Field Recordings by Jeff Gburek

originally intended to be a collab- fell through...
4th and final track from "Four Abstracts" EP burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/four-abstracts
photo-Michael Ryan- Cathedral Wash Canyon-Arizona

Abstract Four

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku599-rain-rituals/

rain rituals -
if the gods are here now
to see the paddies

Haiku by Takarai Kikaku

Picture by Ritz

KiKaKuKaKi [ naviarhaiku599 ]

2025-07-27

NLS-2025-07-27

Live improvisation - hardware synths. No AI but pure RHI

In what century?

One falls above

Underground Walk

levetatha

Ghartedsa

original track composed by
Marco Lucchi : acoustic guitar and programming

with
Garrett Fisher : oboe
Geoff Warren : flute
Roberto Corsini : electric guitar

(live recording, Carpi 2010)

*

reimagined by 
Antonio de Braga : drums and electronics

featuring
Henrik Meierkord : cello

Bandcamp

Marco Lucchi & Ensemble - Notturni [finale] reimagined by Antonio de Braga (feat. Henrik Meierkord)

CHAN TY

Inchicore Dublin Warehouse

Recordings from May 17 evening hours and May 18 morning hours in Bray first mix in Dublin (at Anseo, live & at Parnell St), second mix Dundalk May 25. Thanks to Marta Lukaszewicz, Aonghus McEvoy, Helen Marie, Fergal Cunningham.

Impressions Of Bray, 2017

SZYSZKA CLEANSING

"Two Cities" is an album of spoken-word, site-specific field recordings, & acousmatic sound, embracing themes of ecology, personal location, isolation, community and the liquidity of modernity, in all it's elusive forms. Ilaria Boffa lives in Padova, Italia and Jeff Gburek in Poznan, Polska. They contemplate together and apart the waters rising and receding in the wake of civilisation, the sound of living and non-living beings, disruptions and ambiguities of this anthropocene.

"Acqua Alta"

Embedded in this track is the voice of Ilaria Boffa speaking on two occasions. The first are phrases commemorating the language of Zygmunt Bauman (the sociologist, born in Poznan) and the concept of Liquid Modernity while the second moment takes us on her journey to Venice amidst the floods in November where she recites a spoken poem called "The Two Cities" (text below) which, in her own words, "deals with a profound sense of absence and distance, the acceptance of a painful looming scenario that echoes from a remote past. Sinking, drowning becomes simultaneously a very private and universal condition, a reflection on the global eco-dynamics currently shared by living and non-living beings."

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This compositions features texts and field recordings made by Ilaria Boffa in Venice recomposed, reconfigured and supplemented by Jeff Gburek in the studio and around Poznan, featuring slide guitar, piano, field recordings, radio captures, incidental voices (birds even). Thanks to Kołorking Muzyczny for piano and "the space to think" and Karolina Ossowska (backing vocals/voices on "Acqua Alta" and for inspiration in general).

"The railroad breaks the lagoon and
delivers life every thirty minutes.
Rarely on time.
It was November, that mystic entrance
at the arrivals. Wakes, the hiss, babel
a few interesting exhibitions.

'Nebbia nelle calli'.

Further west, the metropolis
its futurity self-restrained, no design for
earth subsidence.
How distant the strangers strangers *
how brittle their tilting in the cold.
Desolate the two cities.

'Acqua Alta!' they yell, 'acqua alta!'
all through.

And it floods slowly, it covers
each tongue, it salts all apertures
the wounds. Do you feel
the shockwave? Rarefied, penetrating
and reverberating underground.
Stay still. It recedes now.

Quiet the two cities."

-- Ilaria Boffa

Two Cities, Part II, Acqua Alta, (Ilaria Boffa & Jeff Gburek)

a mix of field recordings captured over a week spent at the isolated "wild beach" near the settlement of Irakli in Bulgaria in August of 2019, excerpted from the extended long player version available here: https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/irakli-black-sea-2019
microphones used were DIY hydrophones, DIY piezo-units buried in the sand and the on-board zoom binaural set at 120 degrees.

Irakli Black Sea

Rusałka Ice Mix 1, Jan 3, 2020

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

Poetry, Field recording and the More-Than-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 More-Than-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/

Two Cities, Part II, Acqua Alta, (Ilaria Boffa & Jeff Gburek)

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