profound words delivered in such a smooth environment.. it becomes a lament

Needs drums right there ;) Love it, a real beautiful surpass for many reasons that would need privacy. In the future there will no more grass that was eventually allowed to be taken away from us, along with our bees.

enchanting - love how 'taking fieldrecordings' is a part of this poem!

beautiful healing music i want to understand the lyrics more

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Song for the Growing Grass (piano and sax)by Mario Sboarina 
https://soundcloud.com/rosmarinobaia 

Sonopoetry and mixing by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa 

The two poems both titled 'the Language of Sounds' are taken from my poetry collection About Sounds About Us.

'The Language of Sounds

It’s all about grass. The green
and the elegance of wilting away.
We stopped at the meadow
to take a field recording.
Our knees got drenched, 
the spikes rustled. 
Drifters in the valley of pulses.
All the senses enhanced, the fibres strengthened 
for the crickets sang and dandelions danced. 
This land is a resonator, visible
and invisible. We stood there.
Any beat you recognise? 
Hear, how insolent.

The Language of Sounds

And now that we’re drifting away
I realise how uncontrollable it was
this compulsion to give, how visceral to tune. 
Are you in this everywhere with me?
Want is the ecological sound of
a mass extinction.'

Song For The Growing Grass (M.Sboarina&I.Boffa)

Life Goes On

While listening to Electronic Intifada's interview with Abubaker live from Gaza Strip, I've improvised an electro-acoustic piece using field recordings, synthesizer and guitar. Instrumental version (without voice-over but perhaps with another poem when it gets written). 
Keep informed and donate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykklx8iLo_0&ab_channel=TheElectronicIntifada

Unmute The Speaker On Gaza

The Rifles & Garbage Podcast is a series concerned with acoustic ecology and the slow, methodical dismantling of the technocapitalist war machine via poetry, deep listening & sound activism. We go in search of a demilitarized trade zone of spirit & ideas. If we don't find it then we takes steps toward creating it while pushing back against ecocide. Join us. Support via paypal jeff.gburek@gmail Patreon coming soon. Field recordings made by Jeff Gburek. Poems by Mosab Abu Toha & others (full list of all recordings will be posted in a few hours).

Rifles & Garbage Podcast Second Edition

I recited lines of poems compiled into one long poem by Adi Magazine's Editorial team. From works by Hasheemah Afaneh, laila r. makled, Yousef Abu-Salah, Rashid Hussain (translated by Salma Harland), Bassam Jamil (translated by Nicole Mankinen), Rania Lardjane, Hani Albayarie, Summer Awad, Veera Sulaiman, Suzana Sallak, Nama’a Qudah, Michael Jabareen, Alia Yunis, Yara Ghabayen, Aiya Sakr, Edward Salem, Ahmad Mallah, Kat Abdallah, Liane Al Ghusain, Priscilla Wathington, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Farah Alhaddad, Mikhail de Parlaine, Bader Alzaharna, and Fady Joudah.  https://adimagazine.com/issues/17/   Sounds by Jeff Gburek composed from VLF, Shortwave radio captures, mixed with frame drum, synthesizer loops and other field recordings. Cease FIre Yesterday!

Cento for Falasteen

Thoughts on process & reality in the bioacousmatic field-mind. Field recordings from Mecca (via satellite), Sofia, Bulgaria, various locations Poland & Romania (special guest appearance by Phil Mill's Herons. Exploring acoustic ecology, sympoetic polyvocality, geological time factors, composite identity, long-term thinking, deconstruction of empires.  #acoustic #ecology #charlesdarwin #williammacaskill #polinabuchak #fieldrecording

Rifles & Garbage Podcast Third Edition

With You Beside Me

A work that speaks to the illusion of connection (communication) in the age of Social Media and advanced technologies. The work features an excerpt from the poem Giganti Rosse (Red Giants) by Italian sono-poet Ilaria Boffa.     https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa 

"Qualche decade più oltre
ci incontreremo, mi sederò
di fronte a te e ti chiederò di nuovo
conosci il mio nome?'"

"A few decades down the line
we will meet, I will sit down across
from you and I’ll ask once more
do you know my name?'"

The Illusion Of Connection (featuring Ilaria Boffa)

Layered and filtered improvisations on synth and piano.

Planets

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizer and piano

17 aprile 2024

Esatonale [7]

This podcast we go deeper into the otherness. Poems by Tony Brewer, Ilaria Boffa (English & Italiano) and recitation of Osip Mandelstam (English & Russian) by Tim Williams. It's called Rifles & Garbage Podcast in order to draw attention to outrageous military spending, ecological disaster, arms racketeering and the exploitation and/or removal of indigenous populations in favor extraction of raw materials for corporate profit. Stop that. Yikes.
https://buymeacoffee.com/jeff_gburek

Rifles & Garbage Podcast # 5

Poetry, Field recording and the Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

Song For The Growing Grass (M.Sboarina&I.Boffa)

Ilaria Boffa

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