Black-fronted titi call in Atlantic forest 

Recorded at 6:40am in Serrinha do Alambari, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
With ORTF Schoeps microphones in Sound devices Mixpre-6 24 bits 96kHz

Thanks to Felix Blume & Gregoire Chauvot for their gear.

Callicebus Nigrifrons Call

It may not be much in the news, but 10 years ago Occupy Wall St began as a tiny encampment in Zuccotti Park. I've been thinking about Occupy recently and how its ostensible failure molted into a success, shifting the conversation to economic inequality, spawning a generation of activists, and morphing into practical activist projects such as the disaster relief offered by Occupy Sandy and other campaigns.

Live at Occupy Wall Street 2011-2012 (torso version) presents a collision of many ideas and experiences at Occupy. 

Sourced from front-line field recordings made at Zuccotti Park as well as at other affiliated marches and protests in 2011-2012, "Live at Occupy Wall St 2011-2012 (torso version)" captures unusual sonic phenomena such as "the people's microphone" and cooperative asynchronous performances which includes marching rhythms out of sync due to distance or ongoing movement (Charles Ives might have been delighted) along with autonomous chants and stray comments whose meaning has magnified with time.

I hope you will give it a listen. As always, headphones are best.

ps This work also embodies aspects of phonography, which:

- Does not conform to established, commercially driven ideas of "quality," technique," "fidelity," and subject matter.

- Liberates the forbidden elements of field recording including mic handling, hiss, narrow frequency response, distorted proximity effect, haphazard directionality, drop-outs, device self-noise, glitchy edits.

- Erodes the erroneous idea that recordings objectively represent one "reality."

- Employs varied and varying recording fidelities expands the palette of procedures and techniques and deploys various and sometimes multiple microphones and recording equipment

- Affirms the inevitable influence (and presence) of the recordist and recording equipment both in the field and in the studio

Thank you for listening!
Christopher DeLaurenti
14 September 2021

Live at Occupy Wall St 2011-2012 torso version

4.33 Gales Rains Windowpanes

April 16th 2022. 67th(R) Subway, Queens. 7:47 PM

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Eavesdropping on a conversation amongst bullfrogs along Clear Creek in Coralville, Iowa. Recorded with a matched stereo pair of Rode NT5 mics paired in ORTF configuration.

Bullfrogs along Clear Creek, Coralville, Iowa

Your Felt Path by Olafur Eliasson at Sesc Pompeia

Stereo mix of eight-channel, electroacoustic music

Breath and the Machine

g-maze

A drone composition focused on the pitches (C, C#, D, Eb) to support personal reflection of the concept of race with regard to Black-White race relations.

Race

Each year, at the Hiroshima Peace Park, a pagoda peace bell is rung on August 6th at 8:15 a.m. I witnessed that ringing last in 2005. Some forty thousand people gathered at the park early that morning for the yearly ritual. And when the assembly was hushed for the ringing of the bell, I was overwhelmed not by our collective silence, but rather by the density of sound surrounding us. Cicadas. I experienced an instant ear flash, to say: that sixty years earlier, at the detonation 1900 feet above the city, cicadas were the last sound heard by the forty-five thousand people who perished instantly into the hottest heat, the brightest light, and the loudest sound in world history. That’s what was on my mind when I recorded the bell, and later the sounds of cicadas, to mix together. To create a historical patina, I played the sound back through two 1940s radio sets, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and re-recorded it the way it might have sounded if broadcast on that day. This composition was commissioned by the International Community Foundation and is dedicated to all who suffered from the nuclear atrocity.

The recording is available on CD:  https://voxlox.myshopify.com/products/steven-feld-the-time-of-bells-4

07 Hiroshima  The Last Sound

L'écho de la ronde_Kra KOUASSI

My sound work encompasses field recordings, electroacoustic and acousmatic music, text-sound scores, free-improvised low-tech electronics, and compositions for acoustic instruments. 

Live at Occupy Wall St 2011-2012 torso version

Christopher DeLaurenti

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