Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

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La philosophie du langage

From the album Luft, released on 08/08/2019 on Eilean Rec.

For full album:
https://michaelcutting.bandcamp.com/album/luft

Seeking Safe Harbour

The Gilded Lily

"Liquid Talk" is taken from "Entering and Emerging" the second full-length album by Melbourne based composer and musician Zoltan Fecso. Following up his debut ‘Shimmer Raga’ on Hush Hush Records, Zoltan expands on his distinctive pointillist compositions, continuing to explore simplicity and limitation.

Releases January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Zoltan Fecso 
Field recordings from Aulus-les-Bains, Saman and Toulouse, France 
Mastering by Lawrence English 
Artwork by Sotiris Gonis

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/entering-and-emerging

Zoltan Fecso - Liquid Talk

This has been a stormy fall, and in Finland has been already 40 days with stormy wind speeds as the average is 27 a year.  A small, but intense low pressure passed over creating wind speeds up to 31,3 m/s in the gusts and 27 m/s as average. 

I couldn’t resist recording this storm just in our backyard as it was evident when I opened the front door in the morning that this wind is going to make damage. (The picture)

Recording storms creates mostly undefined white noise that’s not very pleasant to listen. But it seems, that when the wind gets hard enough, there occurs (more or less) strange noise patterns with regular shapes that can make it sound interesting. 

In situ I could hear cars passing and chainsaws running.  I hope there’s a bit of this weird noise left in this recording, at least when listening with headphones.

And yes, when the gusts were as strongest, two trees come down. One pine on the roof of our neighbors sauna building 6.50 and an other one with the tree trunk breaking 8.28 

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, nothing done in edit, 24/48 flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Storm in my Backyard - 19/11/2020 - Makholma Finland

Akatiti アカチチ

沖縄の言葉で明け方 Dawn in Okinawan word


薄暗い空 ゆっくりと日の光が差してくる
心もとない不安な気持ちも消えてゆく
朝の始まりを喜ぶたくさんの小さな命
静かな心地よい希望
そうだったそうだった
ひとりじゃなかった忘れてた
わたしはここにいるよ
わたしはここにいて気持ちがいいよ
息を吸い
息を吐く


The sunlight slowly shines the dim sky
My uneasy, kind of sad feelings disappear
Lots of little lives begin to rejoice in the beginning of the morning
Quiet comfortable hope
It was so I wasn't alone I forgot
I'm here
I feel good here
Inhale
Exhale

Akatiti/アカチチ

It was back in February 2012 that Michel contacted me to say he had sent me an mp3 "with a funny melody". "I am just wondering if you can play that. Exactly with the same tuning", he said. I had a listen and thought "You must be joking", as what I was presented with appeared to have no fixed notes nor conventional tuning, and sounded almost impossible to play. (I learnt later that the synthesized tune he had sent me was a melodic tracking - via software - of the musical pitches inherent in the voice of a man talking, recorded in Ghana by his friend Mark Dingemanse from the Radboud University). I put the strange sounding melody on repeat so that I could listen to it again and again, and by playing along continuously with it I eventually found the required notes on the trombone. After a week I could play the whole thing. And that was 2012. More recently, I found myself thinking, "Whatever happened to that tune". I had done a lot of work on it, and it seemed to have disappeared with no resulting composition appearing. So, I searched through my archives, found mine and Michel's original recordings, and played around with them until I had the beginnings of something coherent. At this point I contacted Michel, and he performed his usual magic, and eight years later we have our composition! Over the years Michel and I have occasionally swapped musical ideas, and our 'B-side' is the result of another such exchange, from a recording a year earlier.   (Robert Jarvis, Faversham, December, 2020)


This single is a download only.

An Agreement Of Sorts

An Agreement of Sorts

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Robert Jarvis & Michel Banabila: An Agreement Of Sorts

Night Foundation - Hold That Thought

Rain falling on the branches of a dead mopane tree in the Namib desert. Recorded with Sony PCM D10 and a pair of Lom mikroUsi microphones taped to the dry branches. Read about my epedition to Namibia at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/namibia-sound-recording-2020

Chromatic Rain

Soft sand being blown over a hard crust of sand on a dune in the Namib desert. Read about my expedition to Namibia at https://mindful-audio.com/blog/namibia-sound-recording-2020

Skeleton Coast - Sand Dune In Moderate Wind

SF117 Sampler

Award winning sound recordist, audio director and expedition leader - Dune: Part Two | Mufasa: The Lion King | Horizon Forbidden West | Wordscapes

Chromatic Rain

George Vlad