Echo of Species_01 - Benoît Pioulard (US - Kranky)
with spoken words from Alan Watts.

@pioulard
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This episode features selected tracks by @khotin, @altars-altars, @jefre-cantu-ledesma, @fiafiell, Anjou, Mikron, @ann-annie-music, @bibio, Viul, @loscil.

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Benoît Pioulard's words about his participation:

"Simply enough, our environmental problems are the most important issue facing humanity, and will continue to be either until they destroy us or until we do enough to change them and suitably sustain our habitat.  The most important thing is awareness and action on a personal level; to try to avoid causing further harm, and be thoughtful about consumption."

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As Benoît Pioulard, multi-instrumentalist/writer Thomas Meluch combines found sounds, electronics, and bittersweet pop into dreamy songs and contemplative ambient pieces. On some albums, such as 2006's debut Précis and 2010's Lasted, his more structured compositions dominate; on others, like 2013's Hymnal and 2015's Sonnet, his mastery at sculpting atmospheres prevails. Meluch celebrated the project's tenth anniversary with The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter, which balanced both sides of his music and served as a reminder of his unique skill at bringing these sounds together in natural and complementary ways.

To know more about the artist: linktr.ee/pioulard

You can support Benoît Pioulard through his Bandcamp, here: 
https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/

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Echo of Species 01 - Benoît Pioulard

Echo of Species 02 - Eddie Ladoire (FR - Unendliche Studio)
with spoken words from Clément Choisne.

@ladoire-eddie
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This episode is an original creation, called "Nantes".
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Eddie Ladoire's words about his participation:

"I used words from a graduated French engineer - Clément Choisne - who summaries what we currently experience in France and Europe: A delay and misunderstanding of institutions in front of ecological issues. For my episode, I wanted to create a piece close to the ambient/drone music to soothe the spoken words and at the same time to make listeners aware of the gravity of those topics. I think it's essential for us, artists, musicians, poets, etc. to compose about our place in society."
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Eddie Ladoire lives and works near Bordeaux, France. After a double career path in decorative arts and electroacoustic music at the Bordeaux Conservatoire, he is now both a visual artist and a musician, composing electroacoustic music and creating sound installations. Cities, landscapes and everyday life are for him fields of experimentation and a source for inspiration.

To know more about the artist: http://unendliche-studio.com/eddieladoire/

You can support Eddie Ladoire through his Bandcamp, here:
https://eddieladoire.bandcamp.com/

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Echo of Species 02 - Eddie Ladoire

Echo of Species 03 - Knappy Kaisernappy (UA-FR - Odessa)

@equintin1
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This episode features selected tracks by Vvanya Samokrutkin, ГОЛОСА ПТИЦ, @ellenfullman, G.Combes, Justin Walker, @robonom, Mireille Chamass Kyrou, Blinskiy-Microphine, Jong, @nowherearu, Foul Art Group.

This episode features selected content from ESA (European Space Agency).

+ Knappy Kaisernappy, with Edits, Intro/Outro, and Improvisation with an Analog Semi-Modular Synth.
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Knappy Kaisernappy's words about her participation:

“I like to produce and record music in the studio. I enjoy the process of thinking and recording podcasts alone. This aspect of music, calm and daily, contrasts with the context of the performance, mostly nocturnal. 

Within the first ten minutes of the mix, we can hear a record which was released by the soviet label мелодия in 1968. It is called "Voices of birds"(ГОЛОСА ПТИЦ). You can listen to the voices of different birds like Woodcock or Snipe, for example, and also the sound of the record itself damaged by the years. A record is a material object. It reaches us today with the marks of time, full of scars on the skin. Objects age and dies too. I like this record very much. It is a gift from Igor Shargar, the cover of this 12inch presents an illustration composed of many trees (birch) - i like to draw very much in life, and the tree was a reminiscent figure in my work at one moment.

As i was working on this project, i thought about the thousand of mixes that "we" drop online every day. Their energetic costs exist. As i upload a lot of music on the internet as a DJ and musician, i decided that i will delete one of my mixes the day this mix will be released. I do not know if this action has any real impact, to be honest, but I think that we should think about this aspect of the development of web radios and podcasts projects. 

Some myths keep strong, internet like a "virtual" environment, data/digital like ethereal and bodiless things (without impact and consequences), it is not valid.” 
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Elsa Quintin, based France / Ukraine (Odessa) 

Drawer, musician, DJ, composes and plays as Knappy Kaisernappy (DJ, edits, intro/outro material), PI DOOM (extratone live act). She co-runs the platform and music label Системa, with Vvanya Samokrutkin. Elsa is Radio Host, Resident Rinse France (2017-2019) through the show Системa. Editor/ Coppélia Press. Art Teacher/Author.

To know more about the artist: https://ledessinobserve.tumblr.com/

You can support Knappy Kaisernappy through her music label’s Bandcamp, here:
https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/

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Echo of Species 03 - Knappy Kaisernappy

Echo of Species 04 - Adam Pultz Melbye (DK) 
with spoken words by Silvia Andrade, from the text "Leverage Points – Places to intervene in a system" (Donella Meadows Project)

@adampultz
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This episode features unreleased work from Adam Pultz Melbye, spoken words by Silvia Andrade and materials from the Donella Meadows Project.
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Adam Pultz Melbye's words about his participation:

"I am very grateful to the Donella Meadows Project for granting me permission to use excerpts of her important essay Leverage Points – Places to intervene in a system. The text is a strikingly clear exposition of many of the complex challenges facing us, but also offers paths to a solution. What seems central to me, is that the idea of economic and material growth needs to be challenged. Otherwise there is no hope for humanity. That is a blunt and dark prophecy, but I fail to see how unlimited growth on a planet with finite resources is possible, let alone desirable. I asked the brilliant visual artist Silvia Andrade to record the text. Silvia’s artistic practice includes spoken word and I find her voice and clear intonation very fitting to the project. The music on this podcast is a collection of unreleased work dating back two years. I would like to thank Madelynne Cornish at Bogong Centre for Sound Culture for the stellar recording job on the last piece.

Please note that the text presented here is not the full text of Leverage Points. However, I hope that the listener’s interest has been triggered and suggest anyone to read the full essay, available online.

Please visit the Donella Meadows project at http://donellameadows.org/
Silvia Andrade’s work can be found here: http://www.silviaandrade.com/

Courtesy of the Donella Meadows Project at the Academy for Systems Change - A project dedicated to Donella Meadows’ inspiring vision for systems change.”

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To know more about the artist: 

"I am a composer, improviser, researcher and sound artist, originally trained as a double bass player. I am Danish, but currently based between Berlin and Belfast. Currently, my work focuses on the design of and performance with adaptive and self-organizing sonic systems, often involving the double bass and various forms of feedback processes. These systems are also the subject of my practice-led PhD research at Queens University’s Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast. I am concerned with creating autonomous processes that give a sense of life and agency to the systems I perform with and am at the moment exploring the theories and practices of cybernetics as an artistic approach that can challenge our illusion of human superiority. 
At times my practice is interdisciplinary and I enjoy working with dance, image, sculpture and film. I have toured in large parts of Europe, the US, Japan and Australia as a solo artist, as well as with various ensembles and I appear on around 40 recordings on various labels. Two of these recent releases present an attempt at spreading music through less polluting and awkward means than CD or LP; they come on vacuum-sealed broken bass strings and tea, respectively.
http://adampultz.com/"

You can support Adam Pultz through his Bandcamp, here: https://adampultz.bandcamp.com/

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Echo of Species 04 - Adam Pultz Melbye

Echo of Species 05 - Mira Calix (UK - @warp-records) 
with spoken words from Greta Thunberg, Isra Hirsa, Lily Platt, Hilda Flavia Nakabuya & Luisa Neubauer.

"Do You Hear Your children?"
@mira-calix

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This episode features selected tracks by @revgalen, Maurice Ravel, @johann-johannsson-official, Benjamin Britten, @camille-official, @lauracannell, The Grubby Mitts, Ricky & Mbasalala, @thomas-ades, David Lang, @mira-calix, @efterklang
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Mira Calix's words about her participation:
"I heard the first song on a mix made by a friend on twitter only a few months ago, and i really loved it. I thought it was old but i discovered it was new, it really set up the concept for my mix, because it has struck me that at the heart of the current climate strikes sit the voices of young people, in particular, women and girls. It is their voices i hear most, and it a noticeable change from that of most political discourse which has been dominated by older men for what feels like my lifetime. Like many others, i have been motivated and informed by Greta Thunberg, but there are so many incredible youngsters working locally, regionally across the world. 

By creating a collage of music and speeches, i wanted in some small way to draw attention to what seems so unique within this movement, what gives me hope, these young people. It’s my small contribution to the provocation and call out to address the climate emergency - urgently! I belong to a group called culture declares - the best way to describe it, is it’s the arts arm of Extinction Rebellion based in the U.K. It’s a way for artists and institutions to get involved and bring about change using their skillsets, if like Echo Of Species, you work in this area, please do consider declaring like i have at  https://www.culturedeclares.org/ none of us are perfect, but together we can make a difference in our personal sphere, but more importantly by taking our representatives to task and demanding they find a global, collaborative solution to a global problem."

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To know more about the artist:
"Mira Calix is an award-winning artist and composer based in the United Kingdom. Music and sound, which she considers a sculptural material, are at the centre of her practice. Her work explores the manipulation of the material into visible, physical forms through multi-disciplinary installations, sculpture, video and performance works. Calix’s practice is deliberately disjunctive, allowing research, site, and subject to influence a fluid choice of materials and mediums."

You can support Mira Calix here: https://warp.net/artists/91394-mira-calix

http://www.miracalix.com/

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Echo of Species 05 - Mira Calix

Echo of Species 06 - Suso Sáiz (ES - RCA Records, Music from Memory)

@saizsuso
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This episode features selected tracks by Roman Hiele (@hielehiele) & Lieven Martens Moana (@lieven-moana-nui), Johnny Hostile, Hugh Marsch, SK U KNO (@suzannekraft), David Sylvian (@david-sylvian-official) & Stephen Mathieu, Felicia Atkinson (@fefeatkinson), James Holden (@jamesholden), Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, Visible Cloaks (@visiblecloaks) & Yoshio Ojima (@yoshio-ojima) & Satsuki Shibano, Lightbath (@lightbath), Mark Fell (@markfellofficial), Gossamer (@gossamer).

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To know more about the artist: 
Avant-garde musician, composer and producer, Suso Sáiz is an imaginative and subtle guitar, creator of unmistakable “hypnotics”. His tireless activity covers a broad spectrum of music and other disciplines, where the interrelation with the plastic arts, theater, films and poetry occupy a prominent place. He has produced more than 100 records and he has played and collaborate with a number of luminary electronic and world music artists. He has published more than 20 albums - the most recent “Odisea” (2016), “Rainworks” (2017) and “Nothing Is Objective” (2019) on the Dutch label Music From Memory (MFM).

You can support Suso Sáiz here:
https://www.musicfrommemory.com/artist/suso-siz

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Echo of Species 06 - Suso Sáiz

Echo of Species 07 - Mondkopf (FR - In Paradisum / Hands In The Dark)
Live at Médiathèque Musicale de Paris

@mondkopf

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Mondkopf's words about his participation:
"In 2019, I received a proposal from the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris for a concert during a "Music and Nature" cycle. For the occasion, they offered to come and search their collection of records to find material and offer a live in the form of my choice. I chose to focus at the beginning on the recordings of whales and other cetaceans, and then I drifted towards the forest, where I heard all kinds of birds and wolves. All these animals have in common a very singular language, with an impressive number of frequency variations. By focusing on it, I really heard conversations as complex as that of humans. So I used this material to create a kind of animal choir, which would sing with my own tools and for the public. I had spotted a piano in the room where I was to play, and on the day of the concert, I decided to improvise on it to accompany wolves, owls, and other night animals. The live I offer for Echos of Species is a second recording of this live made at home, with better recording conditions. I kept the live piano of the first performance at the end because I doubt that I would have managed to recreate this moment :) Good listening and be kind to the planet !"

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To know more about the artist:
Paul Régimbeau, aka Mondkopf, is a household name among the edgiest international festivals such as ATP, LUFF, Bozar or CTM, post-industrial warehouses of northern Europe, industrial parties (Berghain in Berlin, Kaos in London) as well as more solemn atmospheres of churches, museums (BAL, Pompidou Center in Paris) or auditoriums (Philarmonie de Paris, Lyon’s Auditorium). Mondkopf has put forward his talents as a live artist, giving his melodic ambient music a power and a rager inspired by extreme metal. After a long period of solitary evolution, he has developed in this last years multiple collaborative projects, with Charlemagne Palestine, Saaad (in Foudre), Autrenoir, Oiseaux-Tempête, the Japanese black metal band Vampilia and the noise American artist Pete Swanson (in VMO), Libanese guitarist Charbel Haber (in Good Luck In Death). After co-founding In Paradisum records in 2011, he has been running since 2018 the record label Nahal Recordings with Frederic D. Oberland, gathering a community of outsiders around a shared passion for live improvisation, the mix of rock structures and sound synthesis, and cinematographic atmospheres.
 
Wire Magazine described his last album, They fall but you don’t, as the "the only music that fits that once promising and much abused term power ambient: massive sharp-edged drones, slow lightning cracks of guitars, Tangerine Dream synths curling around one another, everything glowering with an inner intensity that still feels closely reined in". Indeed, while  Mondkopf’s music has long been rather dark, heavy and abrasive, his trajectory testifies for a profound attachment to a sound that associates harmonic flourishment with experimentation, which doesn’t come as a surprise when you learn that he grew up listening to Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Morton Feldman, Brian Eno, Ash Ra Temple or even Vangelis. 

You can support Mondkopf here: https://handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/how-deep-is-our-love

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Credits:
Mondkopf
Live at Médiathèque Musicale de Paris

Music by Mondkopf
Modular system, voice, effects, and piano played by Mondkopf
Recorded & mixed by Mondkopf
Field recordings from:
Songs Of The Humpback Whale (1970)
Jun Kawabata - Mind Migration (Voyage To The Whale) (1992)
Jean C. Roché - Chouettes Et Hiboux
Dan Gibson - Night On a Wilderness Lake (1982)

Thanks to Damien Poncet and all crew of the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris!

https://mediathequemusicaledeparis.wordpress.com/

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Echo of Species 07 - Mondkopf

Echo of Species 08 - Marta SmiLga (LV)

@marta_smilga
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This episode is an original live creation.
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To know more about the artist:
Marta SmiLga* & asterisk untitled** are projects of a Riga based arist Liga Smirnova. Since early childhood her main interest has been music, though her deep passion for electronic music and sound synthesis established at the time she conducted an in-depth research of electroacoustic music while studying musicology at Latvian Academy of Music. Liga is one of the SHAPE platform artists, nominated by Skanu Mezs festival in 2019. Currently she is a product specialist at Erica Synths, so the research of sound synthesis continues in even more practical manner.

*Marta SmiLga is an experimental ambient music project, which is focused on synthesizing deep immersive cosmic soundscapes, using only electronic music instruments, mostly modular and keyboard synthesizers.

**asterisk untitled is a heavenly noise music project, which celebrates beauty and completeness of an abundant sound spectrum, resulted from harsh synthetic noises arranged in raw rhythmic structures.

You can support Marta SmiLga here: https://martasmilga.bandcamp.com/

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Echo of Species 08 - Marta SmiLga

Echo of Species 09 - Baby Vulture (MX)

@baby-vulture
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This episode, "Cannibal Spirits", features selected tracks and sounds by Pauline Oliveros (@paulineoliveros), Ana Rosa, Maria Sabina, Chris Watson (@itischriswatson), Kevin Durr, Andrew Pekler (@pekler), Ellen Arkbro (@ellenarkbro), Beatrice Dillon (@beatricedillon), Mika Vaino, Stéphane Marin (@st-phane-marin), Sea Urchin, Flutes, Dolphins, Serpents, Mosquitos, Bats, Birds, Seals, Waters, Myself and many others.
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Baby Vulture's words about her participation:
"Cannibal Spirits - This sound narrative is dedicated to all those animals, plants, flowers, airs, waters and human voices that are in turbulence or extinction. I wanted to create silence and vast space at times, but I also needed to have more intense moments where feelings such as sorrow, desperation or extreme joy could be heard and felt. It is a prayer celebrating life and death."
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To know more about the artist: 
Born in Mexico, Daniela Huerta is a Berlin based artist who’s work oscillates between performance art, sound production, and multimedia projects. She has developed her own multi-layered and eclectic form of DJing under the moniker Baby Vulture.

When she raises her many voices it is like a call, pure, long and throbbing. She digs, she excavates. In an almost archeological manner, she keeps searching for distinct tones and noises that she turns into transportive collages where fragments of sound, space, and time come together. 

You can support Baby Vulture here:
https://huertadaniela.tumblr.com/

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Echo of Species 09 - Baby Vulture

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

@moonbowmusic
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This episode features tracks from Arve Henriksen (@arve-henriksen), Ulla (@ullastraus), Chihei Hatakeyama (@chiheihatakeyama), αίών, Theta Wave, Emily A. Sprague (@mlesprg), Carbon Based Lifeforms (@carbon-based-lifeforms), State Azure (@state-azure), FRKTL (@frktl), Kareem Lotfy (@kareemlotfy), Saphilieaum, Octo Octa (@octoocta), Mabe Fratti (@mabefs), Unknown, M. Geddes Gengras (@green-machines), Pataphysical (@pataphysicaltransmission), Legion of Green Men (@legion-of-green-men), Vida Vojić (@vida-vojic), Carmen Villain (@carmenvillain), Dolphin Midwives (@dolphinmidwives), ose, sonmi451 (@sonmi451), Biosphere (@officialbiosphere), Andrea, Stephan Haluska (@stephanhaluska), spoken words by Donna J. Haraway, and materials from the podcast "For The Wild"
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Moonbow's words about their participation:
"Recently I have been enamoured by the work of Donna J. Haraway: a professor, writer and scholar whose work critiques the seprativist perception between humans and non-humans. Imagined as an alternative to the term "Anthropocene", Haraway instead proposes a successive epoch, which she calls the "Chthulucene", wherein multi-species kinship thrives.

Interspersed with samples taken from an interview with Haraway on "For The Wild", one of my favourite podcasts, the mix I have made is a proposed soundtrack for such entangled worlds. It is an ambient deep listening journey that spirals through multiplicities of landscapes, seasons and atmospheres. Many of the tracks that feature in the mix, I listened to over the last year whilst recovering from a physical, chronic illness that was the result of overworking like a machine within our capitalist system. Listening to ambient music and spending time in my small, but wild, garden, played a crucial role in my healing. I strongly believe that a slower, attentive, less extractive pace is what is needed in the route towards climate justice -- and so it was important to me to include many of these tracks in the mix."

Thanks to Donna Haraway & For The Wild Podcast for granting permission to use samples. 

Please visit https://forthewild.world/podcast
Donna J. Haraway’s work can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
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To know more about Moonbow:

Moonbow is the project of London based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick. Alongside working as a photographer and music video director, their avant-pop music production interweaves a vortex of ambient soundscapes, maximalist sci-fi rhythms and political lyricism. Meanwhile, their colourful DJ sets and mixtapes are an exercise in storytelling that delve into melancholia & euphoria, old & new, organic & synthetic. A refusal to be defined by genre, gender or media underpins Moonbow’s artistic voice, which is at once eclectic and also undeniably their own.

Soon to release their debut album on 33-33’s label, the record will be released alongside a book of prose and collaborative photography created by Hardwick. Titled "8" the project imagines a climate fiction narrative where technocratic powers use the last reserves of energy, on an otherwise resource-depleted-earth, to mass migrate to cyberspace. However, when it is discovered that there is only limited bandwidth and resources to do so, a familiar story of corruption unfolds. Interweaving issues of colonialism, industrialisation, borders, net neutrality, and dogmatic constructs of the “good versus evil narrative”, the story is told from the perspective of several fictional alter egos, who are in a relationship with a capitalist system that favours extraction over nurture.

You can support Moonbow here: https://elhardwick.com/

You can support artists directly: https://buymusic.club/list/moonbow-echo-of-species-mix-tracklist?fbclid=IwAR0XaezV_PWFPGfx5x5DA-_y54NBgroJctwuqDpQn4ZmyFkUFj2C3lIy8K4

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Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

Echo of Species 11 - Sounds From Dreams Forgotten

@soundsfromdreamsforgotten
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This episode features selected tracks by Mirt (@mirt-1), Chris Child & Micah Frank, Pleq (@bartoszdziadosz), Sofie Birch (@sofiebirch), Tom Ehrlich, Alicia Leonilda Bonnet, Robert Bob Martin, Junius Paul, ILL CONSIDERED (@ill-considered), Serpent’s Isle.

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Sounds From Dreams Forgotten's words:
"When I came across Echo of Species and listened to great artists who have been taking part in a relay of musical stories about the state of our planet in the context of ecological collapse, more and more disturbing news related to COVID-19 circulated the world. And I was more and more aware that we are facing one of perhaps the biggest crises in our globalized world. While no one knows when it will end and if at all, one thing is certain. At the symbolic level, it shows how nature is a complex whole with an unbelievable amount of connections.

Today we are facing an opponent who is blind. He has no intention. It is simply one of the mechanisms in which nature works, this time very deadly for humans. But for us, it is primarily a global responsibility exam. If we, hopefully, pass it, it means we've got a chance. An opportunity that we must use for a new, global view of the world we live in, remembering that our responsibility for the planet as the most intelligent creatures on earth is the greatest. May we are still able to use it for the good of all species on earth.

This mix is a symbolic story about this time. But without literal connotations and genre defined boundaries. It is a soundtrack of a state of mind and not an illustration of what is happening around us. There are no spoken words in it, although you can hear various sounds of field recordings, including sounds of nature, which somewhere in the background observes our struggle. It starts innocently, though you can feel anxiety. Then the shock comes when we realize what is happening. Then acceptance of new conditions is slowly emerging. Finally rebirth. And a new world. But will it be better? I hope so."
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Album (marcin.blajecki)

Echo of Species 11 - Sounds From Dreams Forgotten

Echo of Species 12 - Amosphère

@amosphere
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This episode features selected tracks by Biosphere & Deathprod, Harumi Hosono, Wendy Carlos, Luc Ferrari, Brian Eno & Jon Hassell, Laraaji (@laraaji), Daniel Schmidt, and Hiroshi Yoshimura.
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Amosphère's words:
"Tonight, the peak of a meteor shower, the April Lyrids.

Planet earth, five decades after, watching some images of itself peaking over the moon’s horizon, captured for the first time by human beings from Apollo 8 on 1968. This time inside its room, in front of a screen.

The univers, balancing every single cell of each living creature inside of it, exchanging the cosmic addresses between them. Somewhere in the galaxy, on the balance named equilibrium of earth’s biosphere, exalted nature on one side, and extracted nature on the other side.

Unnumbered creatures have been sent to the univers recently. What are the destinations of those souls? Perhaps they will come back for a visit as an April Lyrid, one day.

Meanwhile, take some vibarations and melodies as healing pills.

After infinity, infinity commences yet again."

Amosphère for Echo of Species
22.04.2020
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To know more about Amosphère:
Amosphère is a Paris-based composer, synthesist and multidisciplinary visual artist.
Through diverse pictorial practices, she uses a minimalist vocabulary of geometric shapes and fictional concrete poetries to explore the sonority of non-material illusions. By using combinations between analog synthesizers, contemporary sound technologies and artificial intelligence, the music scores ---- collected datas and visual objects, are translated into sounds, installations and performances.

You can support the artist here: 
https://amo-sphere.bandcamp.com/
https://33-33.co/representation/amosphere/

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Echo of Species 12 - Amosphère

Echo of Species 13 - Felicity Mangan

@felicity-mangan
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This episode - ‘Marsh’aphonics - features selected tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Knud Viktor, Olli Aarni, Vlad Dobrovolski, Heidrun Schramm, Native Instrument (@native-instrument), Marja Ahti (@marjaahti), Andrew Pekler (@pekler), Lag Os (@lag-os), HMOT (@hmotology) and Tomoko Sauvage(@tomokosauvage).

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Felicity Mangan's words:
"Wetlands such as small ponds, marshlands, swamps and lakes provide habitats for many of the
world's existing, new and endangered aquatic and terrestrial species.
During the recent lockdown situation l have taken long bike rides inside of the Berlin borders
discovering many tracks along canals, rivers and wetlands inhibiting an amazing biodiversity of
lush flora and fauna during the spring season. I also recently discovered that the name Berlin
roots from previous West Slavic inhabitants berl-/birl- "swamp".
Inspired by these local biotopic explorations I have created a mix featuring my own music that is
influenced and populated by wetland species while including many other artists I have
discovered who have created music inspired by aquatic phenomena or the voices of species
that habitat these wet landscapes."
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To know more about Felicity Mangan:
Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany since 2008. In different situations such as solo performance, collaborative projects with other musicians or installation, Felicity plays her found native Australian wildlife archive and other field recordings, either through a stereophonic system or often via hand-made speakers made with piezo transducers and found objects – exploring the timbre and forms of found and self-recorded animal voices while mimicking biophonic patterns to create minimal quasi-bioacoustic environments. 

Felicity has recently played in collaborative projects Native Instrument (Shelter Press, Entr’acte) presenting electro-acoustic bug beats with vocalist Stine Janvin Joh and Plants and Animalia with Christina Ehrl Shirley – grafting live and pre-recorded drones produced by remnants of plant biochemistry together with modified animal voices. Felicity has also released a solo publication on Longform Editions titled Stereo’frog’ic, a play on the word stereophonic –  presenting a sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects and other ‘vocal’ animals wavering about in a stereo field. Felicity has presented projects in many different settings from galleries, gardens, clubs and festivals throughout Europe. Including National Gallery Denmark, Technosphärenklänge CTM/HKW and Sonic Act Academy 2020.

You can support the artist here: 
www.felicitymangan.org

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Echo of Species 13 - Felicity Mangan

Echo of Species 14 - Giuseppe Cordaro

@giuseppe_cordaro
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This episode - "Le tour du monde in 51 minutes" - is an original musical piece created for Echo of Species using field recordings from all the world, and lights & colors of the spirit.

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Giuseppe Cordaro's words:
"When this podcast was created, 413.15 ppm (parts per million) of CO2 was dancing in the air, today the figure is 418.12 ppm CO2. I made this sound journey taking you by the hand, accompanying you into the world of devacian, a floating sea where sounds are also light and color. If we want to continue listening to the sounds of our world and leave our children a better future, we must reverse the trend and respect Mother Earth: more plants, more health".
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To know more about Giuseppe Cordaro:
An ecologist and sound artist, he has created a series of audiovisual projects for events, multimedia installations and mapping (A fragmented World w/ Sara Tirelli and Elena Mazzi presented at the Quadriennale 2017 in Rome, Audioscan Milano w/ Giorgio Sancristoforo at Palazzo Reale 2010, Audioscan Notturno Teatro Valli Reggio Emilia 2010). Always attentive to sound research, he specialized in the sound landscape and phonosphere with great attention to sound ecology. He has collaborated with several artists including Robert Lippok, Simon Scott, Ben Frost, Giorgio Sancristoforo Corrado Nuccini, Giuseppe La Spada, Quayola, and Apparati Effimeri. He has recently released his latest work for the British label Kesh (UK) by Simon Scott (Slowdive). 

You can support the artist here: 
https://giuseppecordaro.bandcamp.com/

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

Echo of Species 14 - Giuseppe Cordaro

Echo of Species 15 - Ariel Kalma

@ariel-kalma
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This episode features the below tracks by Ariel Kalma:

1. Mystery Om  from ‘Birds Dreaming’ 
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/birds-dreaming
2. Birds Alap  from ‘Birds Dreaming’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/birds-dreaming
3. Ditty Forest  from ‘Osmose III’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/osmose-iii-2
4. Les Voix de la Foret  from ‘Osmose III’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/osmose-iii-2
5. Forest Mystics  from ‘Live In Concert Europe 2018’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-concert-europe-2018 
6. Helios Dream  from ‘In My Dreams’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-dreams 
7. Sonhos Passaros   from ‘Birds Dreaming’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/birds-dreaming
8. Canada Dream Forest  from ‘Birds Dreaming’
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/album/birds-dreaming
9. Saxo Planetariel from ‘Osmose’

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Ariel Kalma's words:
"I live near a forest in Australia. Birds are important to me and I tune my music to compose some of my pieces. It is vital to preserve nature! Here is my contribution to Echo of Species".
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To know more about Ariel Kalma:
Ariel Kalma is inspired by rhythms, melodies and grooves from various cultures, ambient atmospheres, modal music, native instruments and nature. Ariel likes to experiment with music: mix traditional sounds with modern arrangements, use electronica and special effects, play circular breathing on winds and didgeridoo, create original sounds from synthesizers. Ariel blends styles of music to produce original compositions with flavours of his own. His songs touch deep feelings of the search for simple truth in a metaphorical poetry.

During his study of Electronics, Computer Science, Music and Art at Paris University, Ariel Kalma was also performing with several bands and touring the world, visiting Asia, Africa, Japan, Canada and Europe, always listening to, sometimes playing with, the music and the people: different scales, colours of sound, timing and rhythms.

https://ariel-kalma.com  

You can support the artist here: 
https://ariel-kalma.bandcamp.com/ + https://www.youtube.com/user/ArielKalmaVids 

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

Echo of Species 15 - Ariel Kalma

Echo of Species ~ The ecological collapse through artists' eyes. From a wide spectrum of classical, ambient, psychedelic & electronic music styles.
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The contemporary environmental issues we face - pollution, global warming, extinction of species, etc. - are insufficiently expressed and conceptualised in the musical world, despite the fact that many artists have strong ecological convictions. Echo of Species is a place where they will take turns, each contributing a chapter to this deep listening story, by grasping climate urgency and proposing their artistic vision, without boundaries. A podcast series where each episode features an artist's unique selection of music interlaced with spoken words about the ecological collapse, from speeches, archives or recordings. The musical atmosphere can broadly be defined as experimental, from a wide spectrum of classical, ambient, psychedelic & electronic music styles. The artists help to craft the line-up and participate in the curation process. Like a relay race, they will pass the baton of conscience onto the next composer, thereby adding an element of unknown to the collection. The musician takes on the role of a trans-disciplinary agent of change, touching upon the feelings and emotions of the listener. Our aim is to ease the emotional bond between ourselves and nature. Through the eyes of these artists and their aesthetic response to the irreversible sixth mass extinction, we aspire to drive the catalyst that may prick our collective consciousness. Let's dive into this creative emulation and question ourselves. The clock is ticking.

1 episode published = 1 tree planted 🌳 (Project Povos da Floresta)

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