Globalization is an illusion: places still tell tales and aver will if you can hear. Thank you for been listenig!

Here are all the sounds I have uploaded on SoundCloud.
Some other sounds to listen on www.felixblume.com
You will find more sounds on http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/

All best 

Felix

ALL THE SOUNDS

CENAP

Muted Mind

Some toads are singing during the night close to Namur, in the countryside. This toads are calling "midwife toad". Some cricket and road in background sometimes.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in july 2014 in Belgium, close to Namur,
Sound Reference: @BEA140722-002

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com/

Midwives toads screaming at night in Belgium's countryside during the summer

Los Gritos de Mexico, soundscape of Mexico City is a 30min sound piece by Félix Blume. 
http://www.felixblume.com/losgritosdemexico
A shorter version is available on Arte Radio. 
https://soundcloud.com/arte-radio-1/los-gritos-de-mexico
Download in Wave 48kHz 24bit on Freesound 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/260680/

This piece receive a special mention during the "Bienal of Radio from Mexico" and has been broadcasted on more than 30 radio, web-radio and on the Radia Network.

RESUME:
Mexico City: more than 20 millions people gathered making noise!
A noisy city for most; I would like to transform it in a sonorous city.

The street sellers make the voices of the polyphonic choir, the small bell from the ice cream seller substitutes the triangle from the orchestra, and the hammering of the protesters on the metallic wall are the percussions.

In Mexico City, people shout to be heard, they shout their rage against the cops, they shout at the ‘lucha libre’ fights, they shout together ¡ Viva Mexico ! to feel united, and during a demonstration they also shout ¡Viva Mexico ! People shout in church, they pray together or alone, whispering in the silent night.

The thunder booms: nobody can shout at the storm, and the rain cleans the silent city.  A solo voice after the rain, and the choir resumes gradually. 

People sing to forget and the shouting starts again, louder, so that the others don´t forget.

The water flows under the city, the forgotten lake is mourning; it remembers when the city was an Island… On the top, it is too noisy, underneath, the water keeps in silence the secrets of the past.

INTENTION
Most of the people in the world live in cities. The daily soundscape is in most of the case a continuous sound of traffic, close or distant. Mexico City has a series of sounds added to the background which make the specificity of the city: the cries and sounds of the street sellers are in most part responsible.
In the past, most cities had their own cries (as some classical music can testify, like ‘Les cris de Paris’ from Janequin). In Mexico City, this tradition has persisted until today,  but the government and general opinion is not in favour of them: street sellers are each time further away from the touristic center, advertising campaigns are done to make them disappear from the subway, and police operations block their access to the streets.

I would like to pay tribute to these Criers through a soundscape of Mexico City, that will become a sonorous memory of a time that sooner than later will disappear.

Los gritos de Mexico

Electric Storm on the top of the mountain Chacaltaya in Bolivia. 
The "static electricity" is going up (and doing interferences in the microphones)until the thunderclap(very close).

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in october 2014 in Bolivia, on the Chacaltaya Mountain,
Sound Reference: @SAM141022-29
Wave, 48khz, 24bit

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Electric storm on the top of the mountain

A saturday afternoon in the small village of Coroico (Yungas, Boliaiva), people are looking and betting on the fight of the roosters...

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 788T recorder with CL8
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in october 2014 in Bolivia, in Coroico
Sound Reference: @SAM141018-008
Wave, 48khz, 24bit

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Cockfight in Coroico, Bolivia

a memory: maybe

Deuxième Guitare

Pollution

want to be absorbed

Free download, if you fancy it.

This one had been sitting on my HD for a while so I decided to finish the mix and let it see the light of day.

Written and produced by Chris Sharp.

(c) 2024 Chris Sharp
(p) 2024 Chris Sharp

Q London

SenSen - Formiga

exits

One of Five tracks from Gravity Fields
new album release here: https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-fields

Between Worlds

Prayer calls for the evening prayer "Maghrib", around 20h45.
Recorded in the city of Istanbul (Turkey), close to the Pera street.

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right
recorded in june 2012
Sound Reference: @VEA120617T42

The same sound is available on Freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/159329/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Prayer calls in Istanbul

A train is passing by in the small town of Wuadley in the Wirikuta Desert (Mexico, State of San Luis Potosi SLP). Train horn and railway vibration at the beginning (recorded by the contact microphone).

Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps mixed with a contact microphone
Microphone CCM41+CCM8
Contact Microphone Aquarian H2aXLR
Sound Devices 744T recorder
MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right and mixed with the Contact Microphone
recorded in july 2012
sound is in 96kHz

Same sound on freesound on
http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/166086/

more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

Please rate the sound or comment it if you like it !

A train is passing by in the Wirikuta Desert (Mexico)

Félix Blume is a sound artist and sound engineer. 
His work is focused on listening, it invites us to live sonic experiences that enable a different perception of the surrounding. He uses sound as a basic material in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. His process is often collaborative, working with communities, using public space as the context within which he explores and presents his works. He is interested in myths and their contemporary interpretation, in human dialogues both with inhabited natural and urban contexts, in what voices can tell beyond words.

Prayer calls in Istanbul

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