Katie Watchorn, Balehome (ft. Cecil Watchorn)

Like the sound of an entering thunderstorm, the dumpers and dozers will come nearer from day to day. The Cormorants of small Järviluoto Island will not have too much time. No island is an island.

For project Chorus sinensis / www.theconferenceofthebirds.net  

(AT4022 ab60cm, MixPre3, no processing, Flac)

edit:  16.29 signals from a ship, possible Aurora Botnia

Birds and Bulldozers - 4/6/2021 - Jarviluoto Cormorants

Eglė Budvytytė, Soundtrack from the film "Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars".
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"The soundtrack is made up of a series of many-tongued songs produced by Budvytytė, where digitally processed voices bubble up and break apart – voices licking themselves, recomposing one another:

I am hatching I’m being hatched
I’m stretching time in your spine so long so
long so long so long
she will take care of you, she will fuck your
past
a crack in the rock, a crack in the narrative
how about decay, rotting, decomposing as
technologies for non-linear time
look into my shapeless eyes
come into my kingdom, moist-wet-slipperycomplex
suck up on my wisdom, muddy-airy-trippyperplexed."

Amelia Groom, Songs From the Compost: Notes on Symbiotic Relationality and Eglė Budvytytė’s Lichenous Poetics. In Forest as a Journal, 2021, 1(1), pp. 86-93.
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A fragment of the still from the film "Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars" by Eglė Budvytytė, art direction: Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Steponaitytė, images with overlay design by Goda Budvytytė.

Soundtrack from the film "Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars".

Eglė Budvytytė, Soundtrack from the film Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars

'Connemara Landscape (Wind Study)' (2022) uses the post-impressionist paintings of Belfast-born painter Paul Henry as a departure point, to create a ‘sonic landscape’. The artwork is an attempt to collaborate with the weather by focusing on the wind as its subject matter, drawing on anthropologist Tim Ingold’s idea of ‘correspondences’ (where humans respond with sensitivity, care and judgement to other beings, matter and elements). 

The work explores the idea of collaboration and correspondence with the wind by using a number of sound recording techniques that focus on ‘macro’ soundscapes, to ‘micro’ moments of resonance and musicality, created by objects and plants interacting with the wind. 

The work was created in March 2022, while on residency at Interface, Connemara, situated in the remote locale of the Inagh Valley. It was presented as a surround-sound installation, as part of the sound biennale Sonorities, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 6 – 10 April 2022.

'Connemara Landscape (Wind Study)' (2022) (Ambisonic Stereo Decode)

Tom Lawrence: The Water Beetles of Pollardstown Fen

Boat horns in the port of Piraeus on 6 january celebrations.

Epiphany (Theophania) - Boat Horns in Piraeus Port, Greece- January 2017

Welcome to this, the first ever episode of 'From What If to What Next'.  In this first episode, we meet singer, curator, event creator and lover of birdsong Sam Lee, speaking to us direct from a birdsong-filled forest, and Mya-Rose Craig, also known as 'Birdgirl', who is doing amazing work promoting birdwatching among young people and promoting BME engagement with the natural world. 

Subscribe to this podcast at www.patreon.com/fromwhatiftowhatnext and get it a full two weeks before everyone else, PLUS a subscribers-only podcast called 'The Ministry of Imagination', PLUS other treats such as my recent conversation with permaculture co-founder David Holmgren AND the opportunity to ask the What If questions that shape these episodes. All for just £3 a month.

From What If to What Next: Episode One.

Mexican Tree Frog (Smilisca baudini) and Túngara frog (Engystomops pustulosus)in Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Recorded with Telinga Parabola, Senheisser ME 62 and Roland R-26. Jul 26th 2018.
Rana de árbol (Smilisca baudini) y Rana Túngara (Engystomops pustulosus)en Metapán, Santa Ana, El Salvador. Grabado con Parabola Telinga, Senheisser ME 62  y Roland R-26. 26 jul 2018

Charca de ranas

Recorded the sound of the wind through the mast and the guy wires of a sunken and iced ship with a pair of diy contact mic's attached to it. The surface of the iced lake near the mast is recorded with another contact mic.

Sunk And Iced Ship

Felicity Mangan (AU) | HAUPTSPREE soundwalk | RIVERSSSOUNDS
February 2021 resident
Hauptspree river in Berlin (Germany)

RIVERSSSOUNDS is a platform for virtual sonic experiences and an online residency program.

RIVERSSSOUNDS is organized by DZESTRA (Chernivtsi, UA) in partnership with SEMI SILENT / Asociaţia Jumătatea plină (Bucharest, RO) and supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.
 
www.riversssounds.org
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www.instagram.com/riversssounds

Felicity Mangan (AU) | HAUPTSPREE soundwalk | RIVERSSSOUNDS | feb 2021

Alyssa Moxley (IE) | DORE soundwalk | RIVERSSSOUNDS
February 2021 resident
Dore river in Thiers (France)

RIVERSSSOUNDS is a platform for virtual sonic experiences and an online residency program.

RIVERSSSOUNDS is organized by DZESTRA (Chernivtsi, UA) in partnership with SEMI SILENT / Asociaţia Jumătatea plină (Bucharest, RO) and supported by the European Union under the House of Europe programme.

www.riversssounds.org
www.fb.com/riversssounds
www.instagram.com/riversssounds

Alyssa Moxley (IE) | DORE soundwalk | RIVERSSSOUNDS | feb 2021

Christopher Steenson is an artist based between Dublin, Belfast and Co. Kerry.

'Connemara Landscape (Wind Study)' (2022) (Ambisonic Stereo Decode)

Christopher Steenson

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