Field Recording

Neil Luck
Downturn Fantasies
CD (E255)

Limited edition of 150 copies
Release date: August 2021
https://entracte.co.uk/projects/Neil-Luck-E255

An abandoned title for this album — Under Eye Finger Pressure —
could be a tentative instruction to the listener. Closing your eyes,
then gently pressing the base of your eyeballs through your eyelids
is a good, slightly painful way of generating accompanying visual
phenomena. Direct from the lobes, unmediated colours and shapes
that ease passage into a less concrete way of meeting the world.

Downturn Fantasies

Neil Luck (E255; 2021)

Natura Oculta is a work by the irrepressible mutli-disciplinary artist Rubén Patiño, channeled through his Lag Os alias. It investigates  the potential for the recreation of imaginary landscapes by the use of sound. Patino set out not to create a collection of musical pieces or a sonic narrative, but rather a kind of oniric and surreal space in which an  ensemble of audible objects (or rather, creatures) could move, prosper and interact. 
Patiño primarily focus on the wetland, a typology of environment that becomes a metaphor of the eerie, the amorphous and the unknown. It is not a matter or imitating or replicating nature, tho, rather of using many different sound design techniques to establish the possibility for a different kind of nature to sprawl out: an uncanny one, at once familiar and alien. 
The aim of the work is to create fictional narratives that blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the actual and the virtual, the physical and the imaginary. Immersing in this work means exploring a space that exists as much in the physical manifestations of its many weird voices as in the interaction between the sound and the listener’s subconscious.

Natura Oculta will manifest in two forms. First as a digital album released by Haunter Records and presented in public via a nocturnal soundwalk. Then alongisde a complementary virtual environment, an experential videogame developed in collaboration with Andrea Belosi.

Natura Oculta

Porta Falsa

live recorded at les ateliers claus 11.03.2022

Piotr Kurek - live ateliers claus

Collaboration with Héctor Benítez (Tijuana)

This piece was created during the lockdown in 2020. 

Music: Héctor Benítez
Lyrics & voice: Kathia Rudametkin
Strings: Kathia Rudametkin

Love in Time

https://simplemusicexperience.bandcamp.com/album/gino-rotten

Gino Rotten - A2. II

Recorded in a dry river bed on the Limpopo river at around 5.45am, about an hour after dawn, on the 28th of November, 2014. 
The dominant birds in this recording are a group of Natal Spurfowl's (Pternistis natalensis), other species calling include: Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis), African Hoopoe (Upupa africana), Red-eyed Dove (Streptopelia semitorquata), Bearded Woodpecker (Dendropicos namaquus), Tropical Boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus), Green Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus), Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca), African Fish Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer), Southern Boubou (Laniarius ferrugineus). There are quite a few other birds calling that I haven't identified yet, mainly all the tweety birds which I always find difficult to identify.
Recorded at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa, during the 'Sonic Mmabolela' residency organized by Francisco Lopez & James Webb, many thanks to everyone involved in the residency!
And to the people who lent me money which made my involvement possible: Mum, Dad, Oma and Rachael B.

Morning At Umzumbi

A few cicadas (possibly Oxypleura quadraticollis) call together, slowly ascending to an incredibly ear-piercing chorus in which microtones blend in and out of each other to create a surreal high pitched drone which soon descends to quiet. They did this on and off for about an hour with intervals of 5 minutes or so between. This is the last time they called before they fell silent until dawn the next morning, in which they called so loud that they almost distorted my microphones, it was about 2-3 times as loud as the climax in this recording! In the background you can hear the rhythmic chopping sounds of a group of African Scops Owls (Otus senegalensis) calling in the gallery forest by the river bed.
Recorded in a dry section of the Limpopo River, at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa, around 11.30pm on the 24th of November, 2014.
Recording made during the 'Sonic Mmabolela' residency organized by Francisco Lopez and James Webb.
Many thanks to all those involved with the residency, and to the people who lent me money which made my involvement possible: Mum, Dad, Oma and Rachael B.

Cicadas In The Middle Of The Night

A composition made from sounds recorded recently in Kiama, during a short break while I was heading down to Murramarang National Park on the south coast of NSW. 
A cool Autumn wind sings melodiously through the wires at the viewing platform for the famous Kiama Blowhole, which was exploding large amounts of coastal water out as I recorded this, surrounded by many spectators. Layered with hydrophone recordings I got in a large rock pool a hundred or so metres away. These two recordings were gathered within 30 minutes of each other and since they are so close I feel that they are intimately related. They live side by side every day, yet we would never be able to hear them together without the aid of listening devices such as these microphones.
Recorded between 2:30 and 3:00pm on the 28th of March, 2015. 

Wind Singing In The Wires By The Coast

Artaline - Пронизывающая аудиопростынка метрополитена

Composition made from unprocessed recordings of electronic appliances in my home, recorded with a coil pick-up.
Appliances recorded include, my plasma tv, my computer screen, my external hard drive, my computer mouse, my xbox 360, my freezer, my oven, my stereo amp, my blu-ray player, my heater, my old Yamaha keyboard, etc.

Electromagnetism Inside My Home

From ou https://careof.bandcamp.com/merch/lucrecia-dalt-ou-12-vinyl

04 - Eleanore (closing track)

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Hand In Hand' (Shelter Press SP081)

OUT ON MAY 4TH, 2017 on 2XLP / CD / DL
INFO / ORDER : http://shelter-press.org/felicia-atkinson-hand-in-hand/

Distribution : Boomkat (EU/UK/ROW) — Forced Exposure (USA)
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Félicia Atkinson new full length album, ‘Hand In Hand’ is an expanded development of her musical compositions started with the highly-acclaimed
A Readymade Ceremony released on Shelter Press in 2015, and follows her collaborative effort with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Comme Un Seul Narcisse (Shelter Press, 2016).

Composed over the year of 2016 at EMS during a snow storm and at home in Brittany, Hand in Hand could be considered as the most ambitious body of work recorded by the French musician and artist.

Doubt and Optimism are the two sides of a same coin. Hand in Hand is arid and warm in its whole synchrony and opposition. Days are burning and nights are made of ice. Coyotes are exchanging sounds with rattles snakes while bunnies are hiding. Strident modular sounds are tearing apart minimal beats and drones. The stories told by A Voice to the auditor are no longer fictions and become slowly reality.

Electric waves transmitted by living creatures and machines seem to deliver special sounds and frequencies that only non-human can hear. They grow and vibrate despite of the walls and interdictions. Therefore, the human who is listening to this record might find in it a particular kind of emotion a way to take space in silence, and frame a certain vision of thinking while losing a certain notion of time, acknowledging step by step its universal environment. Plants, galaxies, animals, machines, Hand in Hand.

This record is meant to be a moment of common thinking and listening in its diversity and abstraction. In the same way a sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick or a sculpture by Guy Mees can be percieved: trivial, sensitive and mysterious at the same time.

The opening track, I’m Following You is a bleached romantic ballad for Fender Rhodes that could be the ending title of a Martian love story, whereas Visnaga praises the resources of a desert plant through asmr voices, field recordings and evasive chords. A House A Dance A Poem is a feminist hymn composed as a pyramidal structure, referring in the same time to the A-frame houses, the yoga position of the triangle, the first letter of the roman alphabet and the feminine sex. In the closing song, No Fear But Anticipation, Atkinson offers an open hearted plea about the existentialist necessity of finding desire even when the times seem too dark to think about it. A telepathic and non-scholastic anthem for Don Delillo, Joan Didion and Jean Paul Sartre. The final Buchla sounds that close the record seem to deliver an unspeakable message that only birds and aliens could transcript.

The echo of the 80’s sci-fi anxious aethetics resonates with today’s transparency of digital sounds in the whole record. The cohabitation of simple midi textures and historical Serge and Buchla signals are convoked and confronted together by A Voice. The human instrument appears here as the epicenter of the recordings, giving to the others instruments a gravitational point.

Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley or Delia Derbyshire are the main influences of Atkinson in their own way of inviting fiction, composition and abstraction as the essential materials of composition. For Hand In Hand, Félicia Atkinson used different sources for the lyrics and scores of her tracks: house plant instruction books, Desert Magazine old issues, architecture manuals, JG Ballard and K. Dick’s books, as well as her own poetry.

Félicia Atkinson will premiere Hand In Hand for GRM’s festival Presences Electroniques with a 16 channels diffusion. A 7 hours extended version of the record, conceived as an evironmental audio book will be broadcasted for 2 months at La Criée Center for Contemporary Art from April 1 to May 31 in Rennes (FR).

Hand In Hand

Visnaga

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Visnaga' (SP081)

2018 · Stockholm, Sweden.

Composed during a two month residency at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm, with support from Nordic Culture Point.

Premiered at Saarbrücker Tage für elektroakustische und visuelle Musik on the 31st of October 2019.

Original format: 8-channel fixed medium.

Exiles (Stereo reduction)

The second movement of Morton Feldman's music for the film ‘Sculpture by Lipton’ , a documentary from 1954 about the work of the sculptor Seymour Lipton to which Feldman wrote the music. The original score has not survived, but the piece was transcribed from the soundtrack by Philip Thomas, who performs it on his 5-CD box set of Feldman's piano music, which will be released in September 2019.

Morton Feldman - Lipton Piece #2, played by Philip Thomas

These stunning vocal polyphonies sung by indigenous people of Taiwan, including fertility songs, healing songs, songs for the ancestors, recorded in 1966 and 1988, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/06/taiwan-polyphonies-vocales-des.html

Polyphonies Vocales des Aborigènes de Taiwan – Ami / Bunun / Paiwan / Rukai – Inédit W 460011 (Cassette)

Taiwan indigenous vocal polyphony - Germination Song

Producer since 1982 of early-computer, industrial, tribal, techno and soundtrack music

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