Short piece inspired after CP's piece posted earlier today. https://soundcloud.com/cpark/not-richter-but-what

Composed from material made from a quick and dirty max patch.

Short Piece After CP

Three buddhist chants, occurring simultaneously.

This recording was taken standing in the main courtyard of the "Sound of Thunder" monastery complex in Dunhaung, China. On my left, 20 meters away, was a temple of female monks chanting, with the leader amplified. In front of me, about 50 meters away was a smaller temple of female monks chanting, un-amplified. To the right, 35 meters away, was a small group of male monks reciting a chant and playing percussion before raising a banner.  

At one moment, behind a parked car a large collection of fireworks was set off (accidentally?). I turned suddenly to face away from it, and try to avoid overblowing the signal.

Equipment: 
AudioTechnica Bp4025
Zoom H4N 
Post production: compression and equalization.

Recorded on Sept. 23, 2013 at the 雷音寺 (Sound of Thunder) Buddhist Temple, Dunhaung, Gansu, China.

Three Buddhist Chants (Simultaneous) - Dunhaung, China

Recording of a bat flying past me while field recording the ultrasonic partials of the Boston's Orange Line T. Original range of echolocation cries were at 23khz, to make them audible the recording has been transposed down ~5.5 octaves. A train approaching can be heard in the low rumble and long held tones emerging in the recording. A relationship that can be heard hear is as the train approaches and creates more noise, the repetition of the cries from the bat increase. Perhaps showing that train begins to disrupt the bats echolocation.

Equipment: 
Stereo pair DPA 4060s, wide AB 
Sonosax Minir82
Post production: interpreting sample rate, normalization, equalization, noise removal.

Recorded on March 12th, 2014 outside Stony Brook Station T stop, Boston MA 

FS#15: Bat, cometh

Recorded on Sept. 20, 2013 in Xi'an, China, at an outdoor music festival by the Southwestern wall of the ancient city. 

Bp4025->h4n

FS#17: Russian Band soundchecking a cover song, "Pumped Up Kicks", at Xi'an music festival

Another hydrophones recording from Wards Pond, recorded around the same time as FS#16, in July. I have no idea what is causing these clicking sounds, it could be a fault with the DIY hydrophone itself, but seemed to be localized to a very particular spot in the pond. 

FS#18: More Mysteries From The Deep!

FS#19: I promise this is completely acoustic

A man and a woman in pleasant agreement over food.

FS#20: Af·firm·a·tion

Late night sounds from a construction site, microphone placed in a long metal tube near the work zone 

Listen with a sub or headphones with good bass to hear the 46hz fundamental of the tube. 

Construction Through A Len #1

Recording done on March 4th, 2014 at Maudslay State Park, in the Moseley Root Cellar.

Two perspectives mixed and between each other.
DPA 4060s -> Sonosax minir82 and Audio-Technica BP4025 -> Fostex FR-LE2.

Duo Vocal Improvisation At Moseley Root Cellar

FS#21: Organic and Synthetic

https://open.spotify.com/album/4gpjsnpxoWvmJ8QSR5YYZZ

Passage

Passage #2

A buzzy chair, the sound of which is serving for a new microsonic recording. 

FS#22: Ding And A Buzz

Improvisation on guitar testing out the attack detection in a Max patch which will function as providing an accompanying part composed from banks of pre-recorded guitar phrases. The banks will be categorized by event type, such as, plucked, strummed, body hit, slide, etc. 
Already working in the attack detection part of the patch- but as the patch develops the capabilities of detection will widen to include attack, pitch, duration of “event”, and technique . This knowledge will effect a probability chart that determines which prerecorded samples should be triggered.


Improvised Duo for Solo Guitar (Work In Progress)

Download: http://ianbheadley.bandcamp.com/album/burchfield

Composed from field recordings taken between May 12 - 14, Vinalhaven, Maine.

Thanks to Edward Young and Douglas Durant who helped me collect the source material: chucking rocks, vibrating knives, singing glasses, boiling lobsters, rusted-car graveyards, ocean surf, murmuring frogs, corporeal movements of the recorder, board game pieces, straw broom on firewood, drain pipes, wind through trees, and laughter with friends.

****MASTERING NOTE****
This work has been mastered in a style closer to a Classical music recording, as opposed to an Electronica work. 
Adjust playback volume accordingly. 
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Burchfield

FS#23: Woodsanding

In this latest FS I source sound not from my surroundings, but from the World Wide Web. Following the Meteor strike in Russia earlier today, I began collecting audio from all the videos of the strike and attempted to stitch them together to paint a picture of how powerful and frightening the event must have been. 

***Since the original posting, I have updated the file 3 times, including more audio from new clips as they come in***

This is a work in progress. With each new clip of the strike, I will integrate the audio from it into this mix. 

If you have a found a clip, or would like to help out with this project. Please message me!

FS#11: Meteor Strike, Russia, Feb. 15, 2013

1st Prize Winner of the 2011 Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Award. Article here: https://www.musicworks.ca/featured-article/sound-bite/ian-battenfield-headley

Available for streaming and purchase here: 
https://open.spotify.com/album/6BrCNqK5wQ1x0Nlpiikw21

https://ianbheadley.bandcamp.com/album/passages

The work was made available on the CD released with Musicworks Magazine Winter 2012 issue  

Composed in 2009

A collection of pieces, field recordings, and works in progress.

Ian Battenfield Headley works with field recordings and electroacoustic music. His music has been described as, exploring the, ”beautiful dichotomies between organic recordings and processed sounds that imitate each other,” (Weird Ear Records), and “strikingly visceral, three-dimensional” (New Music Box).

Ian Battenfield Headley

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