STS349Sauce - Assignment 7 - Whale Song- Jose Contreras

STS349Sauce-Assignment7- Aron Shrestha and Dhyey Kansagara - Whale Safari

A progressive track intended to evolve and evoke the feeling of watching over your shoulder. Uses both electric guitar and samples as well as electronic drums and filters.

I will make my mistakes into a breakdown ft. yaya banaya ft. cronjob ft. USAGII

Nahráno s hydrofonem Aquabeat na kamenitém pobřeží Kréty, poblíž přístaviště v Paleochoře. V tůni jsem vypozoroval několik druhů menších ryb, různé hlemýždě a malé kraby, komu ale patří jaký hlas, to nemám nejmenší tušení. Hlučení na pozadí jsou vlny tříštící se o kameny a projíždějící čluny/lodě.

Recorded with the Aquabeat hydrophone on the rocky coast of Crete, near the port of Paleochora. I spotted several species of smaller fish, various snails and small crabs in the pool, but who is making which sounds I have no idea. The background noise is mostly waves crashing on rocks and passing boats.

z přílivové tůně / from the tidal pool

1) JrF d-series hydrophones (pair) 

2) cetacean research hydrophone £ (considerably more expensive than JrF - they don't display prices on their website !)

3) aquarian hydrophone £ again considerably more expensive the JrF hydrophones.

recorded on a recent field trip / workshop in Iceland that I was leading along with Chris Watson. All examples were recorded into Sound Devices 7-series recorders & are unprocessed.

lets just say i'm proud of the hydrophones I produce & the fact that I keep the costs within reach of most folks. 


Husavik hydrophone comparisions

Welcome to Rhythm Soul Music Group/Records!

Janáček 4-track

SF Tape Festival 2012: 
Syrinx is an exploration of the common harmonic ground between recorded 
bird sounds, human voice, insects, and a variety of high-frequency electronic 
textures. The piece began as an attempt to determine when, sonically, a bird 
becomes a bug, a voice, or a synthetic version of itself, and dissolved over 
the course of its creation into introspection, an oppressive field of locusts, 
ominous drones, interpretations of Sylvia Plath, celestial float.


Kristin Miltner is a composer, intermedia artist and sound designer living 
in Oakland, California. She most often performs music live with versions of 
her custom software. She has designed this to scan sound files and live input, 
allowing her to instantly restructure the sounds into rhythmic, sequenced 
arrays of units of varying lengths. Her recent album, “Music for Dreaming 
and Playing” (Asthmatic Kitty) is influenced by her day job as a composer 
and sound designer for games. In it, she “takes individual pieces of harmony-rich, ambient textures and tessellates them with blocks of sharp-edged 
8-bit detritus, arranging a Tetris-inspired mosaic that fuses the best of both 
worlds.”(A. Good, Verbicide Magazine)

Syrinx (San Francisco Tape Music Festival, 2012)

with low grunts and high whoops, all part of a highly structured underwater animal music

This is a section from Google's fabulous Pattern Radio project, (https://patternradio.withgoogle.com/)— thousands of hours of humpback whale song publicly available for anyone to explore. Here the background noise removed to improve the sound.

Precise location of this sound clip is:
2015-02-19T02:36:39.263Z	2015-02-19T02:36:53.120Z

A varied humpback song

Sabre Dance

For Voice and Live Electronics (Strophonion)
Composed and performed by Alex Nowitz

Documentation of premiere performance by Dietrich Petzold on the
23 August 2020 as part of the intersonanzen 2020 in Potsdam, Germany.

The realisation of the project was made possible by the kind support of the MWKF, the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the Land Brandenburg, Germany. 

The material of the composition is based on audio samples of a nightingale recorded by flautist and sound artist Sabine Vogel and the live voice and whistles by the composer-performer.

Programme Note:
“There is a strange tradition being maintained in Southern Europe and Northern Africa. Applying large nets bird hunters catch migrating birds to eat them or to sell them as ’delicacy’ on the market. For years and years a nightingale returned to one spot in our garden in Potsdam — not so in the year before last. It may have died otherwise, but it is also possible that it got caught in bird hunting nets. The composition is based on audio samples of this bird recorded by flautist and sound artist Sabine Vogel. The material is being displayed and manipulated through the application of gesture-controlled live electronics, the strophonion, and being contrasted by the live voice including whistles and a few extended techniques. Based on this tension – between the human being and the bird in absentia – a fictitious sound dialogue evolves. It is clear that this piece aims to denounce the dubious ‘cultural’ technique of hunting birds.” (Alex Nowitz, August 2020)

The artist wishes to thank Sabine Vogel, Dietrich Petzold and Sukandar Kartadinata, Joachim Liebig as well as the MWFK of the Land Brandenburg!

Starting in 2010, the gesture-controlled live electronics, the strophonion, was developed and built at STEIM in Amsterdam. Gradually, since 2014, Berlin-based Sukandar Kartadinata takes care of hardware design and maintenance, software programming and updating the configuration based on Max 7. For more information on the strophonion visit following link:
https://nowitz.de/gesture-controlled-live-electronics
or read the article 
Alex Nowitz: "Designing and Playing the Strophonion: Extending vocal art performance using a custom digital musical instrument", 'eContact! 18.3 — Sonic DIY: Repurposing the Creative Self' (December 2016), Montréal,
https://econtact.ca/18_3/nowitz_strophonion.html.

Photo: Joachim Liebig

A varied humpback song

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