Name: 01. Floating by itisempty
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Description: Inspired by and composed during the days of the Covid lockdown. Finding solace in old recordings, listening to the world, and floating on a moving sphere in space called earth.

El Hierro is the smallest and most distant of the seven main Canary Islands. Exploring its contrasting landscapes and sonic environments, the composition wanders through reverberating deep ravines, the interiors of wind-bent juniper trees, human-animal interactions, energetic trade winds blowing in deserted beaches, and the late-night wails of shearwaters nesting in the cliffs. 

Headphone listening recommended.

Environmental sonic matter recorded in El Hierro Island in May 2021. Composed in El Charco, Puerto Cabras, Fuerteventura, June 2021. Special thanks to El Hierro Island Council.

This piece is part of CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK, a project exploring the sonic ecologies of the Canary Islands, presented as a series of geolocated compositions throughout chosen locations in Washington DC.

HIERRO was premiered during Sound Scene Festival 2021 (26-27 June), organised in collaboration with DC Listening Lounge and the Smithsonian Hirschhorn Museum.

CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK is a permanent public invisible artwork available through the Echoes app from September 2021.

https://pablosanz.info/canariasdcsoundwalk/
http://bit.ly/CanariasDCSoundwalk

CREDITS 
Commissioned and produced by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C. Fieldwork and production assistance: Palma E. Christian Martínez. Additional support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI), the Swedish Arts Grants Committee (Konstnärsnämnden) and the Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC).

HIERRO was a finalist at the Phonurgia Nova Awards 2021 and Grand Prix Nova 2022.

HIERRO

Live electronic set @Acud macht neu club | Wavefront event at 26/1/23 using Elektron Digitakt and VcV Rack

Live Set @Acud macht neu club | Wavefront | 26/1/23

Sound design (and ambient track) for Aspasia Kazeli's animated short film "My Mother, The Sea". The film deals with a loss and the maintened connection with the mother through the sea.

My Mother, The Sea - Sound Design

„In the dream she opens her mouth“ compiles poems by Anna read out aloud, sounds by Colette, plus a few favorite tracks into a set. It’s a collage of found samples, chat conversations, memories, dreams. The poems follow the myth of Medusa (the monster) and take from lived experience of cohabiting with medusa (the dog), exploring the intersection of stone timescales, human and animal relations, considering petrification as both a geological phenomenon and a metaphor for ecological anxiety. 
„Crying is actually really good for the skin 
since the tear fluid contains salicylic acid
If you cry a lot 
you shouldn’t exfoliate
so just keep that in mind“

annauuannauua b2b Colette @ Kiosk Radio 11.10.2024

Taken from 'Country', a 4-track EP ft. Bioni Samp 

Preview & download all tracks: 
https://spirittone.bandcamp.com/album/country-ep

Spirit Tone Recordings : Synthesis, recording & production Bioni Samp : Homemade electronics, modular synthesis 

Tracklist: Take One Take Two Take Three Take Four 

https://bionisamp.wordpress.com

Buy From Spirit Tone

'Country EP' - Spirit Tone Recordings ft. Bioni Samp - Track 4

Mr Reiner

Remixed and mastered by Perdurabo.

Perdurabo - synthesizers
Ian Williams - synthesizers, guitars
John Stanier - drums

Original sound by Battles released Oct 18, 2019. 
©℗ 2019 Warp Records

Battles - Juice B Crypts (Perdurabo Remix)

Inspired by and composed during the days of the Covid lockdown. Finding solace in old recordings, listening to the world, and floating on a moving sphere in space called earth.

01. Floating

itisempty

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