Name: Listening to a Silver Birch by holkham
Duration: 2 min 16 s
Description: the sound of a Silver Birch tree, recorded with a contact mic. I'd like to think this is the sound of the sap rising from trunk to leaves.

What mic acoustic senor are you using if you don't mind me asking

the sound of a Silver Birch tree, recorded with a contact mic. I'd like to think this is the sound of the sap rising from trunk to leaves. 

Listening to a Silver Birch

Featured on the Eilean Rec compilation 'Eilean [53] Various Artists' (2014). You can get it here: eileanrec.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists

Xu - The Man On The Floating Isle - Out on 'Eilean [53] - Various Artists'

Field recording in the Park, 31st August 2015

River Colne - Swans/Cygnet

Forward motion.
Soft lights lay low.
Destination?
Soon you will know.

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night drive neukölln.

Saturday, around 4pm. Listening to a river. 



River in Highwoods Country Park

A small excerpt taken from an overnight recording at Colchester Zoo.

Music for 18 Flamingos

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Oh, My Life

Improv Jam - 5 Feb 2018

On Monday 8th October we toured Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve on the look out for Bats and Badgers.

With the nights drawing in, we explored Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve under cover of darkness and to discover what comes out when the sun goes in.

As part of our The Year project, over the next 12 months we’re running a variety of projects for young people (11-25yrs) at Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve, exploring some of the stories from Essex Wildlife’s oldest nature reserve through photography, filmmaking, animation, video games and more. Thanks to funding from Heritage Lottery Fund its all FREE!

Check out the website to see all the free workshops and get involved www.signals.org.uk

Bats and Badgers at Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve

I have releases on <a href="http://www.expandingrecords.com">Expanding Records</a> and <a href="http://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/electronics/simon-keep.html">Sub Rosa</a>.

Komatta Saru. Expanding Records
"This latest release on the excellent Expanding label comes from Simon Keep, aka Holkham, here exploring the undercurrents of minimal electronic music, sound art and sonic experimentalism. Far from being dry or over-intellectual, "Komatta Saru" retains a rewarding quota of warmth, most often displayed through padded basslines and shy melodies. The tumbling percussive wash of the fabulous "Juv3_1", for instance, sounds like a sleep-deprived, unconscious cousin to Gescom's brilliant "Puzl", while the title track evokes the bell-driven minimalism of Kurt Ralske. Recommended listening."

Interview With the Eggs. Sub Rosa
In confine of silence
The original sound installation consisted of three headphones playing back three different sounds. Through the first set of headphones the sound of snow was heard, close up and sounding like dust or sugar. The second was the sound of a Buddhist monk meditating in an empty room. The last was the sound of volcanic steam seeping out of the sides of a mountain. Alongside the headphones were one thousand origami cranes. The paper was made from photo snapshots of Japan and when made the cranes were hung in ten rows of one hundred. To make one thousand origami cranes is a Japanese symbol of health and longevity. Sound pieces produced from Mini Disc recordings I made in Japan 2002. The audio has been extracted from Hokkaido's volcanic snow-covered landscape. The composition and patterns of the sound are based on the way I heard these sounds; they are inspired by my experience of listening. One of the recordings was made inside a temple. During "Zazen" meditation the sound of an empty room was opening out to me and I was hearing sounds deep into the room. One evening I recorded the sound of an empty midnight landscape, again I was listening into the silence and into the distance. Sounds would ring out from the distance, then a split second later I would hear silent space again.

Silence as poetic system
Walking through snow, my feet crunching on the snow and ice, kicking the snow, sounding like sugar, snow dust. Night-time recording, the silence outside the cabin, red, green and yellow stars, the flashing lights of city. Hearing emptiness, no sound then sound, the imprint of sound in my mind, reverberations of sound in my head and the contemplation of sound. Zazen, the sound of an empty room, listening deep into a room for inherit sound Volcanic eggs, the sound of steam seeping out of a mountainside and poaching eggs.

Listening to a Silver Birch

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