"In Spring 2013 I was part of an ornithological survey (bird migration census) in a desert area in the Nile Valley, Egypt. Our team lived, considering local conditions, in a rather modern building in a town called Sandafa Al Far. Apart from the actual work, our standardised observations, I most of the time made sound recordings of birds, amphibians, insects and the general soundscape in the vicinity of our house. Sometimes guarded by two policemen (because of an allegedly unsafe situation after ...
Oct 25, 2015•29 min
Performed live at Resonant Forms on 11th September 2015 in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Also live that night were Simon Scott & Jen Boyd. With thanks to Volume, Rafa Esparza and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
Sep 21, 2015•24 min
"After a heat wave of almost one month in the south of France this is the sound of that first rainy morning at the swimming pool. I recorded the rain and thunder in the countryside near Quissac (between Nmes and Montpellier) with 2 Line Audio CM3 microphones in a spaced pair configuration into a Mixpre-D into a Sony PCM-M10."
Aug 28, 2015•15 min
"Mark (Van Hoen) and I visited the tunnels underneath downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Many miles of these tunnels are closed to the public, but a section underneath the city archive collection is open. We recorded using an iPhone 6 and a Zoom H6. One of the signs had been adapted to read SOUNDs HORNy.
Jun 24, 2015•26 min
To call this field recording would be crediting the situation with more adventure than it deserves. At five in the morning, with a hangover starting to percolate, the ideal conditions are surely to just roll over, hit record and go back to sleep and that is pretty much what happened here. End of disclaimer. Boats, whether out at sea or in harbour, have a particular vocabulary of sounds. On the water, they are masked by the white noise of the ocean, in which as many sailors have reported you can ...
May 31, 2015•10 min
The word gibbet is used both to refer to an executional structure and to a hanging iron cage that used to display the remains of executed prisoners; when someone is thusly displayed, it is known as gibbeting. Recording the wooden gibbet in 2012, believed to be haunted burial site and located at Caxton in Cambridgeshire, to capture the sound of the gallows wood (elm) and saproxylic (dead wood) invertebrates (beetles) that lived within it was a challenge because of the vast amount of traffic that ...
May 03, 2015•32 min
This composition features unprocessed recordings from Krafla Geothermal Power Station and the nearby mudpools and steam vents of Hverir in Northern Iceland. The recordings were made in June 2014, on the Wildeye sound recording course led by Chris Watson and Jez Riley French, using a SoundField SPS200 and JrF contact microphones. The composition draws upon the spatial experiences of recording at these sites, journeying from the booming, all-encompassing drone emitting from the boreholes; through ...
Apr 05, 2015•27 min
"Inspired by BJ Nilsen's performance at LACE in Los Angeles last month, I decided to attempt my own composition using field recordings. The source recordings are quite crude in comparison to those made by the great Mr Nilsen; I even used only an iPhone to collect the recordings; but after a little judicious use of processing back at the studio, I am pleased with the results. On leaving LACE after the show, I noticed how many homeless were sleeping in the doorways at the back of the venue, where ...
Feb 14, 2015•22 min
Recorded by Myke Dodge Weiskopf at Touch presents... Live in Los Angeles, 21st January 2015. With thanks to LACE, VOLUME and especially Yann Novak.
Jan 21, 2015•36 min
Field recording of fireworks on Saint John's Night, June 23, 2014, the local pagan inheritor celebration of the Summer Solstice. Recording by Heitor Alvelos on Bruce Geduldig and Bernadette Martou's balcony, Porto, Portugal. The vantage point, overlooking the tail end of the Douro river from a considerable height, allows the acoustic experience to become as impressive as the visual: the sound of the fireworks travels back and forth through the valley in considerable detail. Recent trends in mass...
Jan 03, 2015•16 min
NYE Berlin-Schneberg 31.12.2014
Dec 31, 2014•38 min
In May 2014, we were lucky enough to have direct access to the great machines of the industrial revolution on display in Londons Science Museum; the Mill Engine, by the Burnley Ironworks company, 1903, the Difference Engine No2, by Charles Babbage 1849. Sound has been integral in the relationship of the machines and their operators; used as a primary diagnostic tool, the sound of various operating components reveal the machines state of well being. Operators listened to the song of their engines...
Nov 30, 2014•19 min
Repose was a site specific performance in Cocky Eeks inflatable performance space, Sphr, commissioned by the 2014 AxS Festival in Pasadena, California. The performance highlighted this unique space through a gesture-less performance of sound and light. The piece is comprised of a purely synthesized sound devoid of traditional compositional elements and was accompanied by 180 projections of pure color. Repose is presented here in a longer form to take advantage of the digital format. Photo: Terry...
Oct 31, 2014•42 min
3 mixes, 3 directional speakers, sound installation 2014, Jiyeon Kim @ SeMa Biennale MediaCity Seoul 'Grandmothers' Lounge - From the Other Side of Voices' is a joint work of radio producer Sang-il Choi (KR) and sound artist Jiyeon Kim (KR), commissioned by SeMa Biennale MediaCity Seoul 2014. Largely based on Sang-il Choi's anthropological audio recordings of folksongs and stories of grandmothers from South Korea, Jiyeon Kim made this sound installation adopting 3 directional speakers. This mix ...
Sep 30, 2014•15 min
In Spring 2009, I find myself by chance just a few hours by boat from Japans last frontier, the island of Iriomote, but I had no way to get there. Not enough time. Total frustration. The southern most island of Japan is 90% covered with rainforest and mangrove and home to many local species including not only insects, frogs and birds, but also Ryukyu flying foxes and the famous cat-leopard called Yamaneko, which was only discovered in 1965. I make a promise to myself to return, even for short ti...
Aug 31, 2014•28 min
Since technical evolution tends to unfold rapidly, human beings have not been able to evolve a (forewarning) sense of new forms of technology (for instance to detect radioactivity). Electronic emissions are also not sensually detectable. No one knows exactly how the technology of wireless transmitting devices affects humans. Radio, television, radiotelephones, mobile phones, GPS, computers, bluetooth and WiFi routers flood every place on earth with countless electronic waves. Recordings of a sta...
May 20, 2014•44 min
Howlround are the duo of Robin The Fog and Chris Weaver who create recordings and performances entirely from manipulating natural acoustic sounds on a quartet of vintage reel-to-reel tape machines - with additional reverb or electronic effects strictly forbidden. This recording documents their first ever live performance at the Brighthelm Centre as part of the Resonance FM stage at the Great Escape Festival, Brighton, 18th May 2013. It was the first time these delicate, bulky, unpredictable mach...
Mar 06, 2014•18 min
Sunrise at Wandsworth Common railway station, London Photo: Pepa Ivanova
Feb 15, 2014•2 min
So we pause where we began, with BJNilsen (see TouchRadio 1)... Archival Recordings, Mixed in Berlin October 23, 2013, containing Bits and Pieces from: Beachy Head, Eastbourne, England Karl Marx Tomb, Highgate Cemetery, London, England Whitstable Bay, Kent, England CleanCar Berlin, Mitte, Germany Temple Gas Works, Glasgow, Scotland Fruitmarket City Hall, Glasgow, Scotland Port of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Carlsberg Brewery, Copenhagen, Denmark Unknown Music School, Naples, Italy Galleria Umberto,...
Nov 19, 2013•33 min
"I was invited to Berlin to record the filming process by the director, Cynthia Beatt, for ten days. I shot the sound as they filmed and every evening I made a new piece from the day's rushes. We went to many locations around the invisible wall and its remains. For about an hour I was allowed to wander unsupervised and recorded whatever I wanted. This recording is an edited version of the master."
Oct 19, 2013•27 min
L@TE: Friday Night at BAM/PFA July 26th, 2013 University of California Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive "Locating" Thingamajigs and Sasha Hom created 9 long vertical scrolls, at once musical score, artwork, poetry, and cartography that ascended the cavernous space, catalyzing the musical performances of three different improvising groups and transforming Gallery B into a collaborative map. Group Three: Kaori Suzuki - original hand built MEM analog synthesizer Marshall Trammell - per...
Sep 10, 2013•27 min
Protests are under way in dozens of American cities, a week after George Zimmerman was cleared of murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. This one was recorded in Hollywood.
Jul 19, 2013•2 min
Photograph: Peter Caldries The remote Snaefellsness Peninsula in Iceland is home to the tallest structure in Western Europe. A transmitter built originally in 1963 as a long-range, low-frequency (LORAN-C) navigation system and now used for longwave public radio purposes. During a recent sound recording trip to Iceland, i was fortunate enough to gain access to the transmitter facility and able to take a series of field recordings, using an array of contact microphones attached to the mast and sup...
Jul 08, 2013•17 min
Photograph: Peter Worth Equipment used: 4 x Reson 4042 Hydrophones, rigged for MS recording, post-processed using Max/MSP; Nagra VI recorder. Location: Placencia Bay, Belize. Date: 13th December 2012. Narrative: After a long day of finicky experimentation in the sun, I returned to the bay to wash salt water from the equipment and to hose down. From 1630'37"N, 8822'1"W I looked out on a tranquil evening scene and decided to attempt one last recording. I had recorded throughout the day in shallow ...
May 14, 2013•17 min
Recorded in Balham, south west London, from 0400 HRS 1st May 2013.
Apr 30, 2013•50 min
Unprocessed recordings of a 16 foot pipe organ - built 1861, standing in a 13/14th Century rural church in West Penwith, Cornwall), guitar feedback, unprocessed field recordings, ventilator and microtonal dubplates & turntables. Field recordings from contained and reverberant spaces in the cities of Berlin (2007), Tokyo (2006), Sydney (1999), Milan (2008), Hamburg (2009) and Osaka (2006). Live 8-channel diffusion at The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall as a response to the exhibition "An Urban S...
Apr 15, 2013•16 min
Equipment Used: Pearl MS-2 CL microphone outputting MS, matrixed in a Sound Devices SD302 mixer and recorded stereo to a Nagra BB+. Location: Camp Forktail Creek just outside the Corbett Tiger Reserve near Ramnagar, Uttaranchal, Northern India. Date: March/April 2009. [On a Wildeye trip to India with Chris Watson.] Narrative: After our evening meal of vegetable curry which followed a long, bumpy day in the Corbett Tiger Reserve (looking for... tigers of course!), we settled down to the sound of ...
Mar 27, 2013•23 min
Photo: David Cowlard Live at Silo 6, Auckland at the Audio Foundations Now! Here! Festival 12.08.12 A performance in one New Zealands most reverberant spaces, a complex of six disused cement silos on Aucklands waterfront. Harnessing their amazing acoustics, Stanier Black-Five made a series of initial field recordings within the silos, which were then re-introduced into the same space as the source material for this live performance. All the reverb is natural. No effects were used. Stanier Black-...
Mar 01, 2013•18 min
Photo: Jez Riley French bower floor | dawn chorus with rain | canyon wires music sits above and under the first impression. when duration allows these things come into focus, increasingly. in swifter moments a sense of quietude is possible. still, finding pace with listening as a lens, moving recorded september 2012, during time spent following a residency at The Wired Lab, this piece begins with two recordings playing at the same time. One of a bower floor, with contact microphones and geophone...
Jan 31, 2013•13 min
Photo: Zoe Drayton Recorded at the Now! Here! Festival to celebrate the launch of the book "Erewhon Calling: Experimental Sound in New Zealand". Mastered by Rachel Shearer. Thank you: Zoe Drayton, David Hornblow.
Jan 05, 2013•23 min
