01/07/2022 Recorded in Bistra, Ljubljana marsh. Substrate-borne vibrations in a hay-meadow habitat.

Rokov Travnik / Rok's meadow

rainbirds

Underwater Photosynthesis

Polyrythmie et accords de cigales. Enregistrées en fin mai à Malinalco, (Lom Usi Pro).
je ne connais pas le nom précis de l'espèce. Il semblerait que ce sont les mâles qui font ce son en agitant une partie de leur abdomen, pour la reproduction et des questions de territoire, seulement deux mois dans l'année.

Chicharras - Nuit - Malinalco

El conjunto del canto de ranas del Zarzal o trepadoras (Hypsiboas pulchellus) genera una obra sonora natural, acompañada de grillos y el sonido del mar. En su etapa de reproducción su llamado es muy sonoro, metálico y musical, producido por la rápida vibración de las cuerdas vocales que se amplifican por el saco vocal.

//ENG The singing of the Zarzal frogs or climbers (Hypsiboas pulchellus) generates a natural sound work, accompanied by crickets and the sound of the sea. In its reproduction stage, its call is very loud, metallic and musical, produced by the rapid vibration of the vocal cords that are amplified by the vocal sac.

— Grabación de campo realizada en un charcal a orillas de la  Playa Bello Horizonte, Costa Azul, Uruguay  05-04-2023 02:00 AM
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Autor: @damian-alferez
Equipos: Grabadora Portátil ZOOM
Localidad: Playa Bello Horizonte, Costa Azul - Uruguay
Fecha: 5 de Abril del 2023
Hora: 02:00 AM (UTC-3)

Concierto de Ranas del Zarzal - Damián Alférez

vocalisation: howling
other species: I don't know, some nervous passerines
date: 25/12/2021

PFR18843 – Eurasian Wolf, pack, howling – Germany

dub extensible-002

Recorded on four channels nearby laggon under  Svínafellsjökull glacier south of Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.
Two microphones are recording the soundscape above the  glacier lagoon and two hydrophones are placed in the lagoon.
More information will be found at http://fieldrecording.net


Under the glacier lagoon (Aquarian H2n-XLR)

striped marsh frogs/northern banjo frog/aquatic life
wet season in the kroombit mountains, qld
february, 2016

Morning Chorus: Above and below a creek in the Kroombit mountains

Amazonian Dolphins in the Rio Tefé, close to the community of Tauary.
Recorded in September 2017.
Hydrophone Aquarian H2aXLR
Recorder Sound Devices 633
Original sound in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Sound Ref: BR-170919T10

Amazona 2017

Amazonian Dolphins

In 2011 the German ensemble Streichseptett Heiligenberg organised a portrait concert dedicated to my teacher Martin Smolka. He very kindly suggested to them that I, as his student at that time, should also write a piece for them for that occasion.

At the beginning there was a tempting opportunity to write a piece for a very unusual string septet: descant (a kind of high violin), 2 violins, viola, tenor (or high) cello, cello and double bass with an added low string. It was also inspiring that each instrument was made from the wood of a different tree. The tempting aspect for me at that time was mainly the pairing of "usual" with "unusual" instruments.

In those years I was focused on monochromatic instrumentation and was exploring clusters of different densities (writing rather utopian pieces, which are hard to perform due to their instrumentation). Within these clusters some simpler elements are usually hidden, which for me form some of the basic elements of music (a simple triad, or a fragment of a melody) which have to be “excavated”.

In Septett I “hid” simple triads (g-minor, d-minor) which gradually become clearer within the musical process. These chords slowly become slightly out of tune because of the natural harmonics (mostly 7th) which replace the more "well-tuned" pitches. Amongst other things, I also had on my mind the velvety sound of the fujara (a traditional Slovak flute).

In 2015 I rewrote the piece for standard instruments for the Ostrava Days festival. I wanted to use two different kinds of mutes (a standard, and a practice metal mute) and thus divide the ensemble into two slightly different trios (vn-vla-vc) with the unmuted doublebass situated inbetween. But during the rehearsals fascinanting things started to happen: the muted instruments were reluctant to spread the rainbows of different spectra, which clash into each other during the piece, especially in the opening texture. So finally the musicians played without mutes, even in the softest dynamics.

The composition is dedicated to Gérard Grisey, for his enthusiasm for working with unclear roles of individual parameters. However, I must also thank Martin Smolka, both for the wonderful suggestion that I should write this piece, and later for the surprise he gave me by sending to me Bohumil Hrabal's Tender Barbarian at exactly the most decisive moment of composing the piece.

Septett

CONCERTS /
- LES BAINS DOUCHES 
(villefranche de rouergue)
28/07/25

- CASTET (carbone)
28/07/25

- IL TEATRO (bordeaux)
25/07/25

- ELLEFEST (cugand)
21/07/25

- LA LOUTRE PAR LES CORNES 
(faux la montagne)
02/05/25

- BLOCKHAUS DY 10 (nantes)
30/04/25

- VERGER DU PETIT COUBREGNIER
(cugand)
29/04/25

- LE NOUVEAU MAGNOLIA (paris)
27/04/25

- AUTOUR DU GARAGE (paris)
26/04/25

- LA CHEMINEE (bruxelles)
25/04/25

- LABOR FUR KLANG UND RAUM (kiel)
13/04/25

- LE DADA ( Toulouse)
06/03/25

- CAFÉ DU CENTRE (La Fouillade)
16/11/24

-LE NEGRAL (Lugan)
14/09/24

- PARLADISSA (Laguépie)
07/09/24

-Les découvertes de st amancet (St Amancet)
31/08/24

-SILO (Cannes-et-clairan)
24/05/24

-CHAPELLE ST-JACQUES (Villefranche de rouergue)
03/05/24

- LA MAMI (Valesville) 
09/09/23

-SILO (Cannes et Clairan)
02/09/23

- ORANGE
01/09/23

- ATELIERS DU PALAIS (Arles) 
23/08/23

- ATTRACTEUR ETRANGE (Tarn) 
18.08.23

- ABSYNTH (Ciudad de Mexico)
03/06/23

- MAKER SPACE
(Toluca-MX)
18/05/23

- CAFE POMPIER
(Bordeaux)
17/01/23

-LE POINCONEUR
(toulouse)
04/01/23

- BLAJA CREW
(toulouse)
30/11/22

- HOTEL PARTICULER
(ville franche de rouergue)
20/11/22

- LE PATO
(masseube) 01/10/22

- LA BALEINE ARVALUM (quimper) 24/09/22

- CADENCES
(toulouse) 17/09/22

- LE PRESBYTERE
(cardan) 25/08/22

- SANS DETOUR (Gayan) 14/08/22

-LA JARDINADE- 30/07/22

Chicharras - Nuit - Malinalco

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