A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/GLVb4qVRaCbDXk8y9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Wind Harp, Walltown Crags

From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

Delphine Dora, a prolific recording artist, improviser, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist from France. She performed in various places in France and many places in Europe. Her music is regularly broadcast in international programs in independant radios.
She works mainly with piano, voice, organ, modular synth and field recordings. Her music displays a pure fascination with sound and straddles the lines between improvisation, modern classical, avant folk, song forms, and electro-acoustic music.

Delphine Dora [Reste à la fin, les cendres  Curated by Mari] [31.01.2022]

Air, in both its stillness and its movements, is what compels INVASIVA, the latest release by multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood.

In early 2022, Dorian set out to investigate the root of her anxiety—and how her breathing is both affected by, and complicit to, her mental state—during an artist's residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. Upon touring the campus, she learned of the Whittle House, an abandoned cabin on the grounds that had not been inhabited for many years, set apart by the other nearby, fully-restored cabins. In encountering this site, Dorian connected with the idea of isolation as a catalyst for disrepair. She came to understand how separation could trigger a fear of losing self-awareness and the inability to escape. 
 
INVASIVA is a document of the artist meandering physically and mentally between two forms of confinement: "mandated" and "self-imposed". Like an abandoned house, the composition is filled with a stillness that seems both uninhabited and anticipatory. Gradual shifts in tone build an atmosphere of meditation, and droning notes are sustained like a deeply held breath. And yet, despite the fear of quiet isolation which permeates the piece, INVASIVA swells with slow respiration, revels in the wind, and echoes with gentle reminders of outside life. 
 
The work is one that emulates a contemplative state which is constant threat—and perseveres.  Comprised of the recorded stillness within the Whittle House, and sounds captured in the office lobby of Dorian's breathing specialist in Los Angeles, INVASIVA is a quiet, ethereal triumph over suffocating loneliness. It is a piece that is filled with inhalation, anticipation, reflection,  exhalation, release—it is filled with air.

Invasiva

Dorian Wood - Invasiva (excerpt)

Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

My third album “Mujo” will be released on November 11, 2022. 
The album was made from 2014 to 2022. All together 9 years of time but over 10 years including the research period. 
It is an album of improvisation and recording simultaneously, using non-instrument objects along with the sounds that occur 
from a frosted lake and drifting ice, and recordings made by affecting the environment itself.
This album is comprised of 2 discs. Disc 1 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs above the ice. 
Disc 2 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs below the ice using hydrophones.
This trailer is a mixture of tracks included in disc 1 and disc 2.
Hopefully, you'll be able to hear it through solid mid- and low-range speakers or headphones. And this is just a trailer. It's even more amazing when you listen through the entire sound source.
The CD is full of ideas that you can't get from the download version, and the booklet on page 32 contains untold stories about the making of the album and photos I took between recordings, so I hope you buy the CD and listen to them.

Click here to purchase
https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/mujo-kk039

Recorded and produced during 2014 – 2022  All
recordings and editing by Kazuya Matsumoto
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Kazuya Matsumoto
Artwork design by mondii
Special thanks to Fumi Miyoshi,Yuichiro KONNO

Video editing: Yuichiro KONNO (busstrio)  http://busstrio.com
Photo: Kazuya Matsumoto  http://www.horhythm.com

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2022年11月11日に松本一哉 の 3 枚目となるアルバム「無常」をSPEKK からリリースします。
今作「無常」は、氷をテーマとした作品となっていまして、2014 年から 2022 年までの 9 年 の歳月をかけて制作しました。リサーチを含めると 10 年以上になります。凍結した湖や流氷などが起こす音と共に、本来楽器ではない モノなどを使用し即興で 1 発録音をしたり、色々な仕掛けを用いて環境そのものに働きかけて録音した作品です。 
本作は 2 枚組になっていまして、disc1 は氷上で起こる事との演奏や働きかけを基にし、disc2 はハイドロフォンを使用し氷下で起こっ ていた事との演奏や働きかけを基にした作品構成になっています。
このトレイラーではdisc1とdisc2の音源を混ぜて構成しています。
願わくば、中低域のしっかり鳴るスピーカー、またはヘッドフォンで聴いてもらえたら嬉しいです。そして、これはあくまでもトレイラーです。音源全体を通して聴くともっと凄いです。
CDではダウンロード版では味わえない趣向を凝らしてますし、32ページのブックレットにはアルバム制作の秘話や私が録音の合間に撮影した写真が記載されていますので、ぜひCDを購入してで聴いてほしいです。

Recorded and produced during 2014 – 2022  All
recordings and editing by Kazuya Matsumoto
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Kazuya Matsumoto
Artwork design by mondii
Special thanks to Fumi Miyoshi,Yuichiro KONNO

品番 : KK039
レーベル：SPEKK
発売日：2022年 11月11日
販売価格：4,000円
収録時間：DISC1 68′ 07″ / DISC2 68′ 12″
フォーマット：2CD

170 x 140mm 変形紙ジャケット入りの2枚組CD + 32ページカラーブックレット, 録音時の映像風景動画へのQRコード付。

▶︎説明：http://spekk.net/catalog/mujo.html

▶︎販売ページ：https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/mujo-kk039

▶︎無常リリースツアー開催します。2023年の春頃までに全国各地を周ろうと計画中です。
http://www.horhythm.com/portfolio_item/mujo-tour
※日程確定次第こちらのページに随時アップしていきます。

3rd「無常」トレイラー / third album「Mujo」Trailer (mixture of tracks included in disc 1 and disc 2)

this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Untitled VII

Usually, the Bahnar gong ensemble consists of three bossed gongs and seven to ten flat gongs. Each of the gong players holds and hits a gong tuned to a different pitch, including octaves, repeatedly with variation of timing to create an interlocking pattern. This produces something akin to melody and rhythm. Generally, the players of the flat gongs are responsible for the melody, while those playing the bossed gongs handle the accompaniment. In addition, one ensemble member plays a large, double-sided drum to lay down the basic beat.

In funeral rites, the sound of gongs functions as a bridge connecting the land of the living to the world of the dead, and they play gongs at the house of the deceased all through the night.

This is a excerpt from "Music of the Bahnar People from the Central Highlands of Vietnam" Sublime Frequencies 2016 (SF107)
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576940-music-of-the-bahnar-people-from-the-central-highlands-of-vietnam

Gong Playing in Funeral(Excerpt)

Taken from the album 'Hence' released on LP and Download.

Hence

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke with special guest U-zhaan 'Hence One' (excerpt) (EMEGO 249)

Excerpt taken from Clara de Asís -  Sans Nom Ni Forme
Pilgrim Talk 2020

Clara de Asís - De ce côté-ci (excerpt) [PT39]

Melting ice recorded with stereo pair home made hydrophones, January 2021, with Grégoire Chauvot. 

The sounds you hear are the ice breaking and transforming under the temperature difference. 

Experiment about heat in process...

Melting ice - recorded with home made hydrophones

Eisuke Yanagisawa is a researcher on gong culture, field recordist, and film maker based in Kyoto, Japan.

Gong Playing in Funeral(Excerpt)

Eisuke Yanagisawa

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