Bathysphere is about exploring the deep and discovering treasures.. Beyond the depths of water, or the depths of sound, this journey may reflect other metaphors of our existence: the inner self, the soul, the hidden universe… or any depth we wish to explore and submerse to, through listening.
The composition is based on recordings of water, combined and transformed: a river, a cave, a waterfall. The idea came from an underwater recording/performance, which was used as the basic material: while swimming in river waters on the mountains of Epirus, I thought of recording the experience of submersion through an air container, like a little “submarine” carrying my ears below the water. For this purpose I constructed a glass case, waterproof , placed a handheld recorder inside and experimented with the sound effects produced by drifting the device below water surface, or by moving it in and out of the water. At a later stage, I visited a cave and a waterfall on the island of Corfu, where I recorded different sounds: water dripping into the reverberant cave, and granular noise produced by the intense flux of the waterfall. At the stage of composition I chose the basic recordings to combine, and simultaneously brought together the inspirational experiences and memories of the spaces in which the recordings were made, and created a musical environment of the deep... This work was created as part of the Erasmus+ programme "the soundscape we live in" in 2019.

Apostolos Loufopoulos studied music at the Ionian University, Greece (Music Degree) and at City University, London (PhD in Music). His work is mainly focused on the composition of electroacoustic music and nature, but also in the inter -contextual approach to music and the convergence of musical genres. His music has been performed internationally in renown festivals of contemporary music (such as ICMC, Synthese, L’Espace Du Son and others) and has received a number of awards at international competitions such as Αrs Electronica (Austria), Bourges (France), Noroit (France), Metamorphoses (Belgium), Space of Sound (Belgium), Franco Evangelisti (Italy), Musica Nova (Czech Republic). Discography includes collections by INA-GRM, Musiques & Recherches, Ionian University, CyberArts, Touch Records and a personal release (CD-baby). His scores have been published by S. Zerboni (Milano) and Just Flutes (London). At a research level, he has participated in international programmes related to the study of the natural environment (Pythagoras, optic-acoustic ecology), at a post doctora level, materializing essays and papers on the artistic exploration and utilizarion of the natural world. He has been organizing member for national and international conferences and festivals on contemporary music and technology (ICMC, Days of Electroacoustic Music, conference on acoustic ecology, audiovisual arts festival and others). Since 2014 he is Assistant Professor at the Ionian University, Department of Audio & Visual Arts. He has also taught at the TEI of Ionian Islands (2006-2014) and the TEI of Epirus. He is a founding member of HELMCA (Greek Union of Composers of Electroacoustic Music) and the Greek Society for Acoustic Ecology. In parallel, he is music producer and director at Studio RED (Athens), specializing in the areas of recording, sampling orchestration and mixing, on various musical styles. 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5Pfg1dOiOnz6hSVfs918g,       https://soundcloud.com/apostolosloufopoulos https://ionio.academia.edu/ApostolosLoufopoulo, https://ionio.academia.edu/ApostolosLoufopoulos

Apostolos Loufopoulos - Bathysphere (2019)

Thunderstorm in Amazonia, Ecuado, a small selection from a longer recording.

Ecuador Thunderstorm Sample

Ecuador Thunderstorm

In Hydroelectric Power, witness the power of water in this collection of recordings captured at historic hydropower plants and massive concrete dams in the United States.

In the American West, water scarcity and allocation are hot topic issues. Gain access inside a working powerhouse along the Boise River as one of three generators, producing over 1,000–kilowatts of power, crank up from a cold start in advance of the irrigation season. Get hit in the face with spray from Shoshone Falls, a waterfall taller than Niagara Falls, during a high water event. Stand 100 yards downstream from the massive Bonneville Lock and Dam along the Columbia River in Oregon as 3,487 Kgal/sec rush past, generating 624 megawatts of power. Listen to the thunderous sound of Gorge Dam along the Cuyahoga River. Yes, the river that caught fire. This decommissioned 60-foot tall, 400-foot-wide dam has sat idle for over 50 years. Plans are in the works to remove it, thereby freeing up the flow of the snaking river from its headwaters to Lake Erie.

Admittedly, waterfalls and dams recorded up close can sometimes sound a lot like white noise. Yet there are distinctions. In Hydroelectric Power, each sound takes on the character of its environment, making it unique to that space and time.

These recordings, captured in pristine 24-bit/96 kHz quality by field recordist Richard Alan Hannon, will complement your documentary, film and game design needs until, unfortunately, the rivers run dry. Seamless loops have been meticulously crafted from sounds that allow for it. Providing more opportunities to utilize these sounds in your projects.

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The Ludwigswehr is situated on the Isar where it forks into the short Klein Isar. It flows over a hydroelectric weir. The two main sounds are the bass rumble of the water flowing over the weir and the higher sounds of the water turbulences after the weir.

River Isar Sound Map - Landshut Ludwigswehr

This is a recording of a reef. I used an Ambient ASF MKII hydrophone plugged into a Zoom F3 recorder. I´ve mixed three tracks to try and give it some depth - 1 front, two left and right, a little bit behind. The sound of shrimps snapping away and the occasional base burble and scratching sounds make for a lively reef.

Reef hydrophone recording. Culion Island, Palawan, Philippines

Congregants from 21 Lake Providence, Louisiana area Baptist churches gathered under the hot and humid early-morning August skies of Lake Providence in 2015 to be baptized, the culmination of an annual retreat of prayer and fellowship. Dressed in white from head to toe, children and adults gingerly walked down the slick and muddy bank, past poison ivy and bald cypress tree knees, and into awaiting arms of preachers that shouted out Jesus’ name before having their heads dunked in murky dark roast coffee-colored water.

This is an excerpt - just one preacher in this clip - from the 42-minute baptism.

I've attended the event as a photojournalist several times, and every time I go away feeling better than I did on the long and boring drive up to this financially-strapped town with an oxbow lake in the Mississippi Delta.

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Recording note: 2 Line Audio CM3’s housed in a DIY ORTF mount, tracked to a Sony PCM-M10 with a SD Mix-Pre D on the front end.

Lake Providence Baptism 3rd Report 2015

Hello, I'm Richard Alan Hannon, an audio field recordist based in Northeast Ohio. I love searching out and recording unique high-quality soundscapes and sound effects near and far. As a former newspaper photojournalist who concentrated solely on visuals, I find myself smitten by sound in ways I never experienced prior to hitting the record button. Let me share my ear-opening passion with you.

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