A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
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Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Wind Harp, Walltown Crags

Faz girar o mundo em marcha lerda.

Navegando em um mar de merda,
Só se herda da merda o mar e
Do mar a merda.
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Vocais - Negro Leo
Voz, baixo fretless & all synths - LL

O poder da merda feat. Negro Leo

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“Echoes Return” is the resurrection. Where the first track mourned what was lost and the second confronted the lies, this final piece becomes a voice of clarity, wisdom, and rebirth. It doesn’t rage, it teaches. It doesn’t only remember, it reclaims.

The three verses rise like pillars of memory, each one unveiling the resilience of Babylon’s legacy. Between them, short bridges act like breaths of prophecy, pauses where the listener is invited to reflect before being drawn deeper. The beat is expansive and cinematic, layering orchestral undertones and steady drums, giving the sense of history waking up and walking again.

The wise outro is the crown: a spoken meditation reminding listeners of the importance of researching and seeking the past with their own eyes, not swallowing the distortions of others. It feels less like a song ending and more like a torch being passed.

This track closes the trilogy not with anger, but with illumination. It’s the sound of ancient kings rising, not to conquer, but to guide the living toward truth.

Echoes Return

sandwich attack

studio edit-
live performance: XTRO, 30.10.20 KUUB, Utrecht. (pres. Gaudeamus)
https://gaudeamus.nl/en/events/kuub-concert-xtro/

marmalade sky (studio edit)

FR010 by @a-y-c-e-b-i-o and @preverywhere

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A journey through rough samples, VHS rips and YouTube cuts led by @a-y-c-e-b-i-o and @preverywhere as a 32-track beat tape.

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• Music Produced by AYCE BIO & PREV
• Master by STEFANO SALVADORE
• Artwork by FUNCLAB COLLECTIVE
• Distributed by 47011 RECORDS
• All Rights Reserved to FUNCLAB RECORDS

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Ven Aqui

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7 Heaven

Headphones are highly recommended. The most appropriate and natural listening levels would be somewhere between 45% to 55% of your sound equipment's volume levels. The quiet beginning gradually grows louder, and then slightly reduces again to a 'status quo'. The recording, as presented here, runs from approximately 05:30 to 07:25: from just before first light to after sunrise.

The first and second dawns of 2021 were very windy, here. But the third dawn was quite calm. I was able to make this uninterrupted recording at one of my favourite local listening places. It's a place I love to go walking; and, just as much, love to sit, to listen, and to look. A place for peace, inspiration, and healing. And, of course, also to record.

The recording begins very quietly, but very gradually increases in volume. I've omitted the first part of the recording, which is even quieter, although it contains a few interesting obscure episodes; and one very vocal nearby koala. I felt that most listeners would be impatient with nine or ten minutes of mainly 'silence', before the birds begin to sing.

Given the quietness of this beginning, there is some general background 'white noise'. In part, this noise is just natural environmental sound; no space with an atmosphere is ever 'absolutely silent'. But it also probably includes some self-noise of the microphones, given that the preamp gain levels were relatively high. Although 'denoising' does mitigate such noise, I find that I am very rarely ever comfortable with the results of 'denoising', even when gently applied.

In all listening, there is always also, necessarily, the presence of the listener. There is no such thing as an act of 'listening' without a 'listener'. There is no such thing as 'sound' without a 'hearer of sound'. Yes, there is something that we may describe as 'purely physical vibration', which can exist, in some sense, quite independently of any particular being that is capable of 'hearing' such 'purely physical vibration' as 'sound'. But, very strictly speaking, such 'purely physical vibration' is absolutely not 'sound', as such, because 'sound', very strictly speaking, is a special kind of perceptual experience, a perceptual phenomenon, that can only be perceived and experienced by a perceiver, an experiencer, who is perceptually and experientially conscious, in an appropriate form and way.

John Cage once sat in a very sophisticated soundproofed anechoic chamber, attempting 'to hear pure silence'. He realised that there can be no such thing as 'hearing pure silence' because, even in 'pure silence', the listener will hear the sound of his or her own listening organism and listening organs. The presence of the listener cannot but be heard by the listener. The presence of the listener means that 'pure silence' is, in principle, impossible.

For me, this applies also to the presence of the microphones and the sound recorder. Like the organic listener, these also produce their own internal physical electromagnetic vibrations, which they cannot but also record, since recording such vibrations is precisely what they have been designed to do. Some are quieter than others; but, in principle, none can ever be 'absolutely silent'. To my mind, microphones and sound recorders are, to recollect Marshall McLuhan, 'extensions of our nervous systems'; and, like our nervous systems, they contribute 'noise' to every act of 'listening' and 'hearing'. Of course, it's preferable that the difference between inevitable intrinsic 'self-noise' and significant 'signal' is high, rather than low. But the fact of the matter remains, that, by fundamental principle, 'noise' and 'signal' cannot be absolutely separated. Analogically, to recall Wittgenstein, there is no such thing as 'a rod without length'. That's a logical contradiction, and a physical contradiction. The same applies here.

2021.01.03 A Quiet Dawn. Summer.

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