Windy Weather Always Makes Me Think Of You

Out Of Tune

A Man With A Bagpipe

this is just a quick test of some software for a small, wintery project i'm going to try tomorrow. just to test signals and make sure everything is working. sound here is coming from a NonLinear Labs C15 synth.

January 27, 2022 (a very small test)

In springtime I usually go to foreign destinations to record, but in 2020 and 2021 because of the restrictions due to Covid I stayed in my home country and recorded in locations a short motorbike ride away from where I live near Arklow County Wicklow (East coast of Ireland). It was probably feasible to travel but it seemed like a lot of hoops to jump through. Early in the season I tried the gravel pit and a sand dune area, both only a few kilometres away, these places are great for a walk but not so good for recording, so that left only Ballinvally woods and Rosahane graveyard. Ballinvally woods is only a pine plantation with some semi-natural areas around the edges, the area has one great advantage in that it is surrounded by low hills, somewhat further away to the east, not so many kilometres, is the M-11 motorway so I had to be careful not to go out recording if there is an easterly drift of air. This woods is down a small country road. Just opposite is another woods, nearly completely pine plantation called Sporting Lodge woods. At the lower entrance is a farmhouse, I have never seen any activity in or around it, in the garden are a few House Sparrows (Disc 3 track 9), these birds are hard to find in quiet places, the downside with houses is that they are usually noisy or there is a noisy dog outside eager to bark at you all morning at your least movement, then houses usually have other noisy aspects about them, motors and so on, so to get Sparrows with a clean background is difficult. The other place I found to record sparrows is Moorshill (Disc 3 track 8), but although there are no people or dog noises there was a Cow mooing loudly.
The other location I recorded in is called Rosahane Graveyard (Disc 2 track 5 & Disc 3 track 1), this is in the Wicklow hills and could be described as being in the middle of no-where. I don’t know why it was chosen to be a graveyard as there is no town or even a village nearby, it is not even off a big road, there is no church unless there used to be one on the site a long time ago. It is not very old and to judge by the gravestones it probably goes back to the eighteenth century. It is surrounded by some really big and well grown pines that are a different species to the plantation outside.
Equipment; A Sound Devices MixPre 3 and a Marantz PMD661 recorder. About half way through the season the Marantz became faulty so I replaced it with a Tascam Dr100-Mk3. Microphones, Mainly the Sennheiser MKH8020’s, then for the drop-rig I used the Rode NT4 and later in the season a pair of Rode NT2A’s. The first recording (The Sea) was made with the Rode full length gun-mic, the NTG-8. I mentioned a drop-rig, usually when I would arrive at the woods to record, while still nearly dark, I would set up the Marantz or Tascam with either a Rode NT4 or the Rode NT2A’s and leave it to record for two or maybe three hours while I went away to another part of the woods with the MixPre3 and 8020’s (on the end of 30 metres of cable) to get more recordings. Usually I got a lot of great material with the unattended recorder, usually the levels were right or nearly right, it was a pleasure to have that aspect of the mornings work a mystery till I got home and opened it on the computer.
I like evening choruses, they are very distinctly melancholy compared with the dawn or morning chorus, from a recording point of view they are harder to record as people are not in bed asleep as in the early morning.
Some figures . . . I made 259 recordings, that is about 67 hours of material, a full 54 Cds. Even in Peru I didn’t get this many recordings ! I had thought about making this a two disc production, but I found I would had to have left out some great material, so that is why I went for the third disc.
I hope you enjoy these recordings as much as I enjoyed making them.

New Album - Birdsong Recording Season '21 - Disc 1

another field recording... on the way to the studio this morning, hearing melting snow fall from a stone into a bed of melting ice. these were small drops but rang out.

February 17, 2022 (from stone to ice)

This unedited and unprocessed recording (from an unattended overnight recording) runs from 05:16 to 06:56. It was recorded at a location about 315 metres from the shore of the Coorong lagoon, at the nearest point, and about 3.5 kilometres from the ocean shore, at the nearest point, on the far side of the dunes that enclose the lagoon, from which the eternal environing ‘Coorong roar’ emanates.

The recording provides a companion piece for ‘2022.03.03 White Ibises Roosting. Night. Coorong. Inland. Late Summer.’ (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220303-white-ibises-roosting-night-coorong-inland-late-summer)

96/32 wav to 48/24 flac.

2022.03.03 A Coorong Dawn. Inland. Late Summer.

This mixtape features experimental ambient tracks released on the American label Chitra Records in 2021-2022 @chitra-records

1. Alessandro Barbanera - These Seeds in Your Pockets, One Day They Will Grow (Pacification)
2. Dionisaf - Long Way to the Ganga (From the Silence)
3. Toni Dimitrov - The Road to Revolution (Noises of Nature)
4. Macrogramma - Mawaru (Pacification)
5. BinJa - Temporary and Eternal (Atmareka)
6. NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] - Will I See Odessa as Beautiful as Before (Pacification) 
7. Toni Dimitrov - The Story of Utopias / Radio Edit (The Story of Utopias)
8. Lelya - Arriving Home (Pacification)
9. Dionisaf - Museum of Voices (From the Silence)
10. Boban Ristevski - L'erotisme / by Georges Bataille (Noises of Nature)

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com

Immersive love - Guest Mix 005 (Chitra Records)

しゃんしゃんしゃんしゃんとんたんとんとん

A meditative journey through death and the afterlife. “Ashes” drifts between silence and sound, existence and disappearance — ambient reflections on mortality, memory, and what lingers beyond.

Tobias Lorsbach, professionally known as Logic Moon, is an artist based in Mainz, Germany. His musical trajectory encompasses a broad spectrum, beginning with his role as a guitarist in a death metal band, followed by endeavors as a DJ, and ultimately establishing himself within the ambient music sphere. This diverse background informs the conceptual depth of his recent works, which seamlessly incorporate experimental and neoclassical elements.

Produced and mixed by Tobias Lorsbach (Logic Moon)
Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Cover picture by Tobias Lorsbach
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Ashes

Remember Me

ILFMAN+SONITUS MORTIS’s "Airways,” is an immersive, meditative journey through atmospheric soundscapes. Distant, resonant guitar layers combine with faint mechanical hisses and distorted samples, crafting a haunting wall of sound.
Low-frequency drones tuned to 432Hz infuse the track with a tranquil, almost transcendental vibe, as we are inviting our listeners to lose themselves in its slow-moving, hypnotic aura. Perfect for those seeking introspection, “Airways” blends ambient and industrial elements to create a powerful, otherworldly experience.

TOKYO RECORDS CORP / PAPA LEGBA RECORDINGS 2024

Composed and performed by Ilfman + Sonitus Mortis
Produced by Frank Ilfman

Mixed by Sonitus Mortis and Miko
Mastring by Uno

Ilfman:Guitars, Synths and sampled mechanical
Sonitus Mortis: Synth, reel to reel, AI sampled machine, speak & Spell

ILFMAN+SONITUS MORTIS - AIRWAYS

...and to be a ghost (remastered)

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

Out Of Tune

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