a church organ. Output signals have been manipulated and electronically treated. Dramazon is ...