Date: 2011-02-02; Time: 5:00pm; Location: Berlin; Length: 1'00

Crows, Berlin

Date: 2006; Time: -; Location: Berlin; Length: 1'38

Two field recordings of traffic sound from Ackerstraße/Bernauer Straße and from Ackerstraße/Torstraße, Berlin. 

Both recordings are radically changed in duration and in tone pitch. First, traffic sounds are replayed in quick-motion. After 30 seconds, it starts to fade over to traffic sounds in slow-motion. 

These modifications are meant to highlight some rythmical patterns in the "behaviour" of internal combustion engines across the city, on a "macroscopic" as well as on a "microscopic" level. 

At the end you can hear the sound of a German ambulance siren replayed very slowly (at the very end you will hear a short bit in normal pitch). 

Traffic noise, Berlin - time stretch manipulated -

Date: 2013-02-14; Time: 11.43 am; Location: London; Length: 02'38

London, King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, Western ticket hall - Automatic barriers. People checking in: signals, chatter, steps, mechanical sounds from card readers and barriers. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=17491

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-02-14 London, King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, Western ticket hall - Automatic barriers

Date: 2013-06-30; Time: 05.49 pm; Location: Riga; Length: 07'03

Riga, Vērmanes Dārzs - In the Park.

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19812

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

Picture by Wordsthink, http://tinyurl.com/q7jouny

2013-06-30 Riga, Vērmanes Dārzs - In the Park

Date: 2013-09-25; Time: 06.19 pm; Location: Perugia; Length: 06'46

Perugia, Piazza del Duca, Via del Carmine - Children playing in the alleyways, passers-by.

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19815 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-09-25 Perugia, Piazza del Duca, Via del Carmine - Children playing in the alleyways, passers-by

Date: 2013-07-05; Time: 09.42 am; Location: Kallaste; Length: 07'32

Kallaste, Estonia - Market. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19814 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-07-05 Kallaste, market

Date: 2014-08-10; Time: 02.27 pm; Location: Bissingen an der Teck; Length: 05'28

Bissingen an der Teck - Street setting, church bell. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=24508

Bissingen was visited by R. M. Schafer and his team in 1975, in the course of 'Five Village Soundscapes', a research tour through Europe. The Canadian scientists interviewed local people about the sounds of everyday life, they drew sound maps, and they also made several field recordings (for further info on this project see http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/FVS/fvs.html). I knew Bissingen from these recordings only, besides some more recent recordings from Helmi Järviluoma and her colleagues, who visited the same European villages in 2000 (see http://6villages.tamk.fi/). So I was very curious to find out what it sounds like, now. 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2014-08-10 Bissingen an der Teck - Street setting, church bell

Date: 2014-08-12; Time: 04.59 pm; Location: Marseille; Length: 03'44

2014-08-12 Marseille, near Quai Marcel Pagnol - Baignade interdite. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=24512

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2014-08-12 Marseille, near Quai Marcel Pagnol - Baignade interdite

Date: 2014-08-14; Time: 01.39 pm; Location: Château d'Avignon en Camargue; Length: 02'31

Château d'Avignon en Camargue - Ambience 'Le domaine des murmures # 1'. 

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From July, 19th, to Octobre, 19th in 2014, there is a pretty fine sound art exhibiton at the Château d'Avignon en Camargue. Titled 'Le domaine des murmures # 1', several site-specific sound works turn the parc and some of the outbuildings into a pulsating soundscape. Visitors are invited to explore the works of twelve different artists. See http://www.chateaudavignon.fr/exposition/le-domaine-des-murmures-1.html for further information. In this particular recording, you will notice sounds from different works by Julien Clauss, Emma Dusong, Arno Fabre, and Franck Lesbros, the drone of the water pump from the nearby machine hall as well as the sonic contributions of several unidentified crickets, and, last but not least, the total absence of sound from an installation by Emmanuel Lagarrigue in the machine hall. 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2014-08-14 Château d'Avignon en Camargue - Ambience 'Le domaine des murmures # 1'

Date: 2014-08-14; Time: 12.54 pm; Location: Sigale; Length: 05'07

Sigale, Alpes-Maritimes - Two boys playing petanque. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=24532

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2014-08-18 Sigale, Alpes-Maritimes - Two boys playing petanque

Date: 2014-10-11; Time: 11.03 am; Location: Bleilochtalstausee; Length: 04'36

Totenfels - Above Bleilochtalstausee. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=29016

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2014-10-11 Totenfels - Above Bleilochtalstausee

Date: 2014-08-12; Time: 06.30 pm; Location: Amsterdam; Length: 02'32

Amsterdam - Amsterdam Light Festival, 'This is it, be here now' by Tropism.

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=29017

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

Picture by Alfred Marseille, http://www.alfredmarseille.nl/this-is-it-be-here-now

2014-11-30 Amsterdam - Amsterdam Light Festival, 'This is it, be here now' by Tropism

February 5, 2016 marks 100 years since the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, and thus the beginning of Dada. To mark the occasion, Cities and Memory: Dada Sounds applies the techniques and practices of Dada to field recordings from around the world. I also contributed one field recording and its corresponding Dadaist remix …according to Tristan Tzara’s method How to Make a Dadaist Poem. 

Read more about the remix at https://sonicagents.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/cities-and-memory-dada-sounds/ 

Listen to the original recording here: https://soundcloud.com/field-recording/2013-02-14-london-liverpool-street 

Listen to selected Dada Sounds at https://audioboom.com/playlists/1306461-dada-sounds 

Explore even more Dada Sounds at Cities and Memory: http://citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds/ 

How To Make A Dadaist Field Recording?

Date: 2015-06-08; Time: 15.30 pm; Location: Broellin; Length: 02'29

Swallows in the cellar

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33165

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2015-06-08 Broellin - Swallows in the cellar

Date: 2015-06-08; Time: 11.30 am; Location: Broellin; Length: 1'36

Broellin - Tractor pulling aside mowed hay

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33164 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]


2015-06-08 Broellin - Tractor pulling aside mowed hay

Date: 2015-08-30; Time: 06.54 am; Location: Molini di Triora; Length: 04'54

Molini di Triora, Via Case Soprane - In the morning

Listen to this recording in full length at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33175

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2015-08-30 Molini di Triora - In the morning

Date: 2015-08-28; Time: 04.45 pm; Location: Molini di Triora; Length: 2'30

Contact mic attached to a bottle, about 1m submerged. Throwing pebbles into the water. Mono recording. After about 1 minute fading over to a recording with a regular stereo mic, see below. 

Listen to these recordings at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33179

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, contact mic made by Simon Bauer, later Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2015-08-28 San Lorenzo al Mare - At the head of the groyne, under water, then above the surface

Date: 2016-09-11; Time: 10.31 am; Location: Trieste; Length: 01'51

Loose halyards hitting masts in some pretty strong wind blasts at a sailing port in Trieste, recorded on the steps in the quay wall.

Listen to this recording in full length at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33996

[Sony PCM-D100 with Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2016-09-11 Trieste - Halyards hitting masts at a sailing port

Date: 2016-09-10; Time: 06.03 pm; Location: Sistiana Duino Aurisina; Length: 04'27

Local soccer game (Campionale regionale dilettanti, promozione girone B) between Sistiana Duino Aurisina (hosts) and Domio (guests). The game started at 4pm. Domio wins 2:1, no goals during the recording. 

Listen to this recording in full length at aporee ::: maps aporee.org/maps/?loc=33997

[Sony PCM-D100 with Beyerdynamic MCE 82]

2016-09-10 Sistiana Duino Aurisina - End of local soccer game

Date: 10-08-31; Time: 17:08pm; Location: Gdansk; Length: 01'50

Pedestrian traffic light sound device, Gdansk

Date: 10-08-31; Time: 15:30pm; Location: Gdansk; Length: 02'14

Ulica Gdynskich Kosynierow, Gdansk - different sirens

Date: 2011-03-19; Time: 06:21pm; Location: Berlin; Length: 01'34

In front of a Turkish supermarket. 

Badstraße, Berlin - shop keeper shouting, church bells ringing

Date: 2011-05-14; Time: 10:02pm; Location: Münsing; Length: 00'25

Rain in the backyard, Muensing - dripping on engine hood

Date: 2011-05-17; Time: 02:33pm; Location: Münsing; Length: 03'07

Meadow, Münsing - crickets, crows, wind bending the grass

Date: 12-07-25; Time: 03:33pm; Location: Darmstadt-Dieburg; Length: 01'04

R. Murray Schafer interrupts his keynote speech for a game with the audience at The Global Composition 2012 conference (see http://www.the-global-composition-2012.org)

Photo by Katharina Szmidt 

R. Murray Schafer's ear cleaning game at The Global Composition 2012

Date: 2013-01-03; Time: 03:03pm; Location: Nauener Platz, Berlin; Length: 05'19

Urban square Nauener Platz in Berlin was recently remodeled and reconstructed by urban planners and acousticians to improve its ambiance - with special regard to its sonic properties. One of the outcomes of this project is a noise barrier (gabions) reducing traffic noise on the playground.

Following a particular "soundscape approach" Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and her colleagues conducted "soundwalks" and invited local residents to participate in the planning process. In respondance to their requests for pleasant sounds several "audio islands" were installed: visitors of Nauener Platz are supposed to sit down on benches with integrated speakers and to listen to ocean surf or birdsong. In effect these sounds now merge with the traffic noise in the background, thus creating a strange mix of environmental sounds which were formerly antithetic.

For her work at Nauener Platz Schulte-Fortkamp was granted the “European Soundscape Award” in November 2012.

Read more at http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-soundscape-re-modeled/

[ image from preview.tinyurl.com/ask9u6c ]


2013-01-03 Nauener Platz, Berlin - Bench 1 Ocean surf

Date: 2013-01-03; Time: 03:03pm; Location: Nauener Platz, Berlin; Length: 02'05

Urban square Nauener Platz in Berlin was recently remodeled and reconstructed by urban planners and acousticians to improve its ambiance - with special regard to its sonic properties. One of the outcomes of this project is a noise barrier (gabions) reducing traffic noise on the playground.

Following a particular "soundscape approach" Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and her colleagues conducted "soundwalks" and invited local residents to participate in the planning process. In respondance to their requests for pleasant sounds several "audio islands" were installed: visitors of Nauener Platz are supposed to sit down on benches with integrated speakers and to listen to ocean surf or birdsong. In effect these sounds now merge with the traffic noise in the background, thus creating a strange mix of environmental sounds which were formerly antithetic.

Read more at http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-soundscape-re-modeled/

For her work at Nauener Platz Schulte-Fortkamp was granted the “European Soundscape Award” in November 2012.

[ image from preview.tinyurl.com/ask9u6c ]


2013-01-03 Nauener Platz, Berlin - Bench 2 Birdsong

Date: 2013-01-03; Time: 03:03pm; Location: Nauener Platz, Berlin; Length: 02'15

Urban square Nauener Platz in Berlin was recently remodeled and reconstructed by urban planners and acousticians to improve its ambiance - with special regard to its sonic properties. One of the outcomes of this project is a noise barrier (gabions) reducing traffic noise on the playground.

Following a particular "soundscape approach" Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and her colleagues conducted "soundwalks" and invited local residents to participate in the planning process. In respondance to their requests for pleasant sounds several "audio islands" were installed: visitors of Nauener Platz are supposed to sit down on benches with integrated speakers and to listen to ocean surf or birdsong. In effect these sounds now merge with the traffic noise in the background, thus creating a strange mix of environmental sounds which were formerly antithetic.

For her work at Nauener Platz Schulte-Fortkamp was granted the “European Soundscape Award” in November 2012.

Read more at http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-soundscape-re-modeled/

[ image from preview.tinyurl.com/ask9u6c ]


2013-01-03 Nauener Platz, Berlin - Noise Barrier

Date: 2010-08-27; Time: 02:16pm; Location: Łeba, Poland; Length: 01'24

Łeba - playing 'Speed-Hockey' on a rainy day. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=14694 ! 

[I used Olympus LS-11] 

2010-08-27 Łeba, Poland - playing 'Speed-Hockey' on a rainy day

Date: 2012-01-31; Time: 08:00am; Location: Berlin; Length: 01'55

Friedrich-Krause-Ufer, Berlin - Ausländerbehörde (aliens registration office) corridor ambience. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=14687 

[MD recorder with binaural microphones Soundman OKM II AVPOP A3] 

2012-01-31 Berlin - Ausländerbehörde (aliens registration office) corridor ambience

Date: 2012-03-08; Time: 05:00pm; Location: Halle (Saale); Length: 02'18

Burgstraße, Halle (Saale) - cars passing on a cracked road. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=14668 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2012-03-08 Burgstraße Halle (Saale) - cars passing by on a cracked road

Date: 2011-10-17; Time: 11:12am; Location: Hiddensee; Length: 02'08

Hiddensee - waves hitting rocks, stiff breeze. 

[Hi-MD recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82 with windshield and fur] 

2011-10-17 Hiddensee - waves hitting rocks, stiff breeze

Date: 2012-04-26; Time: 11:02am; Location: Berlin; Length: 02'07

Tiergarten, Berlin - lawn sprinklers periodically hitting trees and signs. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=14676 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2012-04-26 Berlin Tiergarten - lawn sprinklers periodically hitting trees

Fritz is a cultural anthropologist studying the sonic environment. He lives in Berlin. 
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