mesmerizing sounds!! thanks for this one jan!

Tämä on aiVAN mieletön nauhoite!! Upeat tekstuurit, outo tila ja käsinkosketeltavan "elävä" maisema.

Commissioned by Brandon Labelle for the Listening Biennial, Berlin
https://listeningbiennial.net/about

“Le chien qui pleure” (the crying dog) is the first collaboration between Mélia Roger and Antoine Chessex. The piece proposes an ominous montage of different human and nonhuman voices creating a detailed sonic situation where the biosphere merged with the technosphere resulting in an uncanny, and possibly fatal encounter.
Piano by Tamriko Kordzaia. 
Mixed by Mélia Roger

LE CHIEN QUI PLEURE - Mélia Roger & Antoine Chessex

Prix Découvertes Pierre Schaeffer 2021

Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot, Birds and wires
4’47, autoproduction, France

Une clôture fraîchement construite entoure un point d’eau dans la campagne lyonnaise. À l’aube, les oiseaux s’y relaient pour boire. Leurs vols les amènent à se poser sur les fils barbelés, laissant naître des résonances métalliques. Cette phonographie révèle par surprise les traces de la musicalité du paysage.

“Une très belle rencontre sonore avec ces oiseaux acteurs musiciens qui conjuguent les volutes et les mélismes de leur vol avec des ponctuations timbrées des cordes de barbelés tendues comme des contrebasses fantomatiques. Avec une grande maîtrise du son, de sa captation, un art subtil du mixage à peine décelable, Mélia Roger et Grégoire Chauvet nous invitent à goûter cette rencontre du vivant avec l’art sonore comme un instant intriguant et appaisant.” (Jean-Loup Graton, membre du jury)

Mélia Roger (*1996) partage son temps entre le cinéma et l’art sonore. Après un master d’ingénieure du son (ENS Louis-Lumière, FR), elle développe depuis une approche artistique de terrain, explorant l’intimité de la voix et du paysage sonore. Entre Paris et Zurich, elle collabore à différents projets autour de l’écoute.

https://meliaroger.com

Grégoire Chauvot (*1992) est passionné d’oiseaux. Diplômé de la Femis, il enregistre le paysage pour construire des histoires, d’abord pour le cinéma et aujourd’hui pour le son seul. Il réalise des prises de son expérimentales à la recherche du beau et de l'inattendu.  

https://soundcloud.com/gchauvot

Le Dinard Podcast Festival #1 leur a consacré un portrait en juillet 2021, à retrouver sur Calaméo https://fr.calameo.com/read/006778443aa1e1d1c5db1

Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot_Birds And Wires

Heterotopia

Speaking Spaces, No. 1: Heterotopia

Bande sonore composée dans le cadre de l'exposition "Traversées", du photographe Éric Bourret, avec la contribution de Nuria Prats Fons, au Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses, du 18 juin au 31 décembre 2022.
https://eric-bourret.com/
http://www.museedemillau.fr/
Tous droits réservés.

Grands Causses - Musée de Millau et des Grands Causses

Field recording based composition by Alëna Korolëva, with voice of Eki Shola.

Recorded in marble quarries near Borba, Portugal, October 2022.

Strange but true fact: mining is responsible for nearly half of the world’s economy. The history of mining around the world can be read in the open scars that have been left when the sought after resource has been extracted. In these wounds, often larger-than-life pits abandoned by humans, new forms of life have gathered. Inverted Mountains is a documentary record of one of these spaces. 

Portugal’s Borba Region is rich in marble, 400 pit mines dot the landscape, all but 50 are abandoned. In 2018 a wall of one of the biggest quarries collapsed and buried five people in a landslide.

This track offers a detailed examination of sunset at the bottom of the pit, four years after the accident. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering a sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural echoing acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living delay, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering here. At the very end, the lonely bird song is echoed by a human voice, calling out in a plaintive wordless cry, the ghost of all those whose lives were lost in this forsaken place.

Inverted Mountains

12 clarinets (4 basses, 2 basset horns, 6 Bflat clarinets)

performed by Jérôme Voisin and his students

13/05/23, Boulogne-Billancourt (FR)

photo ©BChampeaux

Byword (2023) | 12 clarinets

Peaceful crickets, Santa Barbara backyard overnight, 11:30pm-6:30am

Microphones recording sound from inside new ice crumbling and breaking in a small swell. Loukkeennokka, by the West Coast of Finland.

Updating www.baltic.fi

(Sennheiser KE4 omnipair, Sony D100, 24/48, upload as flac)

Inside crumbling new Ice - 13/11/2016 - Loukkeennokka

Radiophonic work in 10 parts, duration - 30min.
Production: Radio Television Serbia - Radio Belgrade 3
Produced partly in Electronic Studio Radio Belgrade using EMS Synthi 100
Premiere: May 30, 11:10PM, Radio Belgrade 3
Artwork (sculpture): Goran Stojčetović - Art Brut Serbia
Photo: Milan Milutinovic - Black Sheep Produkcija
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7bu6HcFKI1k
*Winner of the Serbian most prestigious composition prize "Mokranjac" for 2020

Post-excavation activities (teaser)

Composition made for the split release "Angry Ambient Artists Vol.2" published on Forwind label in 2017. It's a part of a diptych with the piece called Habitat. 

https://boomkat.com/products/angry-ambient-artists-vol-2

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AFTERMATH

Appears on my album "A Dream Unfolds"
https://silentloverecords.bandcamp.com/track/when-all-seems-lost-forlorn-hope

Photo by wonderful Elseh
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

When All Seems Lost  (Forlorn Hope)

Ploughing aural fields in remote North.

Field recordist, bird watcher and a digitized former darkroom rat living in little Makholma village on the West Coast of Finland by the Baltic Sea - 61N 21E

These recordings are done in AB stereo with omnidirectional microphones. With this technique everything in the field will be equally meaningful, even the silence behind the microphones. That's why you should use headphones!

My recordings are merely like a process than individual tracks, and should be considered in the context of my blog-alike site:  www.baltic.fi

For better quality, the tracks are downloadable as 24 bit flac. For commercial use, please take contact.

You will find my videowork here: https://vimeo.com/holotna/videos 

And pics from the places of recordings: https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/


Tekijä on Makholman kalarannan liepeillä majaansa pitävä digitalisoitunut pimiörotta. Intohimona linnut, meri ja vanhat puupurret.

Inside crumbling new Ice - 13/11/2016 - Loukkeennokka

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