Name: Artists Emerging by Clare Hedin
Duration: 10 min 39 s
Description: What is it to be an artist in a society where non-artists rule? What do we bring to society? Where do we travel to, to get the craft we share? What are we doing when we 'art'?

What is it to be an artist in a society where non-artists rule? What do we bring to society? Where do we travel to, to get the craft we share? What are we doing when we 'art'?

Artists Emerging

This chapter explains how energy systems have begun to degrade and the impossibility of maintaining current trajectories of energy consumption. It is a reality which undermines the 'ecomodern' story of maintaining consumer lifestyles through new technologies. Instead richer societies need to 'power down' - voluntarily or otherwise. 

Full audio book:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Breaking-Together-Audiobook/B0C8PTD9ZL
(or search Breaking Together in audible/itunes/etc in your country)

To read more about the book:
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/

Good Works (GW) believes that critical thought and open debate are some of the most important contributions to ensuring we are able to create a fairer, balanced and harmonious world for all living creatures. The views expressed in this book are those of the author and do not represent the views of Good Works or The Schumacher Institute.

Breaking Together

Energy Collapse and Problems with Net Zero - Chpt 3 of Breaking Together

Dear Jose-Echoes of Eve (Gail Silverman, Deema Homsi, Sharon Roach)

Available with music videos on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/8Ga_NlCyOHg

"Angel's Whisper," the ethereal 10th album by Namasthay, invites you into a celestial odyssey that resonates with the subtle beauty of the unseen. Drawing inspiration from the divine, each instrumental creation is a feather on the wings of imagination, soaring through the heavens of sound.

This collection is a tapestry of otherworldly interludes and silences that speak volumes, echoing the old saying, "an angel is passing by." It's a journey through the spaces between notes, where the whispers of angels are heard, and the silence is as profound as the music itself.

In a special tribute, Namasthay conjures the spirit of "The Fifth Element," reimagining the cosmic opera that brought Leeloo to life. This track is a nod to the timeless narrative of the film, blending with the album's angelic theme.

With a name sharing resonance with Archangel Gabriel / Jibril, Namasthay infuses "Angel's Whisper" with a personal touch of creativity and mystical allure. This album stands as a testament to his evolving artistry, less a collection of tributes and more a manifestation of his own creative spirit.

As Namasthay releases his 10th album in under two months, one can't help but marvel at the prolific nature of his work, a stark contrast to the long-stretched discographies of legends like the Rolling Stones. It's a swift ascension to a musical zenith that promises to inspire and uplift.

Join Namasthay in this seraphic experience, and let "Angel's Whisper" resonate with the divinity within.

1. Sky March

https://semzeeman.bandcamp.com/track/noorderhoofd-5198021-n-411153-o

Once Doggerland, an historical connection between Britain and continental Europe. Now an industrial area were fossils are found and traded, surrounded by salty water we today call the North Sea.

Located on the Noorderhoofd pier along the busiest waterway in Europe, in Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands. The waterway is a ship canal called de Nieuwe Waterweg, which makes the Port of Rotterdam accessible for seagoing vessels from and to the North Sea. It’s the largest port in Europe and specialised in the petrochemical industries and cargo transshipment handlings. Across the water of Noorderhoofd are the Maasvlakte and Europoort, which are very heavily industrialised with also petrochemical industries, as well as coal- and biomass-fired power plants, styrene- and propylene-oxide production and transhipment of ore, coal and palm oil.

This industrial area is surrounded by beaches where crabs, shrimps and starfish can be found. By dunes with foxes, rabbits, lizards and moles. By the air with sandpipers, polecats, buzzards and seagulls. And by the water with seals, sea bass’ and garfishes.

The auditive beauty of these surroundings is abruptly disturbed by increasing buzzes, noise and suddenly appearing rhythmical radar frequencies presenting itself through electromagnetic signals. The infrasound from the petroleum industries across gets supported by a slowly growing even intenser engine rumbling. The waves crashing on the pier are rising, each one followed by a greater force.

An interference of low and high increasing frequencies, as a collaboration between human and nature, is resonating through a pole standing on the pier. Beholding the industrial infrasound and coastal acoustics, responding in the creation of abrasive metallic harmonics. This pole is holding a warning sign, to contain our behaviour on the pier.

“Dangerous waves from shipping. Enter at your own risk.”


Noorderhoofd [51,98021° N, 4,11153° O]
through the ears of its aquatic- and surrounded wildlife, adapted to the petrochemical industries and cargo shipping.



“Noorderhoofd [51,98021° N, 4,11153° O]” is also part of the long-form sound composition Upstream Ensemble, where mainly its infrasound recording is used. This composition is initiated by TBA21’s Ocean-Archive, ocean comm/uni/ty and Pablo Diserens, who invited 35 field recordists to venture in the world and record aqueous sonic encounters. Upstream Ensemble navigates between the multiplicity of the water cycle as a sounding body. The work moves upstream through oceans, rivers, pipe networks, ponds, and glaciers while investigating the continuous flow of water and the environments that surround it. Here, the world’s aqueous fauna, flora, geologies, and technologies mingle into a synchronized motion that documents the sonic articulations of these wet zones. Upstream Ensemble is released digitally on TBA21’s Ocean-Archive website and physically released on the label forms of minutiae as cassette. 

f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/upstream-ensemble

-LINKS-
www.instagram.com/semzeeman
www.youtube.com/@SemZeeman
https://semzeeman.bandcamp.com

-CREDITS-
Noorderhoofd [51,98021° N, 4,11153° O] by Sem Zeeman

All sounds are captured with a Zoom H5, LOM Geofòn, OrganicAudio Cjossul and Soma Ether at Noorderhoofd in Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands. 

The recordings are processed, mixed and mastered during post-production in Logic Pro X.

Released on February 28th 2024

Noorderhoofd [51​.​98021° N, 4​.​11153° O]

Out of all digital recordings that I have made since 1991, this is the one I love the most. The bird is magic. 
Recorded with a Telinga stereo parabol and a Sony DAT TCD-D3 machine in June 1991. No filter.
You don´t need headphones for this track.

Whinchat

I performed a field recording using the new Zoom H1e Essential by comparing it with the Zoom F3 which features XLR type inputs.
For the occasion I prepared a special stereo baffle to be inserted into a 53 cm diameter parabolic dish. I define this baffle as "Twin Stereo Baffle" as I put two pairs of capsules (four total capsules as matched as possible) in order to have two stereo outputs with two 3.5 mm jack plugs to be connected, one directly to the Zoom H1e, the other using a 3.5mm adapter with two XLR plugs equipped with resistor and capacitor suitable for powering the two AOM 5024 capsules via F3.
Both recorders with Low Cut filter at 80 Hz.
No post processing.
Listening order: first the track with H1e followed by the one with F3, for both recordings.

ZOOM H1e Essential Vs. ZOOM F3 - GreatTit Blackcap Songs

MFOM 781 Spot: Before Other Minds

*Play on good speakers or headphones*
Geophones and ambisonic microphone array converted to binaural headphones

Spiders are affected by vibration in various ways. They use their orb webs to transmit and detect vibrational information, allowing them to sense potential prey or mates, as well as abiotic sources like wind.

Under stones and human detritus, in subterranean realms, lives troglodytic species of spider Nothophantes horridus. Nocturnally roaming in narrow fissures in this rich limestone habitat sporadically emerging. A UK biodiversity Action plan priority species, extremely rare and only exist in these two places in the world (both in Plymouth UK).
This rare arachnid  last home was a quarry, filled in with concrete and destroyed to make space for luxury unaffordable housing.

Planning permission was refused for this site in 2015, however the property developer is trying again with greenwashing plans for eco pods and activity park treating the natural world as a spectacle to be consumed and extracted from. Will this refuge for extremely rare spiders exist for much longer? Or will human greed and commerce make this spider extinct?

Failure to protect this site would be catastrophic.

A more than human space between the world that people and arachnids inhabit.

Vibrational Arachnid soundscape Radford Quarry Plymouth UK, 2024

I recorded our local Pipistrelle bats from my back garden last night - both 'common' and 'soprano' varieties.  It wasn't until I listened to my recordings this morning that I realised I had also captured the sound of a passing Noctule bat too! A real delight to hear one flying high overhead.  Bats make sounds too high in frequency for humans to hear - so the recordings need to be processed - usually in one of two ways.  Hetrondyne mixing - to shift the pitch of the sounds down in frequency to something that humans can hear. Or, 'time expansion' - basically stretching out the 'best bits' of the sounds in the time domain by slowing them right down.  Time expansion is similar to what is sometimes now called 'granular processing'. I used some of my 'music processing' equipment to process these sounds - once I had made a small library of the bat sound samples that I liked.  I turned it into a 10 minute 'symphony' using a variety of tape loops, pitch-shifting, granular synthesis, delays and a little bit of reverb.  I'm still experimenting with the mix between 'light touch' processing of my field sound recordings and something a bit more 'musical' - You might hear a hint of  a I–V–vi–IV chord progression of the Noctule towards the end of this symphony!  Recorded using an an Echo Touch Pro 2 microphone at 384 kHz (samples per second).  Equipment used for sound processing included a Chase Bliss Habit and Mood MK II, together with a Hologram Electronics Microcosm looper 'effects pedal'. Some reverb was added via both the Mood and Microcosm. No DAW was used - I mixed it all 'live' from the clips chopped on my Koala sampler. Simples! 
Photo of a nearby tree, taken in 720nm infrared.

Bat Symphony

Words and Music by Elza Libhart & Kevin Haines featuring Ryan Francis on Sax, Kevin on all other instruments, spoken word and production, Elza on sung lyrics and scat. Original Artwork by my very talented mother, Bette Mueller-Roemer

Blank Pages

Blank Pages - ft.Kevin Haines & Ryan Francis

I am a singer/songwriter and use music to connect to Spirit, to explore emotions and to connect with my audience and myself. Sometimes I go outdoors and record everyday sounds of life (e.g. people talking late at night on a London Bus or the sounds of my feet on the shingles at Aldeburgh Beach). Other times I'll go to Sacred Sites and sing and record the sounds of my voice and the wind. I write and perform with piano, guitar, shruti and light percussion (and bowls).

Artists Emerging

Clare Hedin

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