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

Certain sounds evoke memories of our childhood homes. By listening to them again, whether by chance or intentionally, we can magically be transported back to that time and place. What those sounds are for you, I’ll let you think over. For me, one sound that is forever engrained into my memory is that of an old vacuum cleaner. Vacuum Cleaners is my attempt at rediscovering the unique sound from the machine I remember from when I was a kid. To my imaginative, adolescent ears, it sounded like a rocket ship, and I couldn't get enough of it.

Included are 35 machines: stick, canister, upright, robot, handheld, hand pump, industrial and central vacuum cleaners, plus antique and modern sweepers, a steam mop, carpet cleaner and shampoo polisher. 

Find out more at www.evocativesound.com

Vacuum Cleaners

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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.

See more images of the baptisms I've covered at www.evocativesound.com

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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