RESLP038
Releases June 16, 2025
futuraresistenza.bandcamp.com

Environments 12 is a speculative addition to the Environments series (an 11-part field recording series by Irv Teibel from the 1970s), which imagines a cybernetic ecology in which the biosphere, humans, and technology merge through synthetic representations of 'nature'. Created by Machine Listening, it unfolds as a mind-inverting libretto narrated by vocal performers and generative voice clones telling stories of reef lullabies, natural compositions, and large language models for whales and crows. Critically spinning the original Environments series further through balanced conceptualism and irreverent absurdity, Machine Listening's suspension of acoustic realities is deeply perplexing, disorienting and captivating.

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Environments 12, 2025. Stereo LP, 35 mins
Researched, written and produced by: Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern)

Voices: David Chesworth, Jasper Dockray, Jenny Hickinbotham, Roslyn Orlando, Francis Plagne, Catherine Ryan, and their clones.
Graphic design: Stuart Geddes
Clones: Made with ElevenLabs
Mastered by: Joe Talia

This record reimagines and reworks material from the Environments series, which is still available on streaming platforms and in many used record stores.
More information is available at: www.irvteibel.com
Thanks to Jennifer Ballow and the Teibel estate for their ongoing efforts to bring Environments to new audiences.

Thanks to Timothy Lamont for providing the reef sounds used throughout the record.
Thanks to David Chesworth and the estate of Les Gilbert for making their gorilla enclosure recordings available.

Environments 12 was originally commissioned for the exhibition Wild Hope at RMIT University in 2023 and was realised as an 8-channel sound installation.
Thanks to Naomi Stead, Fleur Watson and the team at RMIT Culture.

Many thanks to Frédéric Van de Velde and Futura Resistenza for publishing this work.

RESLP038
Futura Resistenza
Brussels/Rotterdam, 2025

15 Planetary computer

Futura Resistenza is a Brussels-Rotterdam based record label
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