thi, for me. evokes a feeling of twilight turning to dark. Not sure why, may be the laconic guitar turning to ebow. the field recording 'voices' feel like the they are winding up for the day. Wonderful evocative piece

Recoded mainly for the snipe, but featuring many other species including:
River Warbler,
Sedge Warbler,
Corn Crake,
Bittern, 
Thrush Nightingale,
Bluethroat
+ Probably an Otter...

Common Snipe + more

Underwater recording of the Common frog (Rana temporaria) spawning at the beginning of March, in County Fermanagh, Ireland. 

Species: Common frog (Rana temporaria)
Date and time of recording: 02 March 2021, 7am
Benaughlin Mountain track, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
Habitat: Pond, Forestry managed pine forest

Gear (with Affiliate Links)
Sound Devices 744T
Aquarian Audio H2D hydrophones
Nikon D750 https://amzn.to/3UN0D1m
Tamron 150-600mm https://amzn.to/3UTV8xY
NIKKOR 28-300mm https://amzn.to/4c2gwb8

Common Frog Jam Underwater

Pharoah Ant Stridulations

The two tracks are the mixing result of multiple recordings that took place at Grotte di Zungri (Calabria) in August 2024.

Violin, vocals Ida di Vita
Vocals Fabio Nicora
Field recording, vocals, poetry, mixing Ilaria Boffa

La Calcara

Scava, scava la pietra bianca la cava
le granaglie, calcare
e il mare lontano
scava quel foro, la fornace sfiata lo sfiato del fumo
lo senti il mare lontano che scava la rada?
e qui sul monte, il Poro la Calcara resta sospesa, appesa
e chiama ‘veni veni’.

Spectres

Dig, dig the rock
the white cave dig
the wheat in the lime-kiln
and the distant sea
dig that hole, the furnace discharge smoke
do you hear the distant sea
that digs the shore?
and here in the mountain, il Poro la Calcara rests
hangs suspended
and calls ‘veni veni’.

Spectres

The Butterfly's Burden for 2 guitars

There, in the jewel

Recorded on Olympus dictaphone from inside the tent without then knowing who it was. Identified later from the same recording using BirdNET ID.

Scops Owl Timis River Romania

Red Deer roars from deep in the forest.

"Sortie" in French: output, exit, outlet, release, outflow, outing. "Sept" because it's September and the Latin root word for seven because there will be seven pieces upon completion of the cycle. I wanted, still want to, maybe call it "Sept Saties", owing to the fact I was thinking minimalistically of the composer, Erik Satie, these first days of Autumn, with the chestnuts and leaves beginning to detach. All the pieces will use the same sound stem composed of field recordings from Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. This is number two. And I play the violin.

Sept Sorties #3

"Sortie" in French: output, exit, outlet, release, outflow, outing. "Sept" because it's September and the Latin root word for seven because there will be seven pieces upon completion of the cycle. I wanted, still want to, maybe call it "Sept Saties", owing to the fact I was thinking whimsically of the composer, Erik Satie, these first days of Autumn, with the chestnuts and leaves beginning to detach. All these pieces will use the same sound stem composed of field recordings (including hydrophones and VLF) from Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. This is number 4. Electric guitar (Hagstrom Viking and slide and ebow.

Sept(ember) Sorties #4

This, originally composed for 8 channel, performance has been created from processed field recorded sounds captured with contact mics, hydrophones and geophones, etc. . 

It is dedicated to the small non-humans inhabiting the earth but destined for human listeners. It's an invitation to listen with the non-human world. 

All around us there are thryllions of insects, bugs, warms who travel through different earthly stratospheres searching for breakfast, to sleep or seeking a mate. They live for a fleeting moment and they never complain. They surrender to the earthly laws of life. Now, due to increased polution of the air, water and soil many are disappearing without hope of return. In the terrifying times of  climate crises, which form of life can be safe actually?  

This performance was first presented at Heroines of Sound Festival 2023. It is accompanies by a poem spoken live:

Why Don't You Love Me?

We all have hearts
Made of grass
Made of leaves
Made of tree bark
made of soil
Our segmented but flawless bodies
want to fly high but
Sometimes we land
On your kitchen table
Or we’re held captive by a mirage of your window
We feed on the dust you leave behind
breadcrumbs, dirty nail bites, hair
The skins you shed
Droplets
of your sweat and words
We are Flyers by,
Fast food eaters,
Your Nervous micro lovers and singers
barely seen
already disappeared
Not to disturb
your daily life
To stay alive at all price
Escaping your eye, your touch
And we can bite if prompted to
But you’ll survive
And if one of us dies
We care
We grieve
And we die as well unnoticed
One day too soon
But We all have hearts
Made of grass
Made of leaves
Made of tree bark
Made of you.

Why don't you Love Me? (stereo version)

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Sept(ember) Sorties #4

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