The bubbling sound is produced by one of the oropendola species, probably Montezuma o. There are even more wonderful oropendolas in South America.

The squeeky background comes from squirrel monkies I guess

what a magic take ! you had to be so glad at that moment ! :)

the caiman jumps into the water (hope he wont eat us...)

one can hear the spider monkey calling and jumping through the canopee on the right hand, while the howler monkey grunts on the left side of the river

Field Recordings von Andreas Bick

Berliner Ensemble and Ersan Mondtag commissioned four ouvertures for "wagner - der ring des nibelungen (a piece like fresh chopped eschenwood)" recomposed by Thomas Köck - with no audible Wagner involved. Premiere on june 3rd 2021. 

I wrote music for a stellar 12 piece ensemble of classical musicians and improvisers. 

The compositions decontextualize tiny bits of the original Wagner ouvertures. A motive, a tempo, a piece of noise from an original recording... sometimes in the process I just played drums to the original ouvertures and used these drum recordings as a starting point for writing.

The pieces will be released as an album on backlash music on march 4th.

Moritz Ter-Nedden – violin
Grégoire Simon – violin 
Friedemann Slenczka – viola 
Ragnar Jonsson – violoncello 
James Banner - double bass
Laure Mourot - flute
Miguel Perez Inesta - clarinet 
Isaac Shaw – french horn 
Maria Schneider – vibraphone
Arne Braun – guitar 
Jörg Hochapfel - keyboard, piano 
Max Andrzejewski - composition, drumset

MYTHOS II - aüe

From my new one out next week! (July 29).

dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday

overlooking the gardens, rhythms blur - from Dawn, always new, often superb...

Diogo - Muler Layal

Magma

From the album "Stor, fet og fri" with LuckyLoop

Cirrus - LuckyLoop

this is one of my favourite field recordings, pure magic: I made this unedited recording on a canoe ride down the river cano negro in Costa Rica, passing through the mangroves with howler monkeys giving their calls that are reflected by the water surface. on the other side of the river spider monkeys climb through the trees and the Oropendola bird is singing his song. later a caiman jumps into the water. 

cano negro canoe ride

electronics and bells. 
from Song of Extinction (2016)

The Calf (from Song of Extinction)

I made this sound recording of a frozen lake in the winter of 2005/06 in the area around Berlin. Frozen lakes are known to give off most noise during major fluctuations in temperature: the ice expands or contracts, and the resulting tension in the ice causes cracks to appear. Due to the changes in temperature, the hours of morning and evening are usually the best times to hear these sounds. In my experience, thin ice is especially interesting for acoustic phenomena; it is more elastic and sounds are propagated better across the surface. Snowfall, on the other hand, has a muffling effect and the sound can only travel to a limited extent. The ice sheet acts as a huge membrane across which the cracking and popping sounds spread. Underwater microphones proved especially well-suited for these recordings: in a small hole drilled close beneath the surface of the water, the sounds emitted by the body of ice carry particularly well. The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths.

Dispersion in Ice Sheet

EA#activ2

performed by Crash Ensemble, and recorded for their album 'Crashlands'.

Vultures (for strings and percussion)

A collaboration sound project between composers and performers Frederik Croene (DSP and electronics) and Esther Venrooy (Piano and electronics). A very experimental and also an atmospheric album.

Truncate Retrograde

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

Composer, sound artist, field recordist. Soundtracks, radio play and podcast music, radioart.

cano negro canoe ride

Andreas Bick

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