A truly important spiritual statement on current situation of Amazonian forest in my country. Hope the message resonates even more here.

A beautiful balance of elements! Thank you!!!

Quantum Spins sounded like a good alertnative sound arts podcast playlist title, at least for starters. I'd been thinking about how to re-present sounds, music, audio, ideas about sonic & vibrational phenomena that I had been listening to or thinking about seriously and now here it is. My aim is to expose listeners to items I've found particularly fertile, inspirational and essential either in that they back up or initialize my own catalytics or genuinely throw a spanner into overly aggregrated or pat systems of how music and information should be organized or presented. This is a depot for highly charged works of art, maybe even a museum but not a venue (I am not seeking submissions nor for what some algorithm deems to be similar nor to have more of the same, not at all). I put here certain works I might have wanted to make if I had had the means or situation to do so and/or things I could never have imagined before. Many thanks to the perhaps yet unwitting (and future unknown) contributors ;)  Leading image from Marta Zapparoli's track is a photo of her recording auroera borealis: photographer Alex Conu.

Quantum Spins (Selected by Jeff Gburek)

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.
Sound design & concept: Klaus Nielsen (https://soundcloud.com/maplepools) and Nikolai Linden-Vörnle (https://soundcloud.com/kamikaze_vildsvin)
Image by Crimson Sound (https://soundcloud.com/crimson-sound-483379629)
Read the full story: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/The_scary_sound_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field

The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field

Posaune & Audiobearbeitung by Wolfram Schurack

Walfram

A new composition for ELKA organ, Bees and Flies processed.

You Are Never Alone But...

This is an Extract from the Premiere of my new solo performance "Interdimensional Generated Space", premiered in October 2022 at Panke Culture in Belin, as a part of the series (Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen) . 

A research-intensive piece focusing on the transcendental phenomenon of the Northern Lights. 
The planned performance uses the implement of self-made recordings from the Northern Lights, in combination with self-made crystal radio, plus light, detectors, and motors, to simulate a technological audio-visual version of Northern Lights in the performance space. “Interdimensional” specifically refers to the movement of energy between modes of perception. One part of this energy come from the composed mixture of “natural cosmic voices”; and another part is coming from the electromagnetic forces generated and captured in real time during the performance. The piece make full use of the contrasts of the invisible processes, to create a new experience of space, time, and human scale. 
This is an attempt to achieve a unique sonic dialogue 
between “Natural” and “Technological” world, a reflection on Nature that is imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age.

This project was kindly supported by Musikfonds & Neu Start Kulture
Photo credit : Alex Conu
Live recordings by : Roy Carroll

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

Between Earth and the Sun, space is not truly empty but is filled with a soup of charged particles called plasma. This plasma comes from the Sun, pumped out in a steady stream called the solar wind and sporadically blasted away in explosive solar eruptions. When this solar plasma strikes Earth, it causes the magnetic field lines and plasma around Earth to vibrate like the plucked strings of a harp, producing ultralow-frequency waves.

In 2007, NASA launched five satellites to fly through Earth’s magnetic “harp” – its magnetosphere – as part of the THEMIS mission (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms). Since then, THEMIS has been gathering a bounty of information about plasma waves across Earth’s magnetosphere. 

The frequencies of the waves THEMIS measures are too low for our ears to hear, however. So a NASA citizen science project called HARP – or Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas – has sped up the waves recorded by THEMIS to convert them to sound waves.

In this clip from February 19-22, 2012, whistle sounds are repeatedly heard over ambient background whooshes and crunches. The whistles change in pitch as a THEMIS spacecraft moves toward and away from Earth on three orbits, with a maximum altitude of about 50,000 miles. These sounds are related to Earth’s magnetic harp, which has longer magnetic strings and lower pitches farther away from Earth. These three orbits happened when the solar wind was blowing past Earth at a speed of about 1,200,000 miles per hour, which is fast even by solar wind standards! There’s often more harp activity during fast solar wind conditions. The solar wind also causes many other types of magnetic vibrations, most of which sound like background whooshes and crunches.

Multiple Passes through the Magnetospheric Harp on February 19-22, 2012

Between Earth and the Sun, space is not truly empty but is filled with a soup of charged particles called plasma. This plasma comes from the Sun, pumped out in a steady stream called the solar wind and sporadically blasted away in explosive solar eruptions. When this solar plasma strikes Earth, it causes the magnetic field lines and plasma around Earth to vibrate like the plucked strings of a harp, producing ultralow-frequency waves.

In 2007, NASA launched five satellites to fly through Earth’s magnetic “harp” – its magnetosphere – as part of the THEMIS mission (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms). Since then, THEMIS has been gathering a bounty of information about plasma waves across Earth’s magnetosphere. 

The frequencies of the waves THEMIS measures are too low for our ears to hear, however. So a NASA citizen science project called HARP – or Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas – has sped up the waves recorded by THEMIS to convert them to sound waves.

In this clip from March 2-5, 2012, whistle sounds are repeatedly heard over ambient background whooshes and crunches. The whistles change in pitch as a THEMIS spacecraft moves toward and away from Earth on three orbits, with a maximum altitude of about 50,000 miles. These sounds are related to Earth’s magnetic harp, which has longer magnetic strings and lower pitches farther away from Earth. These three orbits happened when the solar wind was relatively quiet, but it’s still able to pluck the strings of Earth’s magnetic harp while also causing many other types of magnetic vibrations, most of which sound like background whooshes and crunches.

Multiple Passes through the Magnetospheric Harp on March 2-5, 2012

Cafe Kafka

Frammento contenente due brani (Bambiente, Country Dub) registrato a Sacile PN, il 21 agosto 2005, per l'edizione di quell'anno di "Artistinsieme", bellissima e coloratissima mostra d'arte in strada che si è tenuta nell'ambito della antica Sagra degli Osei, durante la quale l'Orastrana ha suonato ininterrottamente per due giorni. Con Carlo Natali e Thomas Graber ai synth, elettronica, effetti e Mauro Rocchi al basso elettrico.

Unreleased

Bambiente/Country Dub

[unreleased] L'Orastrana - Bambiente/Country Dub (live @ artistinsieme 2005 Sacile PN 2005-08-21)

Eyeball Planet excerpt op 728

Nothing

Inspired by the following haiku written by Konishi Raizan, a famous haiku poet of the Genroku period (1688-1704).
spring dream…
not becoming unhinged
is what’s unbearable

Haiku by Konishi Raizan (https://www.poemofquotes.com/famoushaiku/raizan.php)
Picture by USGS (https://unsplash.com/it/foto/a-red-blue-and-green-fluid-painting-on-a-black-background-hoS3dzgpHzw)
@naviar-records

My Naviar Haiku

Sound notes from an anomalous spring

Sound notes from an anomalous spring (Naviar haiku 596)

VLF & Radio Captures from June 5. Synthesizer and voice added June 11, for the Strawberry Moon and beyond. Partial text follows.
Lillacs few
due to drought
no doubt
this year...
How unscientific...
What an unscience
thing to say:
no doubt.
Plus the massive
excessive
pruning of the tree
plus the drought...
the lilacs 
few this year...
Should I 
stave off speech
until I get
statistical
support
for what I've seen?
lilacs few
this year
unlike the children
dead in Gaza

June 11 Lilacs Few This Year

Questo brano è stato registrato il primo febbraio 2009 durante la performance dell'Orastrana "Il si bemolle dell'avvenir", nell'ambito della rassegna di musica e letteratura "Sil-La-Bo", organizzata dall'ARCI di quella città, che coinvolgeva oltre all'Orastrana anche Antonio Malagrida con Enrico Paolucci e Federico Tiburzi, i Li.B.Ra. con Marco Scarponi e Augusto Amabili, Giulia Elisei con Vanni e Flamì' di Luponair (Radio Erre) e l'immenso Massimo Zamboni.
La poesia è "Arcadia Felix", di Carlo Natali.
Al basso c'è Mauro Rocchi e ai marchingegni elettronici c'è Thomas Graber. 

[unreleased] L'Orastrana - Arcadia Felix (live @ ARCI Recanati MC 2009-02-01)

And beware the weird radio emissions Galileo gathered from Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede.

Beware of Jupiter’s Largest Moon Ganymede

My Body Is The Forest, The Forest Is My Body is a sound track, which accompanies the video project(phot. Jacek Jaca Wisniewsky),  under the same title, shot in the endangered zone of Bialowieza Forest.
This project searches to understand better the interrelation between the body and the forest through the
similarities which connect both organisms and to make it present to a viewer, aiming at changing the sociopolitical distance between the body of the viewer and the forest bringing it closer together instigating a more intimate relation between the two.
Bialowieza is one of the last remaining parts of the primal forest that once stretched across the northern European lowlands and a designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is home to many rare and unique species of wildlife including being the only area, where the european bison still survives in the wild. It is currently under threat from increased logging, which is the policy of the new polish government. The policy is very controversial and subject to intense debate, which gives a context to this project.

My Body Is The Forest The Forest Is My Body

From the album Flying Rivers (Jeff Gburek & George Christian). The soundscape entitled "Amazonas" was composed after careful listening to the extensive field recording of the Mamori Lake area in Brazil made by Thelmo Cristovam. Within this ambience I wove the other sounds of George Christian walking in San Salvador, the voice of a young indigenous girl singing a song to the river. I wrote a poem in English which George Christian translated into Portuguese. I asked various Portuguese speaking friends to read the poem. Many thanks again to Ana Kavalis (Cuba/ Berlin), Cristina Ferreia (Poznan/ Porto, Portugal) , Denize Mota (Poznan/ Manaus, Brazil). Many thanks to the rivers and oceans and to great spirit. Full text available on Bandcamp.
https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/album/flying-rivers

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Amazonas(Flying Rivers)

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Amazonas(Flying Rivers)

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