A pair of Aquarian Audio H2a hydrophones spaced off a boom pole submerged around 1m. 
Unprocessed recording.
Boat motors, distant tinkles of washing foreshore debris, a creaking pontoon jetty and perhaps even the sound of trains below the river.

This recording formed part of my final interactive sound piece for my RIVERSSSOUNDS Residency May 2021.

http://actionpyramid.com/Riversssounds-Residency-2021-River-Lea-Final-Work

Hydrophone stereo pair - Trinity Buoy Wharf - The Lea meets the Thames, 14th May 2021

A Reading of Blue Topography a book of  Words and sounds on Blue , body and landscapes by Lindsay Duncanson Including field sounds taken during printing and tracks from accompanying album 'Animal Wife' plus remixes and re-imagings from Cath Tyler, Mariam Rezaei and Jayne Dent ( MelostMe) 

Originally Streamed on  Star and Shadow Radio .
To buy the original book format head to https://linktr.ee/pinnel 

 Funded  by Arts Council England

Blue Topography

The first in a series of mixtapes presenting the most interesting and the freshest sounds from the Eastern European experimental music scene. From the premiere of ambient queen Martyna Basta, through the epic journey and transformation of AWOO, right up to the legendary vocal equilibristics of Ukrainian artist Ihor Tsymbrovsky.

The first in a series of mixtapes presenting the most interesting and the freshest sounds from the Eastern European experimental music scene. From the premiere of ambient queen Martyna Basta, through the epic journey and transformation of AWOO, right up to the legendary vocal equilibristics of Ukrainian artist Ihor Tsymbrovsky.

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14/06/2023 Recorded in Primorska, Slovenia. Substrate-borne vibrations in a hay-meadow habitat. Different signals of the vibrational community in the area.

Obalni Travnik / Coastal meadow

The first form of communication was not language but vibration. Listen to an audio essay featuring the biologist Juan José López and sound artist Ludwig Berger who sonify species that soon threatens to become completely extinct - if we don't listen. 

This audio essay podcast was created by the musician, writer, and Norient editor Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist @k-lone in autumn 2023 at Klang Moor Schopfe 2023. It is part of the Online Special «Sonic Natureculture»: each piece features conversations with (and sometimes sounds by) the artists and their installations, occasionally merging with Rhensius’ own compositions and poetry.

https://norient.com/sonic-natureculture

A Huge Reservoir of Life ‒ Audio Essay on Insects

Complete recording of a live session at The Rum Shack in May '23: myself, Shaun & Charlie running Digi, Steppers, 80s Dancehall & Dubwise wax all night, with plenty FX & siren.

Mother / Charlie McCann / Shaun Galbraith - Live @ The Rum Shack 27.05.23

Continuous recording of the vibroscape of a grass blade in Ljubljana's bog. Substrate-borne vibrations recorded with laser doppler vibrometer. Frequencies below 50 Hz (wind noise) and above 2500 Hz have been cut as no biological signals were found in that range. Most of the vibrations we hear are emitted by mainly three local insects:
-Aphrodes makarovi
-Aphrodes bicincta (var. "Dragonja")
-Anoscopus serratulae

Recorded on 12.07.2022, at 11:40 am

Vibroscape of a grass blade

"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.

These insect substrate-borne vibrations were recorded with laser doppler vibrometers from local plants in a wet meadow located in Gais, Switzerland. Laser vibrometers are able to detect the vibrational signals emitted by insects that travel through the surface of the plants in the meadow. Only two local insects could be identified by the signals they produced, and those were Aphropora major (a froghopper) and Sorhoanus assimilis (a leafhopper). Over 20 different insect signals were documented during the field study. Although their identity can not be revealed yet, we hypothesise that many of these signals belong to the Auchenorryncha suborder of insects, specialised in vibrational communication. The signals, emanating from the vibrational interactions within the local vibroscape, were extracted from 150 hours of recorded material collected over the course of August 8, 9, and 10, 2023. The research of vibroscapes in nature is rather recent and this was the first time that an alpine meadow was recorded.

In collaboration with @tremoneta (Juan José López Díez, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)

All recordings made on site by Juan José López Díez 
Editing and composition by Ludwig Berger
Installation by Ludwig Berger and Juan José López Díez
Photo by Juan José López Díez
Realized at the Festival KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE, Gais, Switzerland 2023

Ludwig Berger & Juan José López Díez - Vibroscape Of Hochmoor Gais (Excerpt)

The last days of February were colder and a solid ice of about three inches formed partially one mile out to sea. The Whooper Swans had arrived past week but what I think could be Bean Goose appeared for the first time. At 9 min a fox is crying. 

The sea water was rising due to an arriving low front. This and because the ice was new and solid, causes the crackling sounds. I was lucky to experience this, as it is absolutely not a common phenomenon, at least not here by the sea shore.  The picture with a big Venus and new moon was taken during the recording.

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/200228/

(AT4022 ab50cm, MixPre3, 24/48, flac)

Hydrophone stereo pair - Trinity Buoy Wharf - The Lea meets the Thames, 14th May 2021

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