Name: BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts - An Acoustic Acclamation To Things Tiny by Action Pyramid
Duration: 2 min 11 s
Description: Commissioned for BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts episode 'Miniatures’. On theme with the episode the piece features some of the tiniest sounds I’ve ever recorded. These include limpets eating, hoverflies making some incredible synth-like drones while resting on my microphones, a conversation between some ants and hydrophone recordings of aquatic plant photosynthesis.

The Phase Group Mix continues:

 «Self-» a story by Prince of Gosplan

This story is an attempt to live through the personal experiences and events that have accompanied me for the past year and a half. Inside, I collected the sacred music that I listened to in moments of greatest sorrow and greatest joy! These are healing songs with which I feel a personal connection and which I associate with a sense of home and inner safety.

www.youtube.com/@PrinceofGosplan

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Prince of Gosplan

"Škvar" is a sound installation composed by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon, as a part of the site-specific installation "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" created and realized by the visual artist Matea Šabić Sabljić aka @_argo_nauta_

The installation will be presented on the 6th and 7th of December, next to the Antifascist memorial by architect Bernardo Bernardi which was built at the exact place of an old shipyard.

Sound work is an extension of an art action: "Taking the tool in your hands is an act of honesty", which took place in September and engaged wider community. The participatory action involved people bringing hammers and nailing the names of old Korčula's shipbuilders into the planks of abandoned boats. Doing so produced the noise — sound of an old shipyard that was gone decades ago.

This public action became a silver lining of the sound work "Škvar".

Matea continued to collect hammers in Korčula, Dubrovnik, Split, Betina and Zagreb. Collected hammers will be installed as a site-specific installation accompanied by the sound work. Collecting hammers is continuing as a work in progress for the sake of "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" hoping to initiate a Museum which will protect both history and the future of local shipbuilding.

Exhibition is curated by Sonja Leboš ( @uiii.aiir ) and co-organised by @kap_korcula

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Zaziv muzeju i korčulanskoj brodogradnji

Korčulanski škveri i majstorske radionice svjedoče slavnu korčulansku brodograditeljsku prošlost. Glas o kvaliteti njihovog rada je bio nadaleko poznat. Korčulanske obitelji brodograditelja sagradile su na tisuće brodova. 
Međutim, rad, znanje i vještina koji su bili dio svakodnevice otoka kroz stoljeća, pa sve do kraja prošlog tisućljeća, izgubili su se. Nestale su radionice, pa škverovi. Pa i majstori.
Zazivamo sve te davne meštre i meštrice,
Zazivamo sve buduće meštre i meštrice,
Da uzmu alat u ruke i krenu graditi!
Želimo “uškvariti” značaj korčulanskih škvarova. Kolektivna memorija izgradnje tisuća brodova je zapisana u rukama. Treba se prisjetiti. Zakucati brokvu po brokvu. Dasku po dasku. Brod po brod.
Značaj korčulanske brodogradnje uokviriti, “uškvariti” muzejom, oko kojeg će se stvarati novi brodovi i novi meštri.
Meštar po meštar.
Meštrica po meštrica.

Škvar by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon

Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

The first Phase Group Mix of 2024 comes courtesy of London-based DJ, Sallad Egg, who takes us on a journey from mystical synth worlds and fourth-world delicacies to post-punk musings and Turkish psych, and lots in-between.

Sally can be found DJing across London and beyond, and is never one to be missed.

Phase Group Mix - Sallad Egg

Weights & Measures (26/5/24)

Time to check in with a lynch-pin of Glasgow’s vibrant DIY scene as Dip Friso weaves through 50 minutes of twisted dub mutations, itchy beat experiments and skewered dancehall versions for our latest mix.

TP535 Dip Friso

Some of the sounds burrowing crabs make when inside their burrow. Recorded using Lom Geophones on Bang Ben beach, Laemson National Park, on the west coast of southern Thailand.

Crab sounds.

L'intérieur sauvage w/ Elazer (30/8/25)

Dawn at Marsh by Lake Jõemõisa, Jõgeva County, Estonia.
 29th April 2016

Bitterns ( Botaurus stellaris) with Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus), Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris), Savi’s Warbler (Locustella luscinioides), Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana)... and others. 

Recorded with a pair of Rode NT1A’s arranged ORTF into a SD702

Many thanks to Veljo Runnel for assistance with recording locations in Estonia. 


Bitterns Booming

Sacha Mambo « Rap Français 1995-2000 » Volume 1
Tracklist :
1. Ghetto Prodige « Le language de la rue » (Globale Vibes Records) 1997
2. Tout Simplement Noir « La solidarité noire » (Edit) (Panam’ Production) 1997
3. Double Pact « Tout ce qu’on pense de toi » (Night & Day) 1995
4. Rohff « Sensation Brave » (Hostile Records) 2000
5. Explicit Lyric « Une balle perdue » (Nautilus Production) 1996
6. N.A.P. « La racaille sort un disque » (Night & Day) 1996
7. Kertra « Le prix d’une vie » feat. Daddy Lord C (La Kiss Productions) 2000
8. Intouchable « J’observe » (Flavor Records) 2000
9. Lunatic « Le silence n’est pas un oubli » (45 Scientific) 2000
10. X-Men « 50/50 » (Universal) 1998
11. Koma « Et si chacun » (Reel Up) 1999
12. Idsa « Vie sans issue » feat. Mounah (Edit) (Menace Records) 2000
13. 113 « Parti en fumée » (Edit) (Invasion Records) 1998
14. 113 « Le quartier est agité (Remix) » (Invasion Records) 1998
15. Ideal J « Uniquement pour les miens » (Night & Day) 1996
16. S.Kiv « L’argent roi$ » feat. Oxmo Puccino (Vicelards Records) 1997
17. Düne « J’sais plus ou j’en suis » (Armada Records) 1998
18. Puzzle « J’ai jamais trahi » (Logilo Productions) 1999
19. Expression Direkt « Apocalypse now (freestyle) » feat. Delta, Tepa, Hertra, Papy Fredo, Storka & Abuz (Night & Day) 1996

Rap Français (1995-2002) Volume 1

Commissioned for BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts episode 'Miniatures’. On theme with the episode the piece features some of the tiniest sounds I’ve ever recorded. These include limpets eating, hoverflies making some incredible synth-like drones while resting on my microphones, a conversation between some ants and hydrophone recordings of aquatic plant photosynthesis.

BBC Radio 4 Short Cuts - An Acoustic Acclamation To Things Tiny

Action Pyramid

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