I really like this! What causes the base "rumble"is it wind?? Can you explain how you adapted the micrphones?

hi rafael - mike from touch sends greetings!

very cool. Exciting. looking forward to you releasing them.

Very good...enjoyed listening...fascinating sounds.....

What if the secret life of the machines that surround me every day grew suddenly louder, the way a part of the body cries out for attention whenever pain arises? I began to walk through my new and apparently post-pandemic city, where the quiet streets hummed again, and even the air seemed cut with a new intensity and purpose. This track begins with a late night calling, an uneven pulse, that summons a world of ticking gears and levers, underpinned with dark drones and stretched choral verses, as if despair was the necessary beginning of every joy.

Back In The Streets

Album: Sun Yizhou and Zhu Wenbo [Responses] (CD)
Release Date: September 10, 2022

[Tracklist]
1. C
2. D
3. M
4. E
5. H
6. L

Sun Yizhou (孙一舟): no-imput preamp
Zhu Wenbo (朱文博): clarinet (E, L), toy piano (C, M), cassette player (C, H), transducers (D, H), microphone (D), snare drum (D, H), guitar (H)

Recorded by Zhu Wenbo at his home on April 9, 2022.
Mixed by Sun Yizhou and Zhu Wenbo
Mastered by Zhu Wenbo

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Sun Yizhou and Zhu Wenbo / H (excerpt)

Begin quietly with this, as one of the Ravens will perch and call right in front of the microphones, before receding into the distance, again. While it's up close, listen for the quiet 'after-voicing' at the end of many of its calls.

Recorded on land of the Danggali and Meru peoples. Unprocessed recording (96/24 > 48/24).

2023.05.19 Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides). Mallee Country. Morning. Late Autumn.

Face To Face With The Submarine And Its Shiny Iron

an extract from track 5 of the photo book / cd release:

'dissolves'

available here:

https://engravedglass.bandcamp.com/merch/jez-riley-french-dissolves-photo-book-ty-cd

topolo snail shells (extract)

an extract from a set of recordings of  sulphurous 120 degree mud pools in Iceland, recorded with 2 JrF d-series hydrophones

from the forthcoming  'ísland   |  archives (skjalasafn)' publication

2018

Solfataras (extract)

from 'ink botanic'

https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/ink-botanic.php

the inner sounds of a cherry birch tree - recorded with adapted JrF microphones

photo by Pheobe riley Law, from her 'desire lines' project / book

ink botanic - cherry birch

from 'ink botanic' 

https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/ink-botanic.php

a recording of the root system of a group of plants - mainly japonica peach blossom but with other smaller species also.

recorded using prototype JrF microphones based on the c-series contact mics. 

listen with headphones for the more subtle sounds alongside those of regular transpiration.

ink botanic - (japonica peach blossom)

(listen with good headphones or conventional speakers to get a sense of the full frequency range)

3 extracts from recordings made with JrF c-series contact microphones;

rain bowl - sweden
railings - sussex
railings - stockholm

I'm posting these particular recordings to highlight the low frequency response capable with the c-series contact mics. Frequencies down to 10hz can be detected. All digital recorders have a 10hz limited installed that can't be turned off without hacking the recorder.

resonances recorded with c-series contact mics

Edited and remastered version of Habala, first published in 2018. 
Made with passion and modular synths.

Habala

habala

Originally composed for the 2020 edition of the Australasian Computer Music Conference, 'City Circles' is a 28 minute piece that furthers my research on loops as a main musical currency, as well as the exploration of urban sounds and scenery, also present in 2018's "A deafening silence". 

Available from chemical imbalance in CDR and digital: https://chemical-imbalance.bandcamp.com/album/subespai-city-circles

Composed by Subespai (Mauri Edo).
Artwork & layout by Josh Paton.
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Matthew Syres.
Performed @ Alpha House Gallery in Erskineville, Gadigal Land. Sovereignty was never ceded.

City Circles (excerpt)

exploring the overlooked and underheard through located sound, film and photography

ink botanic - cherry birch

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