Bunker Behavior

groovy-trippy-chilly

for soprano, 4 amplified dictaphones, and mixed ensemble

Performed by Nina Guo and Ensemble Modern
text by Alexandra Kleeman
Conducted by Sara Caneva
Recorded by Felix Dreher, mixed by Katherine Balch

waste knot

Grabación de Campo por @mapasonoroap
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Descripción:
“Era una fría mañana de Junio, me encuentro en el parque del centenario, un parque urbano en el plano de Arica, realizando grabaciones de campo para el proyecto “Mapa Sonoro de Arica y Parinacota”, en ese horario se pueden escuchar diversas especies, como Chincoles (Zonotrichia capensis), Picaflores del Norte (rhodopis vesper), Águilas (Generanoaetus melanolecus),  Cernícalos (Falco tinnunculus), Paloma común (Columba livia), Tórtolas Quiguagua (columbina cruziana), entre otras especies. por suerte la costanera que bordea el parque tenía muy poco movimiento y todavía no llegaban las familias, ya que era un domingo de día. Así  que arme el equipo y puse a grabar al micrófono zoom H3vr que realiza grabaciones ambisonic (esfera 360°) y en ese lapso de tiempo de grabación , volaban alrededor entre el follaje de los árboles una colonia de tórtolas.
En la grabación se pueden escuchar tres tipos de vocalizaciones, llamados generales, llamado de atención y vocalización de enfrentamiento entre machos. La vocalización de las tórtolas es muy interesante ya que las personas que no conocen la especie creen que es una “pequeña rana croando”. Mientras grabo el audio solo me queda sentarme, respirar hondo y disfrutar del ambiente."

Equipos: 
Micrófono ambisonic zoom H3vr
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Localidad: Parque del centenario, Región Arica y Parinacota, Ciudad Arica  - Chile 
Fecha: Junio del 2021
Hora: Desde las 9:00 am a 10:00 am (GMT-3)
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Bio: 
Gato del Desierto (gdsf.cl) (Arica, Chile), Manuel M. Figueroa (Gato del Desierto), nacido en la ciudad de Arica, desde muy pequeño gracias a su madre, comienza por el amor a las Artes, las tradiciones y la conservación. Fue fotógrafo de danza y arte, con exposiciones en Chile y Perú. Comienza en el área de sonido el 2016, y el 2020 crea el proyecto de Mapa Sonoro, el año 2021 participa en las transmisiones de Tsonami Radio (Chile), en el 2022 participa en el Festival Sur Aural (Bolivia) y Festival Asimtria (Perú). Actualmente sigue con nuevas fases del mapa sonoro y comienza como investigador sonoro.
 
Links: 
Proyecto Fonografico Mapasonoroap  ist’aña suyu https://gdsf.cl
Instagram: @mapasonoroap @gato_desierto.cl
SoundCloud: @mapasonoroap

Compilación de Vocalizaciones de Tortolita Quiguagua - Columbina cruziana

Pre-order: 13th December 2022
Release date: 20th December 022
Format: Cassette, Digital

They met at the shores of the Licca. Oberlin came from the north, via
Augusta Vindelicorum, Xu from the south via Tridentum. Like travellers
of old on the Via Raetia just with the exception that their luggage
contained some electronic devices, Xu brought a couple of analog
synthesizers and some looper and fx pedals with him, Oberlin had a 9HE
Eurorack together with his sleeping bag on his back and a guitar under
the arm. Nights were quiet, you could hear the river flow and some
nightbirds from the trees. The two travellers did not want to disturb
the silence too much; instead they tried to take up the atmosphere
around them and to resonate it with their electronic and musical means.
So here you can listen to the musical diary of their time spent together
on this ancient roman street... and when the two parted, they knew it
was not forever. They would continue their journey sometime somewhere.

Xu & Oberlin would like to thank Andrea Porcu very much for his support
and for giving them a home on his beautiful label.

Copyright © 2022 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

previews. Xu & Oberlin - Via Raetia | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

Lune captive

Briser la nuit

"Mesh" (2022-2023) for ensemble and live-electronics, here live-performed by the Nadar Ensemble at the Concertgebouw Brugge on 26.3.2023 (Yves Goemaere, perc & live-electronics; Dries Tack, bass clarinet and live-electronics; Thomas Moore, trombone & euphonium; Nico Couck, e-guitar+FX; Pieter Matthynssens, cello; Stefan Prins, live-electronics, Wannes Gonnissen, sound engineer).

Additional samples from Rainforests in Borneo and the Amazon recorded by David Monacchi for "Fragments of Extinction".

Commissioned by Nadar Ensemble & Concertgebouw Brugge. Supported by the Flemish Community.

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Even though "Mesh" can be performed as a stand-alone composition, it was premiered as part of the evening-length project "Der Wanderer 2.0" which I developed together with the Nadar Ensemble in 2023. In the version presented in the context of this project, the audience is wearing headphones on which part of the soundtrack and amplification is played back, while other parts of the soundtrack and amplification are heard through the loud speakers on stage. This splitting allowed for an extensive manipulation of sonic depth, nearness, distance, foreground, background, blanketing and uncovering. The audience was encouraged to play with the headphones, taking them on and off freely, listening to only one ear, etc., creating their own listening experience.
Of course none of this can be replicatd on this live-recording, in which the soundtrack is rendered to stereo.

Mesh (Stefan Prins, 2022-2023)

Strintrio II – friction 
for sringtrio 1995 – 97

The starting-point for friction was an observation of the conditions under which tones are produced on string instruments, which yielded material illuminating these conditions.  Stroke speed, pressure (i.e. the physical conditions) and also the material properties were brought into a relationship with one another, which on the one hand takes on the form of a concise sound progression and on the other hand reflects the fundamental conditions governing this set of instruments.  In the course of the piece this material framework is stressed in both directions: the progression of sounds and the events that constitute it are analysed by means of isolation and maximisation processes through which they undergo qualitative changes.  The analysis is conducted from the point of view of the frictional conditions, and this viewpoint becomes itself the object of compositional analysis by way of the elements that represent it. 
 
Analysing all the material and formal qualities relevant for perception (from the point of view of the frictional conditions) constitutes the attempt to draw upon fundamental conditions for the conception of music.  The goal is to grasp also the conditions of perception- of listening.  It is the attempt to make listening directly thematic: listening as an absolute event, listening as a socially conditioned event and listening as a creative act on the part of the listener.  It seems to me that the direct questioning of these phenomena through the tonal reality of music is the only way to work on renewing the act of listening.

Chambermusic I

Streichtrio II (Friktion) 1995/97 [22:15]

Atempause  UA 15.9.2001 basel sinfonietta, Ltg Muhai Tan Schweizer Rundfunk

Interprété par l'ensemble Intercontemporain et élèves du CNSM le 30/01/2019

direction : Simon Proust

violon : Hae-Sun Kang
alto : Odile Auboin
violoncelle :Eric-Maria Couturier
Contrebasse : Nicolas Crosse
Accordéon : Ambre Vuillermoz
saxophone soprano : Rui Ozawa
clarinette : Martin Adamek
Trompette :Lucas Lipari-Mayer
Percussions : Samuel Favre

Hoquetus Mechanicus (2018-2019) pour ensemble de 9 musiciens et piano mécanique

Working on sound for film and games - here are hammering and drilling sounds of a section of corrugated iron roof being replaced on an old house.

This was recorded on a binaural head which, for most of the time, was place in a room directly under where the work was taking place.

Some friends remove a section of corrugated iron roof on an old house. There was still hay insulation possibly from around 1910 which was removed. 

The recordings were taken on a binaural head, mostly inside in a room beneath where the work was taking place and also some recordings were taken from outside.

Hammering Roof File 02 (binaural)

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

Remote field recordings, unique location sound and experimental audio packs from Iceland

Hammering Roof File 02 (binaural)

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