A beautiful recording (although 'screaming' doesn't seem an appropriate description for these wonderful sounds: the main mast may be 'groaning', perhaps, but it resembles the bowing of a double bass, a pleasant sound...).

Sounds like the snoring of a giant made out of steel wires! 

Rebecca Lane, microtonal bass flute
Jon Heilbron, contrabass
Adam Asnan, recording
Samuel Dunscombe, mixing
excerpt from 2021 release on Another Timbre
http://www.anothertimbre.com/catlambmuto.html

Muto Infinitas (2016) Excerpt

vicvellam.bandcamp.com/album/1978-ldn-btn

1996

A windmill in the desert of Arizona is screaming while the wind is coming. Those windmills are used to pump water, in order to give water to cattle or wild animals for hunting. The groaning is produced naturally by the central mast on a piece of wood (part of the windmill).

Recorded during a scouting for an upcoming sound art project in Arizona (to be done in 2022). 
Many thanks to Barry, Mimi and Jay for their help. 

Recorded by a Sound Devices MixPre6
With a MS Schoeps Setup CCM41 + CCM8 in a Zephyx windscreen by Cinela, and a Geofon by LOM (for the metallic sounds)
Sound Ref:  AZ210816T005
Wave, 96kHz
Recorded on 16th of August 2021
GPS: 31.625619, -111.325112
Same sound on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/585061/

Windmill groaning in the desert

Using the Zoom6 XY binaural microphone for the forest ambience and a generic cardiod studio microphone placed upon leaves near the main gate to the anthill. Recorded at about 8:30 am. They do become more active and louder (and aggressive) as the day warms up.

Red Ant Army + Birds near Karczewko 389

Texts by Susan Howe (Debths, 2017)

EXAUDI vocal ensemble — James Weeks, cond.

Cressida Sharp, Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Lucy Goddard (mezzo)
David de Winter, Stephen Jeffes (tenor)
Simon Whiteley (bass)

photo: B.Champeaux

Periscope (2022) | EXAUDI vocal ensemble

(m)Egoless [version]

Homo Machina is the first work composed as part of the suite Der Industriepalast. The piece is deeply influenced by the work of infographic pioneer, Fritz Kahn (1888-1968). Kahn’s most pivotal work was the life-sized poster “Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (Man as Industrial Palace) of 1926, which this piece is based upon.  Such is the inspiration of his work, it has influenced children’s anatomy books, comics (e.g. Numskullz) and even movies (e.g. Fantastic Voyage).

The visual crossover between industrialization and science in Fritz Kahn's artwork demonstrates the means by which human nature became culturally encoded by placing the knowledge of the human anatomy within the context of the modern, industrial world. Kahn produced lots of illustrations that drew a direct functional analogy between human physiology and the operation of modern technologies of the times. Therefore, by illustrating the body as a factory, Kahn was able to relate the body’s complex organic interior to the industrialized space so common in society during  the 1920’s.

As the work is intended as an introduction to a far longer suite, it is intended to provide an overview to the sounds that Kahn may have imagined as he was creating his remarkable graphics. It is therefore structured into 6 sections. 

Introduction: 00:00-00:21
Lungs: 00:22-02:03
Heart: 02:04-04:01
Brain: 04:02-06:05
Digestion: 06:05-07:59
Homo Machina : 07:59-10:07

Homo Machina

AWARDS:

- FIRST PRIZE DESTELLOS FOUNDATION 2019 [Argentina]
- PRIZE FESTIVAL EXHIBITRONIC 2018 [France]
- LAUREAT BANC D'ESSAI 2018 | INA-GRM [France]
- HONORARY MENTION MÉTAMORPHOSES 2018 [Belgium]
- TERESA RAMPAZZI PRIZE | ASSOCIAZIONE DI INFORMATICA MUSICALE ITALIANA | XXII CIM 2018 [Italy]

Astérion

Astérion [2018]

Gris souris - Sophie Delafontaine - 2017

Ardoise noire de brune
Ardoise gris souris
Ardoise bleue de lune
Satin du matin
Velours de la nuit
Ardoise éblouie

extrait de « Ardoises » de Jacques Prévert

Gris souris

if you could wish , would you wish to rise ?
do you see the peaks of helioparticles ?
can you trust this earthly base and
will you fall to your systems ?

was i darkening the universe ?

breathe (remixed by r.s.stropharia) Collab with Chr.Ruoff (Violin) 27.02.2021

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.

Windmill groaning in the desert

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