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

Welcome to the first ever sound tour of Canaveral National Seashore! Open your ears, close your eyes, and let it take you on a journey through the various habitats and moods of nature found at the seashore. While moving geographically from the ocean’s shore across the narrow barrier island to the lagoon, you will also be guided through the phases of the day, from the awakening of dawn, to the contemplation of dusk, and the lullaby of owls in the night. Notice as you’re listening that each place has it’s own distinct soundscape, or collective expression of voices and sounds.  - Jack Hines

With this activity we wear two hats: One, in the role of soundscape ecologists, where we study as scientists the recorded signals emanating from both marine and terrestrial habitats. With the field data we collect, we analyze and publish the results of our findings. Our publications, while important, are read by a relatively small number of colleagues who take into account the consequences of our efforts and consider them for further research. For us, this is not sufficient enough exposure to larger audiences who really need access to our findings so that they can make informed decisions about the future well-being of their respective biomes. To address that goal successfully, we must wear our artist hat.
Through the lens of the arts, we focus more on emotional impact to put our ideas and findings across. As soundscape artists, we show how the power of sound illustrates the incredible wonders occurring in the natural world. David Bowie once said that ‘the future belongs to those of us who can hear it coming,’  All of the proofs are there – just in a different voice not usually considered, before.
With science, we stick to abstract numbers and sometimes esoteric rationale to explain the outcomes of our work.
As artists, however, we can create events we most want to hear manifest in the natural world. What’s unusual about this material is that it reaches audiences of all ages, cultures, language groups, and interest without the usual biases. That’s because natural sound is embedded deeply in our DNA, a vestige of ancient times when we lived more closely connected to and engaged with the life-affirming forests and deserts from which we sprang. - Bernie Krause, PhD

Visit https://www.nps.gov/cana/getinvolved/air-creative-contributions.htm
for the full narrative of this unique recording.

00:00 Sandy Shore & Dune 
00:25 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
00:49 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
01:15 Saw Palmetto Flatland
01:21 Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
01:27 Grey Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
01:27 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
03:05 Salt Marsh 
04:05 Common Loon Gavia immer
04:18 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
04:35 Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
04:41 Airplane
05:10 Coastal Hammock
05:14 Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus
05:23 Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
05:33 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
05:44 Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
06:23 Power boat
06:35 Boat sound underwater
06:35 Mosquito Lagoon 
06:47 Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
07:59 Snapping Shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis
08:07 West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus
09:06 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
09:51 Visitor Center 
09:51 Flag pole and flag flapping
09:57 Bald Eagle, juvenile Haliaeetus leucocephalus
10:10 Thunder storm
11:04 Rain water in puddles
11:04 Doris Leeper’s porch 
11:23 Little Brown Cicada Cicadetta calliope
11:44 Mangrove shore 
11:48 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
12:06 Sandhill Crane Antigone canadensis
12:21 Osprey Pandion haliaetus
12:21 Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
12:36 Mullet Mugilidae
13:01 Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
13:15 Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans
13:22 Lagoon shore at night 
13:30 Little Grass Frog Pseudacris ocularis
14:30 Coastal Hammock 
14:32 Great-horned Owl Bubo virginianus
14:41 White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
15:53 Train in the distance

Soundscapes by Jack Hines & Dr. Bernie Krause

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/

Soundscapes by Jack Hines & Dr. Bernie Krause

ACA Soundscape Field Station at CANA

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