Resonant_Space

A meditation on the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.

Fukushima

Noon

Detalle de los sonidos utilizados del banco:
Ocarina con forma de mono
Ocarina con forma de saurio
Sonajero con forma de calabazo
Sonajero con agarradera
Flauta con figura humana
Ocarina Zoomorfa de cocodrilo y ave
Cascabel semi-globular
Sonajero con forma de calabazo
Cascabel periforme con prolongación

Esta propuesta está inspirada en el espíritu indígena, su contacto con la naturaleza y el cosmos y en especial con el poder de transformación y sanación que tenían los chamanes. 
La intención del creador fue realizar una collage sónico que simulara un viaje metafísico, como el de los chamanes.


Alejandro Sauter - Metamorfosis Del Chamán (Original Mix)

1997

8361

Audio track composed for The Migration of Pestilence, a collaborative art installation with visual artists, Ellyn Weiss, Sondra Arkin and Veronica Szalus. The recording was performed live on a modular synthesizer, and includes field recordings done for the composition, as well as public domain samples. The recording explores motifs that include freeze/thaw, water, wind, swarming, displacement of knowledge with faith, distortion of religion, human migration, and formation of petroleum and hydrocarbons.

Migration Of Pestilence I

My latest shot at a "Berlin School" track. It was fun to make.

Raining In Berlin

Here's excerpts of some unique recordings I made with a pair of Aquarian hydrophones. I was walking along the Onkaparinga River close to a fence line boundary when I passed what sounded like a pure wave. I realised this was coming from a fence post resonating from the vibration of fixed wires. I pressed my ear to listen closer. It sounded amazing! 

I didn't have any clamps to fix contact mics to the wire, so I decided to bury a pair of hydrophones at the base of two fenceposts. I positioned them so that they were flush and lightly making contact with the base of the post. Both resonances had fundamental frequencies of approx. 360 Hz, with a partial occuring at approx. 420 Hz when the wind picked up and articulated the wires.

I then decided to explore this further by examining the surrounding fenceposts. Excerpt 2 is one of the initial fenceposts with another fencepost that presented a more complex resonance (423 Hz, 637 Hz, 720 Hz).

Excerpt 3 is another set of fenceposts which were far more subtle in resonance, but prone to perculiar artefacts, which (at this stage) I'm attributing to the wind and movement of sand around the base of the posts.

Excerpt 4 was at a point where the posts produced very complex resonances, and it became apparent that these were not so immediate, but rather, derived from activity occuring 50-100 metres along the wires. (the soft tapping you can hear is raindrops hitting the post, wires and sand.)

Any feedback/insight into these recordings would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, TLR.

Fenceposts and wires resonating, Port Noarlunga - Oct 2018

Experimenting with Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset binaural microphones and the Apogee MetaRecorder iPhone app.

Binaural Honey

Track recorded using only the Recursive Machine analog synthesizer.

Recursive Dream

Stereo field recording of the sound of high tension powerlines that cross the Potomac River between Maryland and Virginia. The electrical drone shifts as wind blows across the towers and the lines. Towards the beginning of the recording a woman rides by on horseback.

Power Lines Across the C&O Canal

LOM geophon recording of trees in the forest. The geophon probe was placed in the trunk of a dead tree that had rotted and collapsed against a living tree. The two trees were rubbing against each other (in a totally non-sexual way) as the winds blew through them.

Trees in the Forest

Resonant_Space, aka Barry Schmetter is a Washington DC-based artist creating ambient and experimental electronic music using modular synthesizers and field recordings. He also creates sound and video installations, and video art.

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