The original LP disc Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Band & Sounds of Port-au-Prince (label Discrepant) presented a selection of 36 minutes from 15 hours of recordings of funerals, churches, wakes and Port au Prince ambiences. This new release 6 years later is a free addition to it, a new selection of recordings condensed into 43 minutes of brass bands, crying, masses, voices and field-recordings.

https://felixblume.bandcamp.com/album/death-in-haiti-bonus-disc

The release is offered for free, any possible earned money through BandCamp will get directly to the youngest musician of the bands, living in Port au Prince in difficult conditions.

Death in Haiti - Bonus Disc

Bonus Disc : Maestro Walter's Brass Band - SI JE PARLAIS

Bonus Disc : Maestro Walter's Brass Band - TRAVÈSE DEZÈ A

Ah ces poly-sons ! Ils sont complètement tirés par les plumes en saison sèche … car, quand l’appel du parapluie fait un sens averse, c'est une pluie d’oiseaux qui vient fredonner la polyphonie d’Azillanet.

"Goutte que Goutte" est une pièce sonore réalisée par la fusion de 4 gouttes de Belgique avec 5 gouttes de France. C'est une composition de sons glanés dans le village d'Azillanet et sa nature environnante, à différents moments d'une journée et d'une semaine, et aux hasards de rencontres avec les habitant.e.s, les oiseaux, les fluides, les végétaux et les lieux de vie. 
Elle témoigne autant de la diversité des sensibilités de ses créateurs et créatrices, que de la singularité de leur écoute poétique du monde. Ecouter le monde, c'est se relier à lui et en prendre soin, même en temps de pluies, alors coûte que coûte, les micros ont été sortis et les oreilles se sont ouvertes.

Les 4 gouttes de Belgique : Virgile Loiseau, Zoé Maus, Katherina Lindekens et Anne Versailles.
Les 5 gouttes de France : Marie Spiller, Nils Loret, Floriane Pochon, Anne Girard Esposito et Juliette Mariel.
L'espace temps de leur fusion : le merveilleux stage de field-recording organisé par Félix Blume, du 30 avril au 5 mai 2024. 
Merci à Georges, Nico, Stéphane, Anne, Mireille, Patrick, Ana, tous les habitant.e.s d'Azillanet, le rossignol, le Couvent, le Foyer Rural, la cloche, la mare aux crapauds, et bien sûr la pluie !

Goutte que Goutte

Excerpts from the exhibition Canaveral Soundscape produced by Dr. Nathan Wolek, the 2020 artist in residence.

"Most people have never heard the soundscape beneath the surface of Mosquito Lagoon. On many days, you can hear irregular pops of snapping shrimp using sound to stun their prey. Some days, you can hear creaking from dolphins using sound to locate their next meal. For a few weeks in fall, you will hear a slow tonal pulse from toadfish in search of a mate. It's a dramatically different soundscape than the one above the water. The soundscape above the water can be active and eventful, while underwater it is calm or vice versa. Occasionally, loud events like thunder will penetrate the surface, but usually they are almost indifferent to each other. 
The selections playing over the speakers in this gallery were recorded at various locations in the Mosquito Lagoon at Canaveral National Seashore. Although these recordings emphasize the underwater soundscape, occasionally they come up for air and reveal what is happening just above the surface. That often serves as a contrast, but sometimes it can reveal the source of something heard under water (such as a passing boat, an approaching storm, or a busy fisherman)."

floating dock & passing dolphin (Seminole Rest, 2 September)

ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore is a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore. It is the first artist residency of its kind in the United States dedicated to preservation of natural sound, following in the tradition of other types of successful U.S. National Park Service residence programs located in more than 100 parks throughout the country. It provides a creative platform for musicians, sound artists, composers, and soundscape ecologists can discover sustainable solutions and raise awareness of sound as a natural resource.

https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/home/soundscape-field-station/

floating dock & passing dolphin (Seminole Rest, 2 September)

ACA Soundscape Field Station at CANA

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