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ɛӀï×ïɾ օƒ  ც𝓁uɛ 𝓁օȶu𝓈

Field Recording

Haiku Fes

KILL SASSY 009

Til (*****)

y yo escucho solo la lluvia 
y solo la lluvia que me entienda 
y tu flor siempre calla en la noche 
y tu flor siempre se cierra en el dìa 
y el aqua me esta mirando 
y el aqua me esta arrastrando 
y tu alma se vuelve en esfera 
y tu mente crece en un circulo 
y al alba yo me convierto en mujer 
y al ocaso me convierto en hombre 
y tu y yo con las manos atadas 
y tu y yo con los ojos perforados 
y la lluvia cae en mi cabeza 
y la lluvia cae en mi cama 
y tus palabras son un cubo 
y tus ideas son cuadrados 
y tu y yo entre los atomos 
y tu y yo en el centro del espejo 
y yo escucho solo al nino 
y yo entiendo solo a la nina 
y el cuarto desaparece 
y la fuente sigue sigue fluyendo 
y ves el oro de la primavera 
y miras el ojo del pajarito 
y yo escucho solo la lluvia 
y solo la lluvia que me entienda 
y yo arribo en aquel monte  
donde se quedan las pesadillas  
de la nina que esta durmiendo

bassæ - e

• 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗣𝗗𝗙 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗹𝗲𝘁 • 

For its third release, forms of minutiae presents ‘possible moistures’ a non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions derived from various aqueous environments and their autochthons. 

This gathering is made of 16 sonic encounters collected by field recordists and sound artists across the world. Artists were invited to submit sounds from marine and aquatic-related events, phenomena, geologies, fauna, flora, geographies, and technologies. From the thawing acoustics of Icelandic and Antarctic glaciers to the non-human voices of Australian wetlands, while meeting sea and river dwellers, the listeners embark on a sonic journey across the globe’s possible moistures. 

All proceeds from this release will be donated to the organisation Atelier Bleu - Centre Permanent d'Initiatives pour l'Environnement de la Côte Provençale to support them in their aim to conserve and protect Posidonia Oceanica seagrass species and to accompany ecological transitions on the Mediterranean coastal lands of the Côte Provençale (France) by encouraging eco-responsible behaviour through education, training and awareness actions. They especially work closely with the region’s youth to raise their environmental awareness by offering workshops and activities to discover the maritime and terrestrial environments: underwater snorkelling trails, guided walks, etc. 

This compilation has been made available to the Atelier Bleu as a resource which they can present to the children as part of their educational workshops. 

> more visual and textual info about each contribution available in the PDF or by clicking on them above. 

> Atelier Bleu: www.cpie-coteprovencale.org  

PDF → texts and pictures by each artist - unless mentioned otherwise
cover picture by stéphane marin 
curated by mathieu bonnafous and pablo diserens 
forms of minutiae — fom03 — 2021

pdf & digital

mathieu bonnafous — le bras du glacier

Javier Marimon - Os Muiños 
V.A - Of Morning and Of Glory [IO.VA001 / IO]

Produced by Javier Marimon
Mastered by Niklas Bühler at Klangstellwerk
Artwork by Polygonia
Released by IO from Munich, Germany
Release Date : December 10th. 2021
Format - Vinyl and Digital

Tremendous long cloud collossuses roll above humanity's heads with an unbelievable speed at the north Australian Gulf of Carpentaria during spring time. This special event is never forgotten by the ones who experienced this huge and very unique spectacle.

Most humans tend to forget where their roots really originate. But once in a while nature comes up with new events like this to remind us where we really come from. Our physical bond with this planet will never break, since we all turn into soil as soon as we leave our bodies.
To intensify our understanding of it, this compilation series looks into several special nature phenomenas and let various artists of different disciplines make an interpretation with their own picture of the phenomena in their individual creative language.

The whole creative concept is based on the principal of the ‚Chinese Whispers‘ game.
So Kwasu Tembo (writer and musician) started the whole process with a lyrical text about this phenomenon which was passed on to four visual artists - Dycide, MTRL, Ohneweil and Polygonia.
Each of them created an artwork based on their synaesthetical impression of Kwasu's words, and after that, were handed to the musicians Foreign Material, Infinity, Javier Marimon and Olorun. These artists crafted four auditive masterpieces arising from their visual impression of the digital designs. Synaesthesia is a very powerful tool to grasp coherences which are not easily explained. It can create inner feelings and associations on the observer‘s side, which are much more accurate than any scientific explanation. 

Javier Marimon (Vilaboa, Spain)
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V.A - Of Morning and Of Glory

Os Muiños

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Javier Marimon - Os Muiños [IO]

Out on Presque Tout: www.presquetout.bandcamp.com

It is a drenched afternoon in Alto Adige as a storm plunges the Eisack Valley in a thick fog. The sky is cadenced by distant thunderbolts and the soundscape swallowed by cold downpours. Sitting on the flank of a mountain, Hotel Briol faces the Dolomites while overlooking the small town of Barbiano. By a window of the hotel, a radio aerial stands in the rain, its rods plucked by drizzling drops. To naked ears only the showers' white noise prevails, yet within the array of metal conductors lies the discreet music of antennas.

Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-6 II
Microphones: a pair of JrF C-series (neutrik) contact microphones

the discreet music of antennas (Barbiano, IT) [Presque Tout, 2022]

forms of minutiae presents 'live at kwia’, a fragment of a recorded electroacoustic performance by field recordist and artist @pablodiserens

→ f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-kwia

Amid winter, on one of the last nights of 2021, a group of people gather in the welcoming womb of a listening bar. Bordered by tiled walls and embraced by a simulated fog, cradled listeners soon forgo outer fluctuations. From a distance, dogs’ barks and bats’ calls reverberate into the space, Pablo Diserens’ concert has begun. What unfolds next is a weaving of biophonic field recordings with hums of blown and stroke glass bottles. The emerging electroacoustic ecoscape oscillates between animal stridulations and Helmholtz resonances. Wavering wind pulses and mirroring clangs intertwine with ultrasonic drones bringing the audience into oneiric realms. Ants, grasshoppers, and crickets infuse the room with vespertine warmth. Windows ooze with condensation. Winter seems far, as if morphed into a balmy summer night. A new landscape materializes, birthed by the set of frequencies at play. Buccal air gently throbs in and out of the glass vessels in glistening gestures. Pablo blows into their empty bottles one last time before handing the stage to a sizzling underwater mixture of rain drops and insectean accents. 

The recorded fragment stops here, yet, that night, the formed sonic window into this temporary landscape pursued its course. The auditory encounters that followed now only exist in the hazy memories of wintertide listeners. 

~ 

Pablo Diserens (they/she) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. In solidarity with a wounded planet, their practice invites people to attune to the present moment in an attempt at rethinking caring strategies and our relationship with the world and its biotic communities. → www.pablodiserens.studio 

• 

performed live by pablo diserens for 'weich', a queer ambient event series at kwia (berlin) in december 2021. 

photograph and design by pablo diserens 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
duration — 34'22'' 
tape production by tapedub (berlin) 
performing photograph by Elisa Cucinelli 
published by forms of minutiae — fom04 — 2022

cassette & digital

pablo diserens — live at kwia [fom04]

Live Session #1 SOM / Eugene Nx (test mix

Bruit de Tourteau

Alpheidae is a family of caridean snapping shrimp characterized by having asymmetrical claws, the larger of which is typically capable of producing a loud snapping sound. Other common names of these species include pistol shrimp or alpheid shrimp.

Crevette Claqueuse

Ejigayehu "GIGI"  Shibabaw  - Gela

Environmental music concert, as part of the 'Freshwater Listening' weekend in central Victoria, Nov 2018. 

Music is the state of listening and attention we find ourselves in - both performers and audience - during a performance. The usual attributes of music - melodies, lyrics, rhythms, a song, a score - are unnecessary in sharing a collective experience of deep listening and aesthetic engagement.

This improvised concert featured recordings of local aquatic insects and frogs, live mixed by Leah Barclay. Acclaimed sound artist Ros Bandt (who initiated the event) played her marvellous Tarhu and Greek Lyre, and Vicki Hallett her clarinet. Ros passed additional instruments and sound-making items around the audience, so it was an inclusive and spontaneous affair. Local poet Berni Janssen responded by reading short excerpts from her work, while someone angled a small harp aeolian fashion in the occasional breeze to get its strings singing. The centrepiece was one of Ros's sonic water sculptures, which dripped and splashed throughout, trickles of water ringing in musical ways off metal dishes. Meanwhile, the local magpies carolled, weebill and pardalote song drifted down from the treetops, dogs barked, planes flew overhead and community life went on around us.

Sound recording by Andrew Skeoch

Freshwater Listening Concert, Fryerstown, 2018-11-18

Une Jeune Fillette x Jul-Tchikita

Composé et interprété par Paul Gosset et Dorian Vallet-Oheix 
Mixé par Paul Gosset avec l'aide d'Armand Lesecq 
Masterisé et dupliqué sur K7 par Matthieu Fuentes 
Conception graphique réalisée par Mélanie Cot, Paul Gosset et Dorian Vallet-Oheix 
Imprimé en risographie par Mélanie Cot 
Merci à Félix Vanderdonckt, Mélanie Cot et Jan Carlotti pour leurs retours précieux

01. Plein air

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

Carmen Villain - "Dissolving Edges"

https://f-o-m.bandcamp.com

publishing platform for sonic ecologies and experimental music.

artists are invited to produce sound topographies that point to specific (or imagined) environments.

co-runned & curated by @pablodiserens & @mathieu-bonnafous

> demos: we encourage submissions by women, trans, non-binary and BIPOC artists.