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)

Field Recording

Music for sleep

Audible Frontiers

Jeff Gburek / Marco Lucchi

Field Recordings by Jeff Gburek

German-born Hildegard Westerkamp studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiberg before emigrating to Canada in her early twenties. After completing her music studies at the University of British Columbia, she joined the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University under the direction of R. Murray Schafer. Her involvement with this project not only prompted deep concerns about the encroachment of noise and the general state of the acoustic environment, it also changed her thinking about music, listening, and soundmaking. The newly founded Vancouver Co-operative Radio provided an invaluable opportunity to learn about broadcasting and ultimately enabled her to produce and host her weekly program, Soundwalking, in 1978/79.
Hildegard was a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, an international network of affiliated organizations and individuals who share a common concern for the state of the world’s soundscapes and has served over the years as a mentor for people pursuing careers in soundscape composition and acoustic ecology. Her own compositions, performed and broadcast in many parts of the world, engage with such aspects of the acoustic environment as urban, rural, and wilderness soundscapes; noise and silence; music and media sounds; human voices of all ages; and the sounds of different cultures. She has composed film soundtracks, sound documents for radio and has produced and hosted Musica Nova as well as Soundwalking on Vancouver Co-operative Radio.
https://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/
Natalie Brown:
http://www.soundshealstudio.com
http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio
http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio
http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal
Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA
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Sounds Heal Podcast with Hildegard Westerkamp and Natalie Brown

Listening with good headphones in a quiet environment is recommended.

Related tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20211024-an-excerpt-from-a-syncopated-dawn-spring
https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20211024-a-syncopated-dawn-spring

@Bandcamp

2021.10.24 Night Music. Spring.

systematic structural instability is a process piece involving algorithmic digital transformation based on the frequency spectra of acoustically recorded sounds played in real time. this version for electric guitar and violin. 

Systematic Structural Instability, IV (2014) (Jeff Gburek & Karolina Ossowska))

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

original track by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/immer
reworked by Jeff Gburek
https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek

the "PlayGround" is a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/ppplayground/sets/playground-1

Marco Lucchi & Jeff Gburek - Immer (mix 1)

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

This Release Tease features ALTARIUM's 'Avatar'. ALTARIUM is a hybrid, multi-instrumental, collaborative project consisting of an eclectic fusion between synthesizers, drum machines and live instrumentation. Founded by Nikhil Sundar & Prasanna Kumar in November 2022, the driving vision behind the project was a centered around a collective yearning to break boundaries that currently exist within the musical artform, with an output consisting of dreamy, nostalgic & psychedelic post-progressive music, rich in detail & texture. 'AVATAR' is the debut release from Altarium - a 54 minute expansive sonic journey, thematically built to showcase the physical & psychological state of man in the depths of euphoria & heightened awareness. The tape ultimately seeks to represent the nature of man's inner voyage, drawing upon the fact that the route toward finding peace & contentment is almost ever easy.

01. OBLIVION
02. SYNESTHESIA

https://soundcloud.com/nikhilsundar | https://soundcloud.com/metanoiasoundofficial

ALTARIUM 'Avatar' | Album Premier | 23/07/2023

Composed with hydrophone recordings made around the larger pond of the park named Solacz here in Poznan. Mixed live with various softwares just today. Electronics and synth dubbed in just today.

Solacz Composition + 1

02 Gently Penetrating

Hildegard Westerkamp | Beneath the Forest Floor (excerpt)

original composition by Jeff Gburek

recomposed by Marco Lucchi

Jeff Gburek | elec guitar
Marco Lucchi | tools

pic by Jill Rankin

23 maggio 2016

"mente zen, mente di principiante"

Jeff Gburek & Marco Lucchi - rami d'acqua scorrono nell'ombra

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

Inchicore Dublin Warehouse

Recordings from May 17 evening hours and May 18 morning hours in Bray first mix in Dublin (at Anseo, live & at Parnell St), second mix Dundalk May 25. Thanks to Marta Lukaszewicz, Aonghus McEvoy, Helen Marie, Fergal Cunningham.

Impressions Of Bray, 2017

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

Audible Frontiers @ Kołorking Muzyczny, Excerpt of final moment of live concert. Jeff Gburek: shortwave radio, walkie-talkies, room resonance feedback, prepared guitar, woodblock. Karolina Ossowska: violin, piano, bells, ocarina, juju rattle, toy xylophone

Audible Frontiers Excerpt

Jeff Gburek : acoustic guitar
Marco Lucchi : synth

23 aprile 2019

Jeff Gburek & Marco Lucchi - Drop out

violin, bass recorder, electric guitar, live computer processing, production by "the house that thinks it's me". as invariance. the kind stabilizing entropy. numbers and alpabeta letters in phase relations. preserving to infinity unstable potential entry. wordlessness and/or musicality of this. feedback loops as overdriven determinants. the tendency of logic signs to envelope or be enveloped by a design to incorporate them. and all the opposites

Systematic Structural Instability, 2012

SZYSZKA CLEANSING

Field Recordings. Kitchen Devices, Vegetal and other Implements. Source material recorded in Lee Foust's flat in Florence, July, 2012. 

Systematic Structural Instability #3 (Florentine Tapestries)

a mix of field recordings captured over a week spent at the isolated "wild beach" near the settlement of Irakli in Bulgaria in August of 2019, excerpted from the extended long player version available here: https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/track/irakli-black-sea-2019
microphones used were DIY hydrophones, DIY piezo-units buried in the sand and the on-board zoom binaural set at 120 degrees.

Irakli Black Sea

Rusałka Ice Mix 1, Jan 3, 2020

Check out this exclusive live set by Greek ambient, downtempo duo, THE BITZPAN!

‘The Bitzpan’ are a Downtempo / Chill project from Athens, Greece.
The artists behind the name are Panos Nikolaou and Yannis Bitzanis.
They use a mixed technique of digital-analog equipment to create their own
personal sound of various soundscapes, atmospheres and downtempo musical designs.
In an early age they showed interest in many styles of music such as trip-hop, breakbeats, ambient and electronic music.
The journey into electronic music production began back in 2002 and never stopped ever since.
Their official discography started in 2014 on labels such as Iono Music, Ovnimoon Records, Uxmal Records.

The Bitzpan on Facebook | Soundcloud
https://www.facebook.com/concertedinterplay/
https://soundcloud.com/thebitzpan

The BITZPAN – Chiaroscuro | Live Mix | Exclusive for Radiozora | 27/12/2019

A myriad cicadas start calling as soon as the afternoon light begins to fade in Tawau Hills NP, Borneo. Recorded with Zoom F6 and Lom MikroUsi Pro mics. Listen to more recordings I made in Borneo at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRlYmmK1sqrM_BB3xp6quofSq7fYdEPA

Intense Dusk Chorus In The Borneo Rainforest

Jeff Gburek / wooden slide guitar 
Marco Lucchi / piano and tools

to Ravi

12/12/12

Jeff Gburek & Marco Lucchi - a Fire Night for Ravi Shankar # 1

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/