hidden paradise #3

This is a 5 minute preview of Yumi's full sound bath. To listen to it in full please visit our Bandcamp page: https://soundbathsessions.bandcamp.com/track/sound-bath-024-yumi

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Yumi gives regular gong baths around Hong Kong. Her humorous and welcoming character complements the emotional sound baths that she performs. Yumi has practiced Reiki for many years and spends her time between Hong Kong and Japan with her family.

This was recorded at Ore Art in Sheung Wan. It was the first solo gong bath I had recorded and it blew me away. I had no idea a single gong could have so much power. Her symphonic gong is very musical with each hit creating a new layer of sound upon the last resulting in an overwhelming wave of sound that fills your mind. I felt new ideas and inspirations emerge perhaps because deep down that was what I was seeking. I would anticipate our future recordings as a time of creation and release.

In the middle of the recording, I had heard a unique sound inbetween the layers. She revealed that she sang into the gong with her voice. It was amazing how it became one with the sounds of gong softening it, making it more human.

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Sound Bath 024- Yumi

Static spokenwords by Lesley Wood

'"TV Static Noise" c/o youtube user Sleep White Noise 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0I4mTEdAf8

"Ode to Joy" by Beethoven

Static
Listen.
Everything else is secondary
Everything else is static
Pay no attention to the rules and labels.
Reach for the core, pull out the heart 
There is green in the wasteland. 
Blue beyond gray. 
Slough off the mud covered. 
There are jewels in the mire. 
Ignore the distractions fantasies illusion.
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat. Its in everything.
Listen!
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static. 
Yes! 
White noise brings no joy.
Lost in the dark
All memories erased. 
Feel your way thru the fog. 
Hear the deep beat 
Your heart. 
Its in everything. 
Resonating. 
Listen! 
Everything else is secondary. 
Everything else is static.

©℗2015 by Lesley Wood
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Static

done using a Jupiter 8 and Boss effects unit.
Roland Is Boss

Thank You Mr. Kakehashi (Roland is Boss) Absolutely

May 13, 2017 / 16:51 / 42.361583, -71.056083 / A Dollar A Box! /农贸集市 / Haymarket is Boston’s historic outdoor market where you could find the biggest produce bargain / A box of fresh strawberries is as low as 99 cents / But what attracts me is its preservation of the face-to-face interaction between people that is largely missing in many chain grocery stores / Today, the market finds a diversity of the sellers and buyers / On a warm day, the air is filled with the aroma of fresh produce as well as the lively conversations of people / I stood at a narrow path between a vegetable stand and a cheese stand / The plastic covers for the tents were flapping in the wind / A young girl was trying to help bag the vegetables / A man shouts, “Dollar, dollar, dollar!” to attract customers / A man walked by and jokingly asked if I was holding a camera / Going to Haymarket reminds me of the time when buying produce depended entirely on visiting the local produce markets / Back then, buying things meant talking with people //

Haymarket是波士顿历史悠久的户外农贸市场 / 在物价不菲的市里，一盒草莓只要99美分 / 到这里买菜可以和商贩面对面的交流，和在超市里面对排放整齐的商品是完全不一样的感觉 / 卖菜和买菜的人很多来自不同的文化背景，他们的英文带着各种口音 / 我站在一个蔬菜摊子和一个奶酪摊子中间 / 大风把遮盖棚子的塑料布吹得哗哗作响 / 小贩们大声吆喝自己低廉的价格吸引顾客 / 一个男子喊道：“一元！一元！一元！” / 一位女摊主幼小的女儿帮她拿袋子装菜 /  一个中年男子看到我的录音机，停下来好奇的问：“这是相机吗？/ 不是相机的话那一定是一个香蕉吧！哈哈哈！“ 然后自己开心的走了 / 看着大家挑挑选选，让我想起小时候买菜必须得去这样的农贸市场挑选原料，跟商贩讨价还价 //

About the Artist:
Li Wang (https://soundcloud.com/genobunny) grew up in a coastal city in south China, where the industrialization dramatically shifted the natural landscape / In her childhood, she spent a lot of time taking adventures in the woods with her puppy / There she made friends with animals and plants / Later Li continued her adventure with nature at a molecular level / She explored the behavior of genes in a biology laboratory / Although Li enjoyed the process of solving complicated scientific problems, she discovered her desire to work with image and sound / When Li came to America, she carried her curiosity for biology into the process of media making, as a way to understand human minds and emotions / Soon after she began Emerson College’s Media Arts program in Boston, sonic elements became a critical part of her artistic explorations / She is intrigued by the soundscape that is shaped by the architecture, human activities and nature //

王励在中国北部湾的一个海港城市长大 /她曾经在大学和研究生院学习生物学 /但最终，她决定要用图像和声音来创造故事 /她随后来到美国学习电影和媒体 /在波士顿爱默生学院学习媒体艺术期间，对声音的探索成为了她艺术创作的重心 /平时在影视录音和后期混音之余，她常常用手持录音机录下有趣的声音 //

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Pre-order now available via Imprec.com 

No Date Tapes is the first official cassette release from Harry Bertoia's tape archive and it contains two of the longest recordings yet discovered, each over 30 minutes. This cassette is packaged in a gold shell and produced on super-ferro tape for incredible analog sound. First printing of 100 copies.

Both sessions on this cassette are sourced from a collection of Bertoia tapes that were found without dates. While it's unknown when these pieces were recorded, the artist's notes are included on the packaging so it's clear how he felt about these recordings. These pieces were selected, in part, because of the contrasting opinions Bertoia had for each session.

Side A was considered by the artist to be a "good performance" which was "rich in variety" and had "good structure and fine tonality." This particular tape has aged quite well and provides clear audio insights into the sonic territory that Bertoia pioneered. 

Side B provides a fascinating sonic contrast to side A. The artist's notes suggest that he was pleased with some tonalities but the composition was "not properly developed" and contained, in Bertoia's words, "too much music." 

It's our hope that by releasing pieces like this, paired with the artist's own notes, an attentive listener can gain insight into the processes that determined the outcome of the artist's work. What does Bertoia mean by "too much music?" What is the tonality being pursued? What type of compositional structure did he find to be appealing? 

These are some of the questions we're attempting to answer as we digitize and release the pioneering sonic sculpture of Harry Bertoia.

Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

No Date Tapes

Harry Bertoia - No Date Tapes - Cassette C60 - Pre-Order

Bivouac Recording is a sound label based in Hong Kong.
Bivouac Recording是一个录音品牌且提供录音服务的公司，致力于推进独立现场录音项目。

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