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)

Matter, mater, madre 

Matter, mater, madre 
the origin of things 
and their substance.
The manner in which
molecules interact with 
one another, bind to one another
break inhibitions and conceive 
anew while ignoring 
other choices. 

Things and their substance
our substance. 
To the eye the task and the peril 
of matching what appears with 
what it’s familiar, dispensing with 
experience. The loss of the univocal 
and unambiguous certainty 
of proximity. 

Your substance that I borrow
from the stream 
when it steers its current and 
enlaces my forearm
abandoned to its will.
My substance detrital and lithified
at the estuary.
Matter carrying matter.

Things and their substance
The unambiguous certainty of proximity 
Le cose e la loro sostanza
L’inequivocabile certezza della prossimità

Reifications/Minimal Animal/Reanimations

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Reanimations (w/ Ilaria Boffa)

Ficha Técnica:
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Linha de Som:
Maria Phuturista 
Dj Augu Besta
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Lista do Play:
Flying Lotus - Until the Colours Come versus Augu - Mergulho num poço frio 
Maria Phuturista - Peixe Lunático
Edu Lobo - Ponteio
Germano Mathias - Minha Nega na Janela
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Calcinha Preta - V.N.V.N.M.E.G.D.V.
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Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes versus Paulo Leminski - Dor Elegante
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>>>> gravado remotamente via wi-fi, utilizando Whatsapp, Google Meet, Virtual DJ, Spotify e microfones dos aparelhos móveis.
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Siga no Instagram:
@discotecawifi
@mariaphuturista
@augu_besta

Ep 01 *MariaPhuturista*  Discoteca Wi FI  ___ Dia Dxs Namoradxs 2021

Recorded in the village of Belovo, Bulgaria. Белово, България
I uploaded this for sharing but then truly felt at a loss, or hesitant, to say anything about it other than it is uncut. Perhaps my lack will to publicize or speculate idly is due to respect for the spiritual nature of the song (clearly a prayer/incantation) and that words can't serve a at this junction. Perhaps also not being able to find a photo that is appropriate prevents the words to assemble themselves. It could also be just a matter of time. I captured 2 other occassions. Our hasty departure did not give me another opportunity to meet Angelina and ask her about these actions. We had even written ourselves a script of Bulgarian phrases and questions just for the occasion of meeting her in the street which never came. I am not sure where she lives really.

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Angelina in Bulgaria 46

for clarinet, viola, piano and electronics.

no (silence, just) once

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

an extremophiles raw track by jeff gburek

Eternally Repurposed Flame Raw

2023 - 0203

Notbirds

based on the "emptier version" of The Path by Marco Lucchi. 
For more information see the Facebook group for The Path (www.facebook.com/groups/1722536274673793/)

settembre 2016

Jeff Gburek - Urthepatheton

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

Engbeté, Sinakpa and others playing 'guerilla' music on the bulubu pot bow. A wire is pulled tight across a cooking pot, and plucked and beaten as the tension changes. The bow is usually attached to a hut and can make the whole shelter vibrate. Recorded by Louis Sarno in the Central African Republic on the 23rd April 1993.

Engbeté, Sinakpa and others playing 'guerilla' music on the bulubu pot bow

Taking a recording I made of a resonant cathedral space in Berlin, I sought to compose a sequence of frames that might reveal the complex relationships of reflective surfaces by creating gaps and juxtapositions of diverse moments, a sonic cubist approach. I was interested in finding traces that reinforce both the silence and the sound by venturing into a ruptured temporal fabric. My body, my device. Sound that reveals the silence, the interplay between calm and turbulence, the rustling thresholds of clothing etc. One of the revealing sounds was that of an infant. In the manipulation of the sound file the child's voice undergoes a metamorphosis. I leave it to the listeners to have their own experience of this transformation.  The pure play of voice as it reaches the limits of it own articulation evolves with the aid of digital means toward an otherness and echoes the lost or forgotten voices perhaps recovered in this moment between birth and extinction.

Evolvability (Our Voice)

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)

小雨蛙 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841)
Huge density of this tiny frog chorusing like hell around a little pond in a little forest, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Also present, the 斑腿樹蛙 Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) invasive species in Taiwan.
The site is located near little factories and roads, the background noise hasn't been filtered.
Recorded with two Sennheiser MKH40 and Zaxcom Maxx.
20/03/2020

200320 Microhyla ornata - Taoyuan

Raw and remixed field recordings of gong orchestras throughout southeast Asia. Recorded, assembled, and remixed by Yasuhiro Morinaga for Radio is a Foreign Country. Yasuhiro Morinaga is a sound artist and filmmaker living in Tokyo. After graduating Tokyo University of the Arts, Yasuhiro has carried out field recording expeditions documenting the origins of musical instruments and the soundscapes of shamanic healing rituals throughout southeast Asia (see www.the-concrete .org). 

PLAYLIST
Ambience: (Toraja group), Rambu Solo (Funeral ceremony) from Toraja, Sulawesi Island
Tau Dou / (Tau Humba group), Sumba Island
Harvesting / (Tau Humba group), Sumba Island
Funeral / (M’nong + Krung groups), Mondalkiri, Northeast Cambodia
Ma Badong Chanting / (Toraja group), Toraja, Sulawesi Island
Gong Practice by Yasuhiro Morinaga  / Bali Island
Manang Sirang - chanting / (Dayak Iban group) West Kalimantan, Borneo Island
Cut the Bamboo, / (M’nong Prang group), Central highland of Vietnam
Hail / (Ede group), Central Highlands of Vietnam 
Guarding Rice Seeds / (Makassar group) Makassar, Sulawesi Island
Daily Routine for everyday life / (Krung group), Ratanakiri, Northeast Cambodia
Hedung Dance / (Lamaholot group), Flores Island
Balangbang / (Kanakanaey group), Northern Luzon Island 
A Month after the Death / (Bahnar group), Central Highland of Vietnam
Sole Oha Ritual / (Lamaholot group), Flores Island
Hsaing Waing Remixes by Yasuhiro Morinaga, Yangon, Myanmar
Ambience: (Toraja group), Rambu Solo (Funeral ceremony) from Toraja, Sulawesi Island

RIAFC 031

Gong Therapy (RIAFC 031)

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 25.07.2020 12:03 to 26.07.2020 15:42
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract was recorded on 25.07.2020 around 12:06 it features snapping shrimps (of course) and damselfishes and in the lower frequency (50-90Hz) a drumming sound that is probably the stressed warning call of Pomacanthus Semicirculatus (Semicircle angelfish). It was observed (and disturbed, sorry) when deploying the recorder and was swimming around. To be confirmed

200725 - Pomacanthus Semicirculatus

Venedig Czwartek 926 music by https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek
Sonopoem by https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa
Pic by IB: view from Fusina ferry boat, Porto Marghera Petrochemical Plant

'Ebb Tidal Delta, Findings & Intercourse

Upon progression, stasis. 
The planimetry of transgressive deposits 
detects nonconforming incoming signals. Findings? 
Maximum flooding and ebb tidal delta on our faces afterwards.  
Our channels capped and monitored by safeguard norms. We’ve been 
rounding down our drives. The exercise of replacing intercourse with course 
although an inter-course is a course between. Shouldn’t we map an intercourse? 

For the sake of science.'

Ebb Tidal Delta, Findings & Intercourse In Venedig, Czwartek 926 (Gburek&Boffa)

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/