Sound Art/Field Recordings 2

The spaces between

MAP09
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/aeroplanes-puddles

“This recording is based on a particular geographic area of Sydney: the industrial zone around Sydenham Train station. As with many inner city industrial areas in large cities all over the western world, this place is ripe for redevelopment. However, in this case, due to the zone being directly underneath the flight path to Sydney airport, as well as being flood prone due to environmental factors, unscrupulous property developers are not able to completely gut the place and erect hideous apartments. What is interesting to me, and what this recording aims to capture, is that these factors – the aeroplanes and the puddles – act as a form of resistance to the development.” (MP Hopkins) 

MP Hopkins is a hidden treasure from Australia, a sound artist known for his varied music projects and strange mix of lo-fi urban field recordings and intimate bedroom experiments. Sonic details of empty streets from close neighbourhood, subtle intervention and fragments of lonely voice comments are reminding distinctive forms of sound journalism or a diary for night adventurers. Aeroplanes & Puddles follows the previous Traipse - Marrickville (2015) album which is Hopkins's starting point for his walks along the Sydney suburb. 

Mappa presents the sonic evidence of this opposition; the non-human voices of resistance that the aeroplanes and water speak with in this acoustic environment. The work features field recordings of the area garnished with a text narrated by Hopkins which combines fragments of the 2017 Australian Federal Budget speech and parts of ‘The Powerhouse’ – a radio play by Richard Packer (Gargoyle Poets series, 1972).”Feel free floating in the holy sound voyeurism and thorough collection of evidence from the other world at the same time. 

released February 7, 2018 

recorded, mixed and mastered by MP Hopkins 
artwork and design by Jakub Juhás, Richard Čecho 
photos by Nina Pacherová 
released by mappa as MAP09 in 2018

Aeroplanes & Puddles

part 1

part 2

Tokyo Phonographer Union at the Fernandes House, Yokohama, Japan
World Listening Day, July 18 2021
Live stream (archive): https://youtu.be/AdL5gNT6jYo

Part 1:
Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - percussion
Haruo Okada - Real time soundscape

Part 2: (in order of appearance)
 CarlStone, Haruo Okada, Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - phonography

Technical support: Hideki Giga Oikawa

Live at the Fernandes House, World Listening Day 2021

from the album suikinkutsu no katawara ni released by winds measure.

Lawrence English - Shinjuku Semi

FREE

Lawrence English - Semi Kyushu Japan

free download: https://abbyleetee.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-1

Camila Fuchs - Sparklin (Abby Lee Tee Remix)

From Caterina Barbieri's debut album Vertical (Important Records/Cassauna, October 2014) composed for Buchla Synthesizer and vocals.
Vertical is a meditation on primary waveforms and the polyrhythm of harmonics in synthetic sounds, stretching the boundaries between drone, minimalism and techno. Barbieri's minimalist focus arises from the exploration of the stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled sequencers, in terms of polyrhythm and polyphony. Employing synthesis, psychoacoustics and repetition as key concepts, the italian composer stylizes the dancing of wave cycles in severe geometries of time and space.
All the tracks were played, recorded and produced in Stockholm, at EMS (Electroacoustic Music Studios) and KMH (Royal University of Music) in Summer 2013.

Released by:
    Cassauna/Important Records
Release date:
    8 October 2014


Vertical has been reissued in February 2016:
importantrecords.com/imprec/sauna22
cassauna.bandcamp.com/album/vertical

www.importantrecords.com
www.caterinabarbieri.com

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Side A

Undular
Pneuma
Limen

Side B

Perspectiva
Traum_abc

Music composed and performed by Caterina Barbieri in Summer 2013
Recorded at EMS and KMH in Stockholm (SE)
Mixed in Bologna (IT)

Buchla Modular Synthesizer + vocals
Traum_abc vocals by Ellen Arkbro













Pneuma

Pinkcourtesyphone reaches out and touches someone… in this case an international call with Dutch harpist extraordinaire, Gwyneth Wentink. 

Wentink weaves her magic with an improvisation on the triple harp, a replica of a harp from around 1600 made of 3 rows of strings instead of the more common single row. The effect is a multi-timbral coalescence of mood, a conversation between layers. 

Pinkcourtesyphone thoughtfully folds, manipulates, and merges the gossamer resonances of the strolling fingers of Wentink under and over a hazy sonic shroud of worn romance and phobophobia. 

This spiralling composition is created for endless heavy rotation/ background consumption for an anxious and medicated society prone to ambivalence. 

Pinkcourtesymuse: M. Staudte 
Dedicated to P. Raben 

“what is this ‘me’?“ — M. Staudte 

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Electronic things: Richard Chartier 
Triple harp: Gwyneth Wentink 
Photo: Daan Noppen 
Layout: Fabio Perletta



Pinkcourtesyphone & Gwyneth Wentink — Elision (excerpt)

Fragments from "The Crossley Heritage" by the Sly & Unseen (Katie English and Jonathan Lees). Contrasting Victorian industrialism with a thirst for the natural surroundings. 

Available in a jackdaw edition in February, 1916.



Camila Fuchs - Sparklin (Abby Lee Tee Remix)

abby lee tee