It's half past seven in the evening. The color of the sun is turning golden but it is still hot. It is 26 degrees outside. There are no boat owners or passengers in the harbor. There is one small building in the port where a ticket seller sits despite the fact that the last ferry of the day to Piirissaare departed half an hour ago. The water of the lake sings against the ferry's landing bridge. There are swallows nesting right under the bridge and motor boats can be heard from the lake

The sound of Lake Peipsi in Laaksaare boat harbor. Field recording. Estonia June 30, 2021

In the morning of the last day of July, as I was about to enter the main door of an aged care nursing  home, I had to stop and step aside to make way respectfully for a trolley bearing a deceased person draped completely with deep red cloth. I do not know who they were - their name, gender, nationality, story... The body was borne into a nondescript white van.

Later, that evening, while editing and composing some field recordings for a quite different work, this particular conjunction of layers happened to align  itself, as if of its own accord, and I recalled my meeting with an unseen deceased body, neatly draped in deep red cloth, earlier that day. For that person, for every such person, I wanted to offer this sound-parable, as an aesthetic gesture of respect, mourning, but also of celebration, a confident casting and sowing of thoughts towards the all-encompassing horizon of infinity.

"Among the Seven Wise Women, one woman said, 'Sisters, you and I should not go to scenic parks to partake of worldly entertainments... Instead, let's go together to enjoy the charnel grounds.' The other women said, 'That place is full of decaying corpses. What is such a place good for?' The first woman said, 'Sisters, just go. Very good things are there.' When they arrived in the forest, the woman pointed to a corpse and said to the other women, 'The corpse is here; where has the person gone?' The women witnessed the truth and realized the way." (Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku, translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, Boston: Wisdom Publications 2004, p. 120)

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2021.08.01 Parable the Second: Passage. (Παραβολὴ ἡ Δεύτερη• Πέρασμα.)

viridian city.

the late sonic adventure.
work in progress

 the journey of a light that comes to you © 2022 by Nadìr is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

the journey of a light that comes to you

An indulgently lengthy excerpt, but reflective of taking the time, under a searing morning sun, amidst flies, to sit still and listen to the intimate psychophysical presence of these very curious yet nervously cautious calves, as they approached nearer and nearer. In particular, the sounds of their breath. Wondering about their existence, and their destiny.

2022.03.13 Calves. Morning. Coorong. Early Autumn.

Cerulean Ascent's remake of a Funking Duck's track
https://soundcloud.com/funking-duck/the-electoral-reform-commission-of-the-kingdom-of-poland-voted-against-the-council-led-by-that-dick

Cerulean Ascent and Funking Duck: Polish Democracy

Concert crépusculaire de Bombina bombina (Sonneur à ventre de feu) dans une roselière mosellane, le 11/05/2022 (espèce introduite, découverte en 2009).
En plus de cet amphibien dont le chant sature l'espace sonore dans les graves, les autres espèces composant ce paysage sont notamment : Rougegorge familier, Grive musicienne, Merle noir, Râle d'eau, Gallinule poule d'eau, Troglodyte mignon, Grenouille commune (P. kl. esculentus), Grillon champêtre et Courtilière commune.
Malgré l'ambiance naturellement fournie, la pollution sonore arrive à s'immiscer ponctuellement (motos, avions).
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Dusk chorus of Bombina bombina (European fire-bellied toad) on 11/05/2022, in a Reed bed, in North-Eastern France (Moselle), where the species has been introduced (discovered in 2009). The other species composing this soundscape include: European Robin, Song Thrush, Common Blackbird, Water Rail, Eurasian Moorhen, Eurasian Wren, Green Frog (P. kl. esculentus), Eurasian Field Cricket and European Mole Cricket. Despite the naturally provided atmosphere, noise pollution is audible at times (motorcycles, planes).

Batrachophonie exotique en Lorraine

This piece features a remarkably deep, detailed "Woodland Piano".

A Midsummer Night's Dream (pianobook version)

The jungles of the Amazon are calm and still on a hot afternoon. There's a piercing insect chorus - frogs call occasionally - every now and then a bird chirps half-heartedly. Long version at https://youtu.be/l-v3GNgPR78

Lazy afternoon in the Amazon rainforest

More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet

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Evo Evol Evolve

The Euclidean Chromaticon | Evo Evol Evolve - disquiet0580

It's dawn on a very still Lake Öjesjön in mid April. Just a few days earlier the lake was completely frozen, but in the past few days Spring has well and truly come alive. In this recording we hear Canada and Grey Lag Geese, Common Cranes, Goldeneye and other wetland birds on the lake. From the trees on the shore of the lake we hear a Redwing accompanied by other woodland birds. From time to time we hear Black Grouse displaying in the distance. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 ii + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
15.04.2023

Dawn At Öjesjön Lake - Västmanland, Sweden

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Exploring hearing, the hearable, and the hearer, as an event, a mode, and a dimension of Βeing (τὸ εἶναι).

2021.08.01 Parable the Second: Passage. (Παραβολὴ ἡ Δεύτερη• Πέρασμα.)

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