Sad and frustrating.  When will we learn.

Reminiscent, for me, of Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps'. Something terribly real and truly terrible, portrayed beautifully, poignantly, skillfully, in art. A heartbreaking paradox. Messiaen: "The abyss is Time with its sadness, its weariness. The birds are the opposite to Time; they are our desire for light, for stars, for rainbows, and for jubilant songs."

this is an incredible recording but hard to listen to...

tummelplatz

Tummelplatz 14.12.18

Night in forest. Somebody is skulking in undergrowth and making eerie sounds. At times it feels like a possessed child or even Gollum is lurking in dark forest...

Boreal owl and waves of Peipsi lake in background.

23. May 2020, 1 AM. Peipsiveere, Estonia.

Edit: It is most likely a pine marten. I had another recording with visual contact and the sounds were pretty similar.

Creature of night

For this haiku:

Harvest moon,
And mist creeping
Over the water.

Piano, treated field recording soundscapes and synthesizers by Daniel Diaz, Paris, Friday 26th June 2020.
Voices courtesy of NASA

Poem by Hattori Ransetsu 
Photo by NASA


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/06/24/naviarhaiku338-harvest-moon/
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@naviar-records

The Moon (naviarhaiku338)

Deforestation in Finland has accelerated tremendously in recent years. Most old forests have already been cutted, but also logging growing forests  for the pulp industry is still increasing. When the logging machine comes, the scene is like from a horror movie. Like the sounding too. 

A little piece of old forest that had remain near our home was nearly clear cutted brutally. It took four days to do that, and this recording is from the third day.  A Black Woodpecker cried hearth-breakable during the first day and a Raven pair flew over and over again during all the days of logging. 

This piece is recorded near my bird feeder. The Raven is heard best between 5-6 and from 11.15. The other birds are mostly tits of the woods. Between 9-10.30 a Willow Tit (most likely) is singing weakly it's fall song. In the picture the logging machine is resting for a moment. Enjoy with headphones, thanks!

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, 24/48, +6dB in post, flac)

https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/2020/201023_3.jpg

Jan Eerala Finland

The Final Cut - 15/10/2020 - Makholma Forest

Rejected orchestral piece for a music score (publisher's call), quite naive and straight forward.
Piano, upright bass and flute, full orchestra (string, brass and woodwind experimenting with several orchestral libraries).

Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2020.

Reworked and remixed on Thursday October 22nd 2020 inspired by this haiku:

wind tunnel . . .
a hummingbird fans
the morning glory

poem by kala ramesh
photo by pradeep ghildiyal uIou


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/10/21/naviarhaiku355-wind-tunnel/

Morning Wind -  naviarhaiku355

Visiting an abandoned farm in the outer woods of Luvia village on a rainy and windy day I come upon the windy howl from one really old and big aspen surrounded by younger firs. It was a little before the farmyard, so that the gusts could gather some strength from the more open yard behind. (There’s water dripping and some very small rain, but the sound that sounds like a rain shower in the end of most gusts is not rain, it’s the branches of the firs. I’m not sure if I’ve ever paid attention to this rather distinctive sound before. It was clearly heard against the jet like lower sound from the big aspen and the microphones were placed under one branch.)

I like this recording a lot but due to the loss of quality of the mp3 here the 24/48 flac is downloadable. Though be sure to listen with headphones.

(MKH8020 ab80cm, SD702, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Old Aspen and Firs - 21/11/2020 - Ruusnellinloukko Luvia

A recording of a car journey in the rain with the window open.. Sounds and effects added later to brighten it up!

More on this 466th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [ ] Sound Machine (The Assignment: What sort of sound does your city make?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0466/ 1

Project inspired by a December 2, 2020, tweet from George Wallace:

https://twitter.com/MrGeorgeWallace/status/1334274395938832387 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0466-sound-machine/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Brightening a Dark, Wet, Day (disquiet0466)

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum: Phase Transition.
The Assignment: Record the sound of ice in a glass and make something with it.
https://disquiet.com/0471/

Ice cubes fall into a glass.
Recorded with a Tascam DR-100MKII + built-in mics Uni.
The Tascam is placed vertically on the glass, in contact.
A Pure data patch lets you hear the recording transposed to 3 voices  and brings out their harmonic components by spreading out them over time.
At the beginning we hear the untransposed sound.
This is the same Pure data patch as for:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/3stones-disquiet0441

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum: Phase Transition.
Enregistrer le son d'un glaçon dans un verre et faire quelque chose avec.

https://disquiet.com/0471/

Des glaçons tombent dans un verre.
Enregistrés avec un Tascam DR-100MKII + micros intégrés Uni.
Le Tascam est posé verticalement sur le verre, en contact.
Un patch Pure data fait entendre l'enregistrement transposé sur 3 voix et fait apparaitre ses composantes harmoniques en les déployant dans le temps.
On entends au début le son non transposé.
C'est le même patch que pour:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/3stones-disquiet0441

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More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:
https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0471-phase-transition/

Phase - Transition - Disquiet0471

This winter first ices come one week after years shift, which is nearly two months later than in gone days. After walking one mile along the shoreline of Loukkeennokka Reef, I found some lousy ice flakes quirking with one Whooper Swan calling in the background.

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210109/

(Sennheiser KE4 capsules, MixPre 32/48, +3 dB in post, 24/48 flac)

First Ices - 9/1/2021 -  Loukkeennokka Shore

A small swell pressing water and air between the ground ice and a bigger floe. Free water still, though the weather become colder. Recorded on a beautiful day with no wind and still open sea by Loukkeennokka shore in 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210128/

(Sennheiser KE4 ab50cm, MixPre 32>24, no processing, 24/48 flac)

Snoring Sea Ice - 28/1/2021 - Loukkeennokka Shore

This is a compilation from an over night recording in Kirpakka woods with 15 small cracks in chronological order and as last a bigger bang from one long recording earlier in february.

I had the microphones out in Kirpakka small preservation area over night (from sunset to midday) during the coldest days when temp went down to -20C.  There was practically no sign of life except some road noise and machines from a nearby farm.  Daytime there were a few Crows and two Ravens, one Great Spotted Woodpecker and in early night the distant call of a Tengman's Owl.  

One recording of 18 hours earlier didn't result in any sound of life except a very weak Crow at 11 am. and the big crack in the end of this recording.

There seems to be a great loss of tits and crossbills in Finnish forests today.

But the trees were keeping a good amount of cracks and pops, specially in the early night when the temperature change was as fastest. 

http://www.rupuranta.net/weblog/filet/210215/

(MKH8020ab80cm, MixPre 32>24/48, no processing, +3dB, flac)

Snaps and cracks - 15/2/2021 - Freezing Kirpakka Forest

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.

The Final Cut - 15/10/2020 - Makholma Forest

Jan Eerala

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