Recorded with JrF contact microphone plugged into a Zoom H2n on the 28th of October at Kew Gardens in London.

Opened on International Biodiversity Day 2008, the Treetop Walkway was designed by Marks Barfield Architects. The 18-metre high, 200-metre walkway enables visitors to walk around the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees. Supported by rusted steel columns that blend in with the natural environment, it provides opportunities for inspecting birds, insects, lichen and fungi at close quarters, as well as seeing blossom emerging and seed pods bursting open in spring.

Metal support at the top of the treetop walkway of Kew Gardens

Recorded on the 18th of November 2016 at the end of 56 gates wall in Dedham Vale in England.
Recording material included a JrF hydrophone and JrF contact microphone plugged into a Zoom H2n.

56 gates and its stream

Recorded on the 1st of January 2017 with a JrF contact microphone plugged into a Zoom H2n.

My heartbeat

An excerpt from track 04 (Ease) of Passage, the journey in sound of my travels in Spain and Portugal in 2016. 

Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/

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In early March 2016, I found myself in a deserted train station in Spain. At my feet lay my bike, wrapped in industrial size bin bags. Next to it, my four panniers rested in a line ready to be mounted on the racks. And I stood in front of them, the reality of my journey slowly sinking in. Eventually I hooked the panniers to their rightful place. I got on the bike and off I went. Passage is the story of my journey in sound. 

Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/

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Cover art by @lizzy_piou

Passage

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Passage - Track 04 - Ease - Excerpt

An excerpt from track 05 (Adrift) of Passage, the journey in sound of my travels in Spain and Portugal in 2016. 

Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/

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In early March 2016, I found myself in a deserted train station in Spain. At my feet lay my bike, wrapped in industrial size bin bags. Next to it, my four panniers rested in a line ready to be mounted on the racks. And I stood in front of them, the reality of my journey slowly sinking in. Eventually I hooked the panniers to their rightful place. I got on the bike and off I went. Passage is the story of my journey in sound. 

Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/

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Cover art by @lizzy_piou

Passage - Track 05 - Adrift - Excerpt

Passage - Track 06 - Quietude - Excerpt

Words recorded for this video: https://youtu.be/9HrJwJXD89g
Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/
Listen to track extracts here https://soundcloud.com/allysseriordan/sets/passage-excerpt

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In early March 2016, I found myself in a deserted train station in Spain. At my feet lay my bike, wrapped in industrial size bin bags. Next to it, my four panniers rested in a line ready to be mounted on the racks. And I stood in front of them, the reality of my journey slowly sinking in. Eventually I hooked the panniers to their rightful place. I got on the bike and off I went. Passage is the story of my journey in sound. 

Get the album here http://www.allysseriordan.info/store/

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Cover art by @lizzy_piou

Passage - The story in words

As per the instruction I've made a collage of sounds collected this past year. Each segment last five seconds with no breaks in between. To keep to the autobiographical nature of this project, I have selected tracks that are meaningful to me and represent a period of the year. So better sound has often been disregarded.

00.00 to 00.05 January: My heartbeat (best listened to with headphones on. Contact microphone). Full recording https://soundcloud.com/allysseriordan/170101-a-sound-a-day-heartbeat
00.05 to 00.10 February: Coppicing in Stockwood Nature Reserve. Full recording (and more) https://besteglatisant.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/coppicing-at-stockwood-open-space/
00.10 to 00.15 March: A broken interphone in Manchester. Full recording https://soundcloud.com/allysseriordan/a-broken-interphone
00.15 to 00.20 April: A picnic with songs. 
00.20 to 00.25 May: Nothing was recording that month.
00.25 to 00.30 June: Rain on a yurt. Full recording https://youtu.be/5xs6j_tkmDw
00.30 to 00.35 July: Skateboarders in the city. Recorded as part of my first album http://www.bivouacrecording.com/shop/60-minute-cities-bristol-allysse-riordan
00.35 to 00.40 August: A hot air ballon being inflated.
00.40 to 00.45 September: Irish rain in a barn. Full recording https://youtu.be/7D0PJ1_3CiU
00.45 to 00.50 October: Singing at the HearSay Festival in Kilfinane. 
00.50 to 00.55 November: An excerpt of track 04 (Ease) of my second album. Full track https://humanhoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passage
00.55 to 01.00 December: An experimentation in music. Full track https://www.instagram.com/p/BcpAlb1lftv/

More on this 313th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Audio Journal 2017: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen five-second segments) at: https://disquiet.com/0313/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here: http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0313-audio-journal-2017/

There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

2017 audio journal (disquiet0313)

I'm late as the the timeline of the junto doesn't suit my timetable. So I'm likely to always be late this year.

For this piece, I recorded a couple of ice cubes being dropped in a glass and submerged them with water. I used an Uši microphone, a JrF hydrophone and contact microphone.
I roughly synchronized them and listened a few times to the track.

I then used a Roli Blocks. I turned off the field recordings and let myself be driven by the memory of the crackling sounds of the submerged ice cubes to create the melody.


More on this 314th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Cold Start: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something of it) at:
https://disquiet.com/0314/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0314-cold-start/

Ice cubes (disquiet 0314)

Track created for the Sound Photography project of Cities and Memory https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-photography/
Image by Mala Foar https://mala-foar.weebly.com/

Find out more about my process with the composition http://www.allysseriordan.info/2018/08/01/sound-photography-morning-dream/

Field recording credits:
Field recordings from Freesounds.org:
Magpie: wings flapping by digifishmusic https://freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/54190/
Agnus dei ver 2.0 cathedral by klankbeeld https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/412399/
Bird flying away by flashdeejay https://freesound.org/people/flashdeejay/sounds/241032/
Bus arrive suburban street get on doors close pull away by mzui https://freesound.org/people/mzui/sounds/135056/

Morning dream

This piece was created for the issue 04 of Queer Out Here. Find more information about it here https://www.queerouthere.com/

In this piece, the listener follows me as I go diving for the first time with some friends. It journeys from being terrified of the idea of going underwater to braving my fears and diving under the surface. 

The event is recounted in words and a variety of sound recordings that aim to recreate my feelings and experiences of the day. The piece aims to create an atmosphere and transport the listener with me. As such, and due to the nature of the sounds used, it is best listened to through headphones.

Acknowledgements: This piece uses the following recordings sourced via freesound.org (all links can be found on my website www.allysseriordan.info or at www.queerouthere.com): pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 1 / pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 2 / pushtobreak - Earth, Wind, Fire Pack - Water 4 / 170134 - Heartbeat / Timgormly - Outdoor Suburb Summer / Richwise - Summer City Birdsong / ScreamStudio - Moving Low Frequencies / CUeckermann - Someone Putting On A Blazer / ckr365 - Short Car Trip / Dobroide - Breathing / Robinhood76 - 01019 Car Door 3 / Julien Nicolas - Seaside Wave EQ / tim.khan - Seaside Cove Waves / vuralyavas - Seaside 2 / Arnaud Coutancier - Waves On Seaside Rocks 1 / YoloSwaggins - Underwater Ambiance / Tyops - Diving Smooth Drowning / Martysonic - Strange Diving / felix.blume - Water Splash / HDVideoGuide - Scubadiving 01 / digifishmusic - Scuba 1 / carmsie - Underwater Sounds Loopable

I am still breathing (headphones highly recommended)

This piece was created for the issue 03 of Queer Out Here. Find more information about it here www.queerouthere.com/

I set out to record a piece about my love of cycling but while I was doing so, this field recording happened and I fell in love with it. I was standing on a quiet Somerset lane next to my bike. As normal there was some shooting going on (clay I assume) and a lot of birds. I was enjoying the relative quiet when a small airplane came in, followed by cyclists, cars, horse riders, a bigger airplane, and finally the shooting and birds again. I felt I had captured a slice of a typical beautiful Spring Sunday in the lanes of Somerset when everybody is out enjoying the sun. All I was missing were joggers and ramblers but then, they were probably in the fields rather than the road.

The British countryside

I am a field recordist, sound artist, photographer, writer, and microadventurer. Not necessarily in that order.

allysseriordan

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