Field Recording
Mozambique, Pemba - 1996

Mozambique Fishermen Song

A la tombée du Jour, en Forêt de TourneHem, JS Bach pour les oiseaux auditeurs!

Original recording SD MixPré6II quadriphonie, 4xDPA4022 dans Cinela Albert et Cosi, 96kHz/32b.

JS Bach Prélude Suite N2 Pour Violoncelle_En Forêt_ NyckelHarpa_20220322 19H44

https://youtu.be/5G3Ttdlo3iA

সোনার পাখি 
Shonar Pakhi

Poem by Parvathy Baul & Sanatan Das Baul

Parvathy Baul: vocals, ektārā, ḍugḍugi, nūpur
Lokkhon Das Baul: vocals, dotārā & nūpur
Chayan Biswas: ḍhol
Rabi Biswas & Jhumki Hembram: ālponā paintings
Gilles Monfort: soundscape


সোনার পাখি “Shonar Pakhi” (The Golden Bird), first part composed by Parvathy Baul, second part by Sanatan Das Baul.

The song translates as follow:

“Oh! The golden bird,
Please don't leave the cage at once.
Sit in my heart cage
And sing the name of Hari.
 
Unattainable bird can't be tamed.
It won’t leave the cage either.
 
Oh! The golden bird,
You come and go 
In and out of the cage
Through the days and nights,
Wild bird flies away forever some day.
Oh! the golden bird,
Fakir asks:
‘Did you enter this cage by knowing?
When you fly away where do you go?’

⁂

The bird breathe in the cage of bone
Comes in and goes out twenty one thousand and six hundred times
Through the day and night,
Does anyone knows the secret of the bird? 

One who knows the secret 
He goes beyond the cycle of birth and death
His mind remains fixed in the golden chamber
He moves with the air. 

How does the form becomes formless? 
Does anyone knows its ways?
But if you know for once only 
You will cut the worldly bondages.

My mad father says in your chamber of breath
The man of heart is always engrossed in divine play
Oh mad Sanatan you will surely go across
First surrender yourself, worship the feet of the Guru.”

(Translation by Parvathy Baul)

The birds ‘dawn chorus’ soundscape was recorded by Gilles Monfort near Sanatan Siddhashram (near Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India), in March 2019, with a Nagra VI digital recorder and a Schoeps KFM6 stereo microphone.

https://www.parvathybaul.com

https://www.gillesmonfort.fr

https://www.zamanproduction.com

Cover photograph by Yann Lagoutte 


Excerpt from
BĀUL & ĀLPONĀ
Premiered in April 2019 at Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss
Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac (Paris)

https://quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions-... 

Parvathy Bāul: vocals, ektārā, ḍugḍugi, nūpur, kartāl
Lokkhoṇ Das Bāul: vocals, dotārā & ānandalaharī
Gilles Monfort: vocals, tānpūrā & soundscape
Chayan Biswas: percussions
Rabi Biswas: ālponā paintings & scenography
Jhumki Hembram: ālponā paintings & scenography

Jean-Hervé Vidal: production & scenography
https://www.zamanproduction.com

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Resident stage manager: Benjamin Karamehmedović
Director: Giuseppe De Vecchi
Lighting: Guillaume Tisseyre & Jean-Hervé Vidal
Live sound engineer and sound recordist: Alec Melloul
Sound mixer: Gilles Monfort
Camera operators: Mustapha Seffar, Maude Le Gléau, Julie Terrasson, 
Key grip: Jean-Claude Bono

⁂

Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac

Venue crew:
Christine Drouin
Anne Behr
Benjamin Karamehmedović
Aliénor Caussé
Olivier Orsucci
Pauline Gérard

Shonar Pakhi

Shonar Pakhi | Parvathy Baul, Lokkhon Das Baul & Chayan Biswas (soundscape by Gilles Monfort)

I dont want to check my bank account
Im too scared to check my bank account

Bank Account

During the night in the small village of Ban Na Tin (Krabi Province), after the rain, toads and frogs are happy and singing.

Recorded by an ORTF Setup Schoeps CCM4x2 in a Cinela Windscreen
Recorder Sound Devices 633
Original Recording Wave 96kHz 24bit
GPS: 8.0651833, 98.8099667
Download in Wave on Freesound https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/447540/

Thailand 2018

Toads and frogs during the night in Thailand

Excerpt from Félix Blume new LP, Fog Horns, An evocative field recording of boat horns in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. 

For more info go to: www.discrepant.net

Fog Horns LP

Fog Horns

Félix Blume - Fog Horns LP  (Excerpt)

A lone Grey Wolf howls in the late morning, losing itself to the natural reverb of a glacial valley

Grey Wolves were all but extirpated from Washington early in the last century. They've been on a slow but steady recovery now for decades. While still a species of high concern in the Northwest, occasions of hearing their mournful cries are thankfully becoming more and more common.

This is not without controversy, unfortunately, as ranchers fear their livelihoods will be destroyed and hunters express concern over the competition for game animals. My general feeling is this is good, however. The mass numbers of humanity living in former wolf territory and the introduction of highly destructive and invasive farm and game animals such as cattle, pigs, chickens, bullfrogs, pheasant, etc, have had long-lasting, oft-permanent destructive consequences on our ecological systems. That wolves are able to reclaim some territory on their own despite the historical effort to eliminate them is a testimony to their tenacity as a species.

The challenges are great, though, and humanity does not make it easy for other apex predators to survive in a world we claim as our own to despoil at will. Wolves need help all around North America. To help recovery efforts and the benefits they can provide, consider supporting a conservation effort such as The International Wolf Center https://wolf.org or a sanctuary and rehabilitation center such as Wolf Haven International https://wolfhaven.org. For more information on their spread and recovery in Washington, read this informational pamphlet from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife https://bit.ly/2NvfgXW

image credit: "File:Grey Wolf Portrait.jpg" by Jean Beaufort is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en?ref=openverse.

Lone Wolf Howls

juillet 2020. après une coupure générale de courant sur tout le village. avant la pluie, l'orage s'est installé.

Orage De Rabastens.

All Is Full Of Love

Les meilleures pensées sortent parfois du ventre d'un monstre.
Mais la pensée d'un monstre n'est pas toujours un monstre.
La vérité est partout.
Un penseur , ça ne crée pas de vérité, tout existe déjà.
Un penseur, ce n'est pas un créateur, c'est uniquement un ouvrier de chaîne.
Un ouvrier plus ou moins habile sur la chaîne d'extraction de la vérité.
Si seulement nous n'avions pas tant le culte de la personne.
Le culte du bon ouvrier.

La vérité est partout mais
Nous ne voulons pas nous mettre en relation avec le miracle de la vérité. 
nous ne voulons pas la quintessence de ce qu'elle nous apporte : 
nous voulons aimer des penseurs ou haïr des monstres.
nous ne voulons pas la vérité 
nous voulons aimer ou détester 
papa.
Il y a peu de création mais une quantité immense 
d'ouvriers, de penseurs , de monstres, 
de papas 
qui répètent des pensées déjà existantes.
Ils ne créent pas : ils répètent 
plus ou moins habilement.
Mais toute la vérité existe déjà.
Il y a peu de créations mais beaucoup de pensées répétées, 
puisées dans ce que la vérité offre sans aucune contrepartie.
Répéter, répéter, répéter.
À force de répéter 
à force de ne pas saisir les miracles que la vérité prodigue 
et de choisir d'ergoter sur le nom du papa qui les répètent
nous finirons par régresser.
Et nous régressons déjà .
Si les penseurs ouvriers monstres papas ont tant de pouvoirs sur nous, 
c'est parce que nous collaborons ensemble à spéculer sur leurs noms. 
Nous n'aimons pas la vérité.
Nous préférons aimer ou haïr des noms.
la vérité on s'en fout.
nous voulons aimer ou détester 
papa, le penseur, l'ouvrier, le monstre.
Et papa adore ça , qu'on ergote sur son nom.
Il adore qu'on parle de lui.

La pensée n'appartient à personne. 
Les meilleures sortent parfois du cerveau d'un monstre.
Du cerveau d'un père monstrueux,
du cerveau d'un connard de penseur mais
La pensée d'un monstre n'est pas toujours un monstre.
La vérité est partout.

À quand une pensée née sous X 
une pensée qui n'appartient à personne 
dont personne n'aura plus besoin de revendiquer ou d'haïr le nom de celui qui l'a répété.
Toute la vérité existe déjà.
la pensée n'appartient à personne.

Les écouteurs

texte issu du spectacle Nanette, d'Hannah Gadsby.

Hannah Gadsby

Composer, sound artist, field recordist, multi-instrumentalist and singer.

My work is diverse and expressed through many different genres, media and projects: live performances (electronic music, jazz, rock, classical, early music, free improvisation, vocal polyphony, North Indian classical music...), electroacoustic compositions, phonography, music scores and soundtracks for films, dance and theater plays.

My gurus: 
Floris Nico Bunink (jazz piano)
Jean-Claude Ledoux (natural sciences)
Thierry Thibault and Arnaud Boukhitine (tuba)
Ustads Sayeeduddin Dagar and Wasifuddin Dagar (North Indian ‘dhrupad’ singing)
Allan Wright (singing technique)

As part of bands or under my own name, I performed in many different venues and festivals in more than 20 countries around the world, from Vietnam to Chile, Australia to Costa Rica....

Recent highlights include sound creations commissioned by Festival “En chair et en son” (Paris, 2016), “World sacred music festival of Fès” (Morocco, 2017), "Un autre Orient" (carte blanche to festival "Les Orientales", in "Lieu Unique", Nantes, 2017), "Each morning of the world" (2018 and 2019, web releases), and for the show "Baul & Alpona" with Parvathy Baul (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2019). In 2024, I was awarded the prizes for the best original score and the best sound design in the “French Duck Film Festival” (Paris, Fr.), and the prize for the best original score in the festival “Feel the reel” (Glasgow, UK), for my work in the film “Sleeping Jade”, directed by Jonathan Boissinot.

Worked with Simha Arom, Ugo Boscain, Mico Nissim, Parvathy Baul, Ludwin Bernaténé, Gyohei Zaitsu, Christiane Bopp, Alain Weber, Julie Mondor, Marc Niess, Theater Titanick, Ulik, Fanfare Le SNOB, Ramzi Aburedwan, François Ribac, Solène Cerutti, Moon Pallas, Coup d'Marron, François Morel, and many more...

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Shonar Pakhi | Parvathy Baul, Lokkhon Das Baul & Chayan Biswas (soundscape by Gilles Monfort)

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