live stereo capture. Oct. 11, 2015.

from Arguments for Trivialism: shastacults.bandcamp.com

CMOS

The Aeolian Harp (also called Wind Harp) is a string instrument that is played by natural wind. It sounds like layered feedback or drones with rich harmonic textures that will change continuously according to the wind direction, strength and consistency. One day, I bought the materials at the local DIY store and built a small Aeolian Harp. I brought the harp outside on windy days, but it made no sound at all. Through trial and error, by altering the string materials, tension, and the angle against the wind, it finally produced a sound.

The harp resonates with the surrounding environment, changing from place to place. I put two lavalier microphones into each of its two holes to clearly record the tiny resonant sounds, without too much wind interference. What is intriguing to me is that the recording will inevitably include environmental sounds from near and far which are condensed and slightly modulated by the harp. In a way, I use the harp as a kind of transducer as well as sounding body to interact with the environment through the forces of the wind. The recordings themselves are ecological, meteorological and geomorphological observations at a certain time and place.


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Path of the Wind | Eisuke Yanagisawa

Coming in mid September is an absolutely lovely, pastorally infused, first album from Enofa (Ross Baker), entitled, “Arboretum”. Ross had released a collaborative album with us a few years back under the name, Middlemarch. His partner on that “Wolf Hall” release, Dimitris Avramidis, also contributes to this new effort as well.

For Ross, nature, and the inspiration derived from walking among the trees in the park and nature preserve near his home, plays a large part in the overall tone of this one long beautiful track. Like the Arboreta, which are regularly crafted to contain a range of contrasting shapes and colours, which gives them a very unique look and atmosphere,  this wondrous soundscape of sorts, incorporating field recordings, moody guitars and synth, and electronic treatments perfectly reflects the calming and mysterious feel of the long and languid  glorious English days of the moment. Wind chimes…the crackle of leaves underfoot….the light, swirling wind in the treetops…the sun breaking through the clouds…put this album on and you will find yourself strolling there as well!

TRS078 will come in two very limited, physical versions. The first, deluxe handmade version comes in an edition of just 50 copies. Each of these comes in the form of a collaged, stamped and hand worked vintage art deco, tri-fold photo folder, w/original photograph. Within each are collaged, vintage arboreal prints, dried leaves, and other arboreal ephemera. Each folder is extensively hand artified, and comes strung with a stamped tag made from an antique British cigarette card. Each comes with an attached, stamped black envelope containing a factory pressed CD, held on with an obi strip.

There is also a hand made standard version of Arboretum in an edition of 50 copies. These come in hand worked and altered, black digipaks, also with factory pressed discs.

This release is also available physically at our website, or digitally and physically at our Bandcamp page here…and here…

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Enofa..."Arboretum"  Track II

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Incline

From the album Luft, released on 08/08/2019 on Eilean Rec.

For full album:
https://michaelcutting.bandcamp.com/album/luft

Seeking Safe Harbour

Writer, director and actress Miranda July discusses the surreality of releasing a surreal movie in an even more surreal time—and the eternal magic of kissing, cakes and clothes.

Miranda July

>>> MUSIC >>>

Marc Schmolling - Twas Brillig
Yosa Peit  - Serpentine
Phil Smith - Park House Suite, I. Harmonium
Phil Smith - Park House Suite, II. Owen’s Drum Kit
Marc Schmolling - One Eye Awake
Harold Budd - Madrigals Of The Rose Angel
Into the Wind - Time Is Like A Canvas
Rameses III - Across The Lake Is Where My Heart Shines
Antony & Bryce Dessner - I Was Young When I Left Home
Marc Schmolling - White Silence
Stephen Jenkinson & Gregory Hoskins - Mother Canoe
Stars of the Lid - Ballad of Distances, Part 2
Marc Schmolling - Twas Brillig
Jake Xerxes Fussell - Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?
Fabiana Striffler - Drawing But One Sound (feat. Paul Santner)

>>> WORDS >>>

Extracts from interview with Stephen Jenkinson (2020-06-09)
Hilary and Brian Good read from Alma Cara by John O'Donohue
Words from Sister Chân Hội Nghiêm recorded at Plum Village Monastic Centre, France (2019-08-14)
Conversation in an operating theatre, recorded in Cape Town, South Africa (2017-11-16) 
Phil Smith reads Poem ("Some are too much at home"...) by Denise Levertov
Conversation with Marc Schmolling (about his latest album, Suvenýr)
Scenes from Alice in Wonderland - Through the Looking Glass (feat. Joan Greenwood & Stanley Holloway) by Lewis Carroll

NTS: Phil's Jazz Dis-junction [2020]

Jazz Dis-junction - The Lost Chord (On Belonging) [NTS Radio, 2020-11-29]

What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

A Strange Year - Disc One - (Album Sample)

Rain falling on the branches of a dead mopane tree in the Namib desert. Recorded with Sony PCM D10 and a pair of Lom mikroUsi microphones taped to the dry branches. Read about my epedition to Namibia at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/namibia-sound-recording-2020

Chromatic Rain

Belonging. Human connection. Vulnerability. Failure. Perseverance. On this episode, Brené Brown discusses the highs and lows of her creative journey—and the essential elements of a life lived bravely.

Design Matters From the Archive: Brené Brown

Le Discograph est un rendez vous qui a lieu 4 fois dans l'année à La Passerelle, scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc avec pour chaque soirée une thématique.

Parfois omniprésente, toujours essentielle, la musique de films est un art délicat : elle se doit d’accompagner avec finesse et caractère les images à l’écran. Mais au-delà de son apport esthétique, c’est un langage à part entière, au fort pouvoir émotionnel sur le spectateur.

S’appuyant sur des morceaux spécialement composés pour des bandes originales de films, Julien Tiné nous propose une sélection de ses thèmes musicaux préférés. C'est pour la musique elle-même ou par amour des films - et bien souvent les deux ! - que les choix se sont faits. Des compositeurs tels qu'Ennio Morricone, Philippe Sarde ou Vladimir Cosma auraient pu valoir à eux seuls un mix, les B.O. de films de genre tels que les films d'horreur ou la blaxploitation également.

On peut se perdre assez vite dans cet univers alors… laissez-vous aller à cette B.O. imaginaire !

Playlist : 

01 - Philippe Sarde - Beau Père (Beau Père)
02 - Miles Davis - L'assasinat de Carala (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
03 - David Shire - Amy's Theme (The conversation)
04 - Ennio Morricone - Immoralita (L'immoralita)
05 - Bill Conti - Philadelphia Morning (Rocky)
06 - Vladimir Cosma - Etienne et Charlotte (Un éléphant ca trompe énormément)
07 - Sebastien - J'adore Godard
08 - Karl Heinz Schafer - Les Preuves (Les gants blancs du diable)
09 - Alain Goraguer - Le Bracelet (La Planète sauvage)
10 - Nico Fidenco - The meal is over (Black Emmanuelle)
11 - Vladimir Cosma - Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire 
12 - Ennio Morricone - Le Casse (Le Casse)
13 - Roland Vincent - LSD Partie (Delphine)
14 - Michel Magne - Thème de Fantomas (Fantomas)
15 - Mica Levi - Children (Jackie)
16 - John Williams - Jaws (Les dents de la mer)
17 - John Carpenter - He Came Home (Halloween)
18 - Popol Vuh - Der Marktplatz (Cobra Verde)
19 - Goblin - Profondo Rosso (Profondo Rosso)
20 - Riz Ortolani - Adulteress Punishment (Cannibal Holocaust)
21 - Serge Gainsbourg - Jane dans la nuit (Cannabis)
22 - Pierre Bachelet - O et Sir Stephen (Hisoire d'O)
23 - Air - Afternoon sister (Virgin Suicides)
24 - Emmanuelle Arzan - Laure
25 - Alain Goraguer - La comtesse se dévergonde (Erotica)
26 - Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (Superfly)
27 - Marvin Gaye - T stands for trouble (Trouble Man)
28 - Roy Ayers - Escape (Coffy)
29 - Piero Umiliani - Hard Times (Il Corpo)
30 - François de Roubaix - Xavier à la maison d'arrêt (La Scoumoune)
31 - Philippe Sarde - La lettre de Rosalie (César & Rosalie)
32 - Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Neil's farewell (Mysterious Skin)
33 - Gabriel Yared - C'est le vent Betty (37,2 le matin)
34 - Charlélie Couture - Corde raide acoustique (Tchao Pantin)
35 - Angelo Badalamenti - Love theme from Twin Peaks (Twin Peaks)
36 - Michael Andrews - The artifact & living (Donnie Darko)
37 - Clint Mansell - First Sleep (Solaris)
38 - Vincent Gallo - Her smell theme (The way it is)
39 - George Delerue - Thème de Camille (Le mépris)

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Discograph "Musique de films"

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