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New Year Eves 2023 in the countryside of Brazil (Minas Gerais)

Recorded by @sara_lana & Félix Blume
with an ORTF by 2 x CCM4
on a Sound Devices MixPre6 II recorder.
Original recording in 96kHz, 24bit.
GPS: -20.111322, -43.728883

Same sound on Freesound here 
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/667639/

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New Year Eves 2023 in the countryside of Brazil (Minas Gerais)

Coup d'etat

omit

In the softness of the morning, night and sun exchange moans of respect.

Sun Night Moaning

SenSen - The Organist

Randomly generated tone cluster in the Buchla 200 system.

Random Clusters

premiered by and composed for Madison Greenstone and Alexandra Smith.

No additional processing - only acoustic clarinet and metal sheet.

no dogs in space (2022) bass clarinet and metal sheet with transducer

Numbers Station is a track part of the Sonologyst album "Shortwave Spectrum".

The new Sonologyst "sonic documentary" delves into the secretive realm of shortwave transmissions; a chronicle of clandestine shortwave transmissions culled from a span of nearly four decades (1982-2021). These mysterious transmissions - repetitive voices, signals, sound pulses, short pieces of music - were collated and edited to compose the tracks of the main album.

Immersed in an isolating fog of dark ambient, deep drone music and cinematic sound art, it provides an auditory exploration of the ongoing Cold War. Originating from covert radio stations engaged in military and espionage endeavours, the tracks unveil a hidden sonic landscape of strategic communication.

The second disc, in its extensive presentation, provides a deeper immersion into these enigmatic broadcasts. Each recording remains unaltered, accompanied only by a ghostly drone. It offers an unfiltered glimpse into the world of clandestine communication, where words are transmitted beneath the radar and in the shadowy confines of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with graphic design by Abby Helasdottir.

Watch album teaser (YouTube) by Abby Helasdottir: bit.ly/SonologystShortwaveSpectrum

NUMBER STATIONS:

The so-called Number Stations are short-wave radio transmissions, broadcast at various hours of the day, and with variable durations, available on many frequencies and observed and studied for decades by radio amateurs from all over the world. These mysterious transmissions, consisting of voices reading groups of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, or of Morse code signals or sound pulses, are often preceded by transmission start "alerts" consisting of short pieces of music, sequences of letters or scales of notes, cyclically repeated at set times.

Several studies, conducted by telecommunications experts, have concluded that these transmissions were, and still are, used by numerous secret services to transmit short text messages to their undercover agents, operating in other countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, these transmissions suffered a significant decrease, but in recent years other broadcasts have followed the raising of respective new global geopolitical players, and Chinese, Korean and Indian Numbers Stations have been picked up.

Shortwave is cheap, reliable, and, unlike web communications, cannot be intercepted or blocked except in the event of a nuclear explosion. The ideal secret communication system in times of new cold war.

Shortwave Spectrum

Numbers Station

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Field recordings done on site and music composed and arranged by J R House.

200 km above the Arctic Circle, in the magical light from the midnight sun and the northern lights.
-20 degree intermittent snowstorms and blizzard.

I and a team of Aurora scientists led a group of artists into the unknown.Over the following days I made extensive field recordings and time lapse Photography.

Aurora Borealis: Solar Winds

the being/the world (2024)
for Juliet Fraser and Ensemble Musikfabrik

extract recording: scene 5: duo (love)

Juliet Fraser, voice
Sara Cubarsi, viola d'amore
Benjamin Kobler, synth organ
+ MusikFabrik

premiere recording extract from WDR, Köln on 3 March 2024

total piece duration: 1 hour

in loving memory of Amelia Cuni

commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik and Kunststiftung NRW
photograph: Janet Sinica

the being/the world (2024) scene 5 (extract)

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.

New Year Eves 2023 in the countryside of Brazil (Minas Gerais)

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