Name: Radio/Ratio, Plovdiv, Bulgarian Sketches by Jeff Gburek
Duration: 7 min 23 s
Description: concrete music from the airwaves and from the stones which fluctuate. short-wave radio, theremin, train station phonography, drum programming, percussion of glasses and bird-cages. image from karolina ossowska

Liked the percussion, quite eloquent in this electronic set...

Dark, mysterious, propulsive and trancey...

what exactly is being sketched... very good It would be interesting to see.

Very mysterious and beautiful, I though of all the posters about the dead in Bulgaria.

i don't know where i get my ideas from but i still like this track. thanks for listening again. i'd like to thank you for creating this also but that might seem too overly subjective to sound sincere.

Recorded  12 October 2024 at Casa Bagnolo, Milis Sardinia. A performance for processed field recordings and improvised Bass Guitar. Written during my Nocefresca residency and performed as part of the AMACI Giornata del Contemporaneo festival 2024

Conversazioni Difficili con il Mare LIVE

[00:00] Part I; [02:55] Part II, "Hammerklavier"; [13:24] Part III

Radio bardo ₂₀₁₆ ᶰʸᶜ

This meditation on this year's blood moon eclipse employs 5 layers of field recordings, two from this year and three others recorded on this day in the previous years. Enjoy the slow pace and open space. A work in progress., it is.

blood moon eclipse op 340

Composite field recordings modified and mixed with a live sound feed on September 15 reworked somewhat today in Suceava at Residentia de creatie. Thanks to Rustic Camping Spot and Dan Prodan for cooperation and letting me work in and around them. Recordings include VLF captures from Baile Herculane and shortwave radio and turntable. 

Viile Satu Mare Sept 15 Composition

Recordings from July 28 and 29 reflect the peculiar ambiance of a multitasking bridge over the Danube near Borcea, where the two counties divide. In the darkness the source of the various drones and incidental noises become mysterious because untraceable. Enjoyable because not so loud as to be alarming although sometimes these sounds can be disquieting. This is a work in progress for an album I hope to complete during my residency here in Suceava. Thanks to Dan Prodan, Zidul de Hartie and Rustic Camping Spot for their support.

Podul Borcea Construction 1

This excerpt featuring the dawn singing of a Golden Whistler is from the last few minutes of the longer recording https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/2025-09-13-ngarkat-dawn-early-spring.

The recording was made with a mid-side rig utilising an omnidirectional mid microphone.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Ngargad (Ngarket) people.
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Track photo credit: Australian Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis ssp. fuliginosa), https://www.inaturalist.org/people/anthonypaul.

2025.09.13 Golden Whistler. Ngarkat Dawn. Early Spring.

A wide and deep, gently rhythmically hypnotic, mallee heathland dawn, from an evening to morning recording made with a mid-side rig utilising an omnidirectional mid microphone. (Relaxed listening with good quality headphones with flat frequency response, especially open-backed, at a moderate volume, is ideal. But what you hear, and how you hear it, depends, most of all, on what you're listening for, and  how you're listening. This is not a 'pop' recording (and no apologies for that).)

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Ngargad (Ngarket) people.

Track photo: taken at the recording location, in Ngarkat Conservation Park, on the second morning of recording.

2025.09.13 Ngarkat Dawn. Early Spring.

In Sanskrit, ‘Prakanda’ is the trunk of a tree, from its root to its branches. Additionally, it can mean ‘excellent’, ‘prominent’, ‘superior’ and ‘transcendent’.

I explored ideas about trees by listening to various artists’ recordings using contact microphones inside the trees. I also spent hours walking in ancient woodlands, listening and observing them. But I couldn’t find what I wanted until, by accident, I discovered the most beautiful images of tree-rings. They reminded me of the surface of a desert, the ocean, the patterns of water; the references might be endless. 

Each tree-ring has its own structure, form and appearance and they became my main source of inspiration. In the music I have mapped these images into many sonic patterns, the music’s structure based on independent melodic lines, each with its own time, pitch, timbre and articulation.

Video artist - Lukas Miceika 

The work was commissioned by the Lithuanian Association LATGA, by Music Authors Fund in 2025.

The piece was premiered by ensemble Kwartludium (Poland): Dagna Sadkowska (violin), Piotr Nowicki (piano), Michal Gorczynski (bass clarinet), and Pawel Nowicki (percussion) at International Contemporary Music festival Gaida, on 26th October, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2025.

Prakanda

Marco Lucchi : piano and electric organ

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for the current #disquiet junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2025/10/09/disquiet-junto-project-0719-riding-on-the-metronome/

piano sketch 2 [disquiet # 0719] 60 bpm

Marco Lucchi : piano and electric tanpura

aeolian meditation

concrete music from the airwaves and from the stones which fluctuate. short-wave radio, theremin, train station phonography, drum programming, percussion of glasses and bird-cages. image from karolina ossowska

Radio/Ratio, Plovdiv, Bulgarian Sketches

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