I've always loved how field recordings can envelope you, take you to new locations. Right now it seems especially helpful to envision other ways of being, without retreating into fantasy, to plunge into other sound worlds, and Paris is an ideal place.

There's something called Paris Syndrome (apparently experienced largely by tourists from Japan) where the shock of arriving in Paris and finding that it doesn't quite cohere with your expectations causes severe anxiety, hallucinations, and/or dizziness. In this audio journey, I wanted to capture some diverse sides of the Paris experience - not quite Paris syndrome and not quite Amélie - to go beyond the stereotypes and make room for everything from the romantic to the utilitarian.

Bon séjour!

Demi-heure à Paris: Field Recordings

Rana's Wedding

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Fingers on Rough Bark

Tadakichi - Fingers On Rough Bark

Summer starts with the sound of Honeybees in a Echyum flower recorded in my garden and captured with my Zoom H4n, a recording of grasshoppers is also mixed in later in the piece. The resulting recording is fed through Ableton Live's resonators and other elements are added with my modular synthesiser.

SUMMER

This track was composed over a field recording of a dawn chorus recorded on my Zoom H4n and using my modular synthesiser for the main musical elements.

SPRING

Based on field recordings of the wind resonating a power line and a bonfire captured with my Zoom H4n and a binaural recording of myself walking through snow made with the Sennheiser AMBIO smart headset. Musical elements were pulled together from live improvisations on my Modular Synthesiser.

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Tadakichi

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