Good selection of interesting sounds and soundscapes, skilfully edited. Enjoyed this auditory journey.

The Mistral, is a strong wind that commonly occurs in southern France, blowing down from the north along the lower Rhône River valley toward the Mediterranean Sea. As the wind reaches the Rhône delta, gusts can often hit speeds of 130 km (about 80 miles) per hour.

This recording was taken from the bedroom window of an old "Mas" (farmhouse) just outside Barbentane (Bouches-du-Rhône) with the mics pointing directly at a Plane tree (platane)at least 250 years old.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
24.08.2021

Strong "Mistral" Wind - Barbentane, France

A small flock of sixty Migrating Whooper Swans in the middle of night resting on Makholma Bay, Western Finland.  The tempo of the yoking will increase to the end. The nearby shore with forest is giving a nice echo. 

Video from the Bay:  http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/211114a/

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, 24/48, Flac)

Whooper Swans  - 14/11/2021 - Makholma Bay

Spring arrives in our neighborhood 25/2/2022.

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(MKH8020 ab80cm, 24/48, no processing, no mix, flac)

Deus ex machina - 25/2/2022 - Makholma Woods

Good headphones recommended: binaural recording.

Recorded at around 06:20 (ACDT) near Long Point, Coorong National Park. Singing Honeyeaters (Gavicalis virescens) are one of the first species to call before dawn, often in duet. (The vehicle heard in the distance to the right is the fisherman who can be heard in the following recording.)

No processing. 96/24 wav to 48/24 flac. (The constant low frequency background sound is the signature sound of the Coorong: the sound of the open ocean as filtered by a 130 kilometre (81 mile) barrier of high and wide sand dunes enclosing a saltwater lagoon of equal length. The Coorong lifeworld exists within this incessant enwombing sound. Cf. https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220303-sound-of-the-coorong-before-dawn-long-point-summer, and https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20200413-the-sound-of-the-coorong-kurangk.)

Recorded on land of the Ngarrindjeri people that is now a national park.

2022.03.03 Singing Honeyeaters. Dawn. Coorong. Late Summer.

Howling packs of wolves, Austowska Forest Poland
In the background beak clapping of Capercaillie

Wolws Augustowska JAREK - MATUSIAK

This unedited and unprocessed recording (from an unattended overnight recording) runs from 05:16 to 06:56. It was recorded at a location about 315 metres from the shore of the Coorong lagoon, at the nearest point, and about 3.5 kilometres from the ocean shore, at the nearest point, on the far side of the dunes that enclose the lagoon, from which the eternal environing ‘Coorong roar’ emanates.

The recording provides a companion piece for ‘2022.03.03 White Ibises Roosting. Night. Coorong. Inland. Late Summer.’ (https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220303-white-ibises-roosting-night-coorong-inland-late-summer)

96/32 wav to 48/24 flac.

2022.03.03 A Coorong Dawn. Inland. Late Summer.

Hippos and an obnoxiously loud cicada call at dusk in the savanna. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom mikroUsi microphones. Listen to more recordings from the African savanna at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGyXE47HzQ&list=PLCRlYmmK1sqpnPimVGFNUhmt1WtYhnsZc

Loud Cicada At South Luangwa

Using the Thunderbird to sculpt the bandwidths. Video of this patch here: https://youtu.be/m1frJJ0VkHk

Spectral Thunderbird

In 2020 I recorded 22 live improvisation sessions for my radio show called "Little Pink Fluffy Clouds". I have now started to release the works. In this first album I have assembled a selection of the vocal only improvisations where my voice was looped, layered, sampled and run through some guitar pedals and effects.
from the album Little Pink Fluffy Clouds B
released September 30, 2022
Mixed/Produced by Karen Vogt
Mastered by Mark Beazley/Trace Recordings
Artwork by Caro Mikalef (Cabina)
Physical and digital items can be purchased from my Bandcamp: https://karenvogt.bandcamp.com/album/little-pink-fluffy-clouds-b

cloud nineteen

‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

Sounds overheard on the streets of Tbilisi.

There is a song that turns a chair into a throne, that converts a wooden board into a banquet table, that turns a heart of cold indifference and self-concern into a warm embrace. Needless to say, it is difficult to learn the song, it can take even the best and most diligent student years to grasp. And because it possesses such force, it can’t be contained in the body, so after singing it just once, the singer has to retire the song, and never sing it again.

Music Lessons

Alëna Korolëva

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