Name: Siptamiya - improvisation I by Gizem Şimşek
Duration: 5 min 3 s
Description: bird at the end - eurasian oyster catcher, recorded in Iceland 2025

This song is part of a various artists compilation called "Out of Season" that was released by Theory Therapy on August 6, 2021.

Link to comp: https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season

100% of the proceeds from Out of Season will go to headspace, a national youth mental health foundation that provides early intervention mental health services to 12 to 25-year-olds.

Eora (Sydney) based label Theory Therapy presents Out of Season, a collection of immersive ambient and downtempo recordings inspired by place, environment and the passing seasons. Created across multiple time zones and four continents, the compilation consists of several geographically distant but sonically connected underground artists.

The collection begins in New Zealand. 'downpour', by Aotearoa based producer èvia, is a landscape drawing in sound, an evocation of the elements that blends subtle environmental recordings with cascading electronics and gossamer-like textures. From there, the compilation ventures into more nebulous terrain. The expansive ‘Shaft of Light’ is unlike anything you’ve heard from Cousin and Hugh B before, ‘Tar Bae’ and ‘Journey To Urras’ hover somewhere in the interstice between ambient and club music, and ‘Dementia Flower’ recalls IDM icons Boards of Canada if the Scottish duo were to have placed their uncanny samples front and centre. Even the phosphorescent glow of Salamanda’s ‘Hungry Bone’ feels strangely unfamiliar, its simple melody obscured beneath layers of static and hiss as though you’re listening to a decomposing pop song. The inverse occurs on Slowfoam’s track, where seemingly disconnected patterns slowly coalesce, like watching a cumulus cloud form overhead.

The compilation’s second half is a more ethereal affair: a set of meditative ambient soundscapes shrouded in mystery. Reverberant drones, disembodied vocals and haunting incantations from Alexandra Spence, Babyxxan, Match Fixer and Lisa Lerkenfeldt are meticulous exercises in stillness that seem to exist outside of time. Portland artist Patricia Wolf briefly pulls the album back into orbit; the celestial ‘Morning Light’ opens with a flurry of bird calls taken from the musician’s recent trip to Mount Saint Helens in the Skamania County of Washington. ‘In The Distance (Blood Moon Mix)’ by Sydney’s Marco Vella, closes the compilation, the setting somewhere just past sundown, not far from where it began across the Tasman Sea. It's by far the most Balearic-influenced contribution, a track imbued with a sense of forward movement, hinted at by its title and reflected in the song’s subtle interplay of melody and percussion, which glide effortlessly along.

The 13 tracks that make up Out of Season were made in Sydney, Melbourne, Seoul, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Berlin and New Zealand. We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional custodians of the Country upon which Theory Therapy and Low End Theorists was founded, and recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and future.

Out of Season

Morning Light

babama... 💙
for my father...

you can find it in different platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7SUAYxheic



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Mallards, grey herons, and water rails resting in the Kızılırmak Delta. Sometimes, they are accompanied by songbirds, frogs and insects.

Photography and Artwork: Enis Çakar
October 2024

The Wetland Birds of Kızılırmak Delta, Samsun

Early in the morning, rain falls on Lake Cernek and insects sing. Sometimes mallard ducks dive into the lake through the bushes. 

October 2024
Samsun/Turkey

Rain and Insects at Lake Cernek - Kızılırmak Delta

(English below)
Yemişlerimi Kim Çaldı? Küre Dağları’nda Alakargalar

Gelecek planı yapması ve bir yırtıcı gibi ötüş taklidi ile meşhur alakargalar Küre Dağları’nın derin ormanlarında ortamı ele geçiriyor. Aynı bölgede vahşi hayvanların da yaşadığı gerçeğiyle kendilerini neye karşı hazırlıyorlar? Ses manzarasında, tehlikeli ayak seslerine kulak kesilip diğer kuş türlerini uyardığını ve susturduğunu işitiyoruz. Belki de tüm dertleri kış için sakladıkları tohum ve yemişleri diğer türlerden korumak.

Sonbaharın ortasında alakargaların sosyal davranışlarını dinleyin. 
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Who Stole My Nuts? Eurasian Jays in the Küre Mountains

Known for their future planning skills and impressive predator call mimicry, Eurasian jays dominate the deep forests of the Küre Mountains. With the presence of wild predators in the area, what are they preparing for? In the soundscape, you can hear them responding to ominous footsteps, warning and silencing other bird species. Perhaps their greatest concern is safeguarding the seeds and nuts they've stored for winter from other species.

Listen to the social behaviors of Eurasian jays in mid-autumn.

November 2024
Kastamonu

Yemişlerimi Kim Çaldı? Alakargalar / Who Stole My Nuts? Eurasian Jays

short version
The time is 06:45 in the morning.
27 March 2025

Dawn Chorus in the Early Days of Spring at Hodul, Balikesir

In the silence of the night, the bubo bubo releases its voice into the valley with all its majesty; its depth rivals that of the night itself.

recorded at midnight in Niğde Aladağlar, April 30, 2025

Bubo Bubo (Eagle Owl) Aladaglar, Emli Vadisi

A second meditative recording made at night from within a rock cave at Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island; this one from April 2025, on a very still, calm, full moon night. The first three and a half minutes of this track are recorded from outside the cave, from the granite dome overlooking the ocean. The rest of the track is recorded from inside the cave, with the microphones pointing up towards the curved, scalloped granite ceiling where it merges with the back of the cave. This recording was made with a pair of MKH 8040s in ORTF.

Related recording: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20241212-night-ocean-in-a-cave-remarkable-rocks-kangaroo-island-early-summer

Recorded mindfully and respectfully on land and water which, although not indigenously inhabited for some 4000 years, remains to this day of fundamental cultural, spiritual and historical importance to the mainland Ramindjeri, Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna, and Narangga peoples.

2025.04.13 Ancient Cave and Ancient Ocean.

bird at the end - eurasian oyster catcher, recorded in Iceland 2025

Siptamiya - improvisation I

Guitar, Keyboards, Field recording by Enis Çakar

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Siptamiya - improvisation I

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