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Hollow interior. The whole tree juddering as the wind pulls it back and forth by the branches. Eurasian Wren; Common Chiffchaff; a pair of Common Buzzards over the woodland canopy. New creaks and old creaks; new growth and old growth. Freshly grown spring leaves. A portrait of landscape, from the tree’s own body.

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‘Oak Trunk’ was realised in the composer’s private studio between March and July 2020, with support from the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC).

No AI software of any kind was used to compose ‘Oak Trunk’. All ideas, sounds, audio processes and written notes are the unique creative output of the recordist/composer.

Piece notes revised and updated October 2025.

Image credit:
National Gallery of Art, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

The Habitats Suite — I. Oak Trunk

Elina Waage Mikalsen - guest mix / Land Services / IDA RADIO 20.04.23

1. Elina Waage Mikalsen – Fieldrecordings (Vasstrand)
2. Wimme Saari – Lodderáidaras (Milky Way)
3. Kite – People You Must Look At Me
4. Raven Chacon – MVHS
5. Viktor Bomstad – Strange will
6. Davaajargal Tsaschikher – Urgeljid Urgeljleh Urgeljlel
7. OKI – Oroho Raha (Mokor Mokor) (Sleep, Sleep)
8. Guorga, Niilas Holmberg & Jakop Janssønn – Oaidni
9. Leagus – Livkit
10. Avant Joik – Surveillance jah Fámmuo
11. Laura Ortman – GREY MATTERS
12. Elina Waage Mikalsen – Rođu Govkkit/Glenner i vier
13. Leilehua Lanzilotti – homesick

Guest mix / Land Services / IDA RADIO 20.04.23

New version (in process) of the sound piece "The drop". Nueva version (en proceso) de la pieza sonora "La gota".
Synopsis:
Water is everywhere, is vital for the existence of life in the earth.
Our planet is like a drop moving trough the universe. This piece is a
sound journey from the clouds to the sea told with a simple narrative.
Revealing the cycle of water and how important is for our lives. Many
field recordings made in different places of the world were included
(for example : a river in Norway, the ocean in Tierra del Fuego, a sea
organ in Croatia, the rain in Brazil,  etc).

The drop.2

Natur

Natur 3

Red Deer Coughing

https://callshopradio.com/shows/between-books-bar

Between Books Bar w/ Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow

Recorded in MS with Schoeps mk 4 / Mk 8 inside Radius Mini-alto into Sound Devices MixPre 6 ii

Pan for this MS was set at -+70, which I found was the sweet spot 

Rain on Conservatory Roof Schoeps MS70 - MixPre-7953

C1864_15_1, bongered

From the perspective of a walkabout on Armistice Day in downtown Tacoma, encountering Melissa Chaudhry delivering a speech to a combined crowd of citizens and anti-war veterans. The speech was given both out of great concern for Americans and for the plight of Chaudhry’s detained husband, Zahid, a decorated Army veteran, snatched by ICE just before his citizenship hearing in late August of 2025. Occasionally throughout, Zahid and Melissa’s small children were at her side or in her arms.

Zahid is being held without charges and without medical care at the Northwest Detention Facilty in Tacoma, WA. The Northwest Detention Facility is one of many government contracted operations lining the pockets of private investors and corporations. These operations require significant occupancy and beds filled by detainees to make their money, at which they are succeeding, hand over fist. The GEO Group, the operators and owners of the facility, is generating an estimated $55M in annual revenue for their contract funded by the US government and its taxpayers.

The recording was captured with a simple, utilitarian, binaural rig:
Zoom F3 (96 kHz/32-bit)
Stereo Clippy EM272 XLR mics
Recorder powered by Anker powerbank
Shure earbuds used for monitoring

Recording by A.F. Jones 11/11/25, Tollefson Plaza, Tacoma, WA

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The earlier part of the speech, just out of distance from the mics, reads:

“Friends - good afternoon. My name is Melissa Chaudhry. Salaam aleikum - may peace be with you.

I want to thank the sun, rain, earth, and wind, that gives life to every one of us. I thank the Native people who have lived through genocide and chosen, despite the most unjust and destructive violence, to claim love. I lift my hands to you, I honor you, and I am humbly grateful for your welcome.

I also want to thank the organizers, About Face, Veterans for Peace, and everyone who stands here today - including my mother, who took me to my first protest at the age of eight years old, at the beginning of the Iraq War, holding a huge sign that said “Navy Wife for Peace.” She set me on this path, and I’m forever grateful.

Today is Armistice Day—the day the guns went silent.

A day once meant to honor peace, not power. Healing, not domination.

And yet, somehow, over time, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day—and in that renaming, America changed what it remembered.

We began to honor war more than peace, and uniforms more than humanity.

But today—here, together—we remember both.

We honor our veterans, and we honor the peace they were meant to be fighting for.
We honor those who served in the hope of building a nation worthy of its ideals—liberty, justice, mercy, for all. And we recognize the betrayal of that dedication, as our servicemembers have been turned into pawns of billionaires, serving the interests of the American empire - rather than the ideals of the American republic.

We also remember that half a mile from where we stand, behind concrete walls and barbed wire, sits a veteran who believed in those ideals.

A man who wore this nation’s uniform.

A man who was willing to give his life for the promise of this country.

A man who is now being held in a place worse than federal prison—by the very nation he once swore to defend.

That man is my husband, Zahid Chaudhry. President of the Rachel Corrie Chapter of Veterans for Peace.

In that low, windowless building on the Tacoma tide flats—anonymous among the warehouses and smokestacks—is one of the largest immigration detention centers in the United States.
Inside, over 1500 people are held in conditions that defy decency: no fresh air, no daylight, no meaningful exercise or yard time.”
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Melissa’s speech can be read in its entirety here:
https://tr.ee/oqWkQj7Du7




Armistice Day | Melissa Chaudhry speech at Tollefson Plaza, Tacoma WA 11/11/25

The first release in eight years from vocalist, composer and sound artist Isobel Anderson, 'a voice leaked out from a crack in my throat' revisits the site of the voice physically, socially and internally.

After an initial vocal strain left her unable to sing for several years, Isobel began exploring what it truly means to sing: how a voice forms, what makes it distinctive, and why it moves us.

This composition confronts the currency, power and playfulness of the female voice, inviting the listener to play a game: to notice the ways the voice seduces, unsettles and shapes their experience in real time.

Originally conceived as a collaborative sound installation with ceramicist Carla Wright, the work draws on both artists’ shared interest in gender, voice, community and vessels, and was exhibited as part of Collaborative at County Hall Pottery (Sep–Nov 2025).

Voice: Isobel Anderson

Composed, recorded, produced, mixed, mastered: Isobel Anderson

**Please note: this is a single track release**

a voice leaked out through a crack in my throat

Paseos por la naturaleza. grabaciones de campo intervenidas
Journeys through nature. Intervened field recordings

Álbum de joa cofre

Un rato en el bosque

Trip for Magic on Earth 🕉️

Moving in vibration of music. Living in love. Healing in connection. Art of creating reality. Dance for revolution.


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Fairy on shift 🦄
Spreading light on the dancefloor 💓
Work of magic 🧚


usually in 
Denmark, Aarhus,
Lithuanian villages,
Lisbon, Portugal,
often elsewhere

Mark Ferguson is a wildlife sound recordist. His work draws attention to the sonic nuances of animal behaviour and the fascinating audible relationships between humans, wild species and their shared environments. He is currently based in Northern Ireland, where he spends most of his time documenting the habitats and hidden stories of his native Ulster countryside.

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