A simple comparison of stereo pairs of microphones.
DPA 4060 omni pair spaced approximately 30cm apart
MKH 8020 omni pair spaced approximately 45cm apart
MKH 8040 cardioid pair in ORTF configuration

Each sample is 40 seconds long.
Recorded on a Zoom F6

Thunderstorm Mic Comparison - DPA4060 MKH8020 MKH8040 Stereo Pairs

Edges is taken from the album ‘Swept’, an exploration of emotional turbulence, resilience and rejuvenation. Created with electric guitar, modular and analogue synthesizers and pedals, most of the sounds were recorded at the start of the global pandemic. The album is bookended with field recordings made from the artist’s garden in East London. It opens with the sound of tarpaulin sheets on a neighboring construction site swept by heavy winds during Storm Ciara, shortly before the first UK lockdown, and closes with the sound of birdsong after rainfall, signaling hope for better times.

Swept

Wil Bolton - Edges

Cat no: homen150
Artist: Stefano Guzzetti
Album: Letters from Nowhere (Piano Book Volume Three)
Release Date: July 7th 2023
Format: CD + Digital

Press Release:

'“Letters from Nowhere” is the third and final release in Stefano Guzzetti’s Piano Book series where its sonic palette, during the time span of a decade, changed progressively. Starting from “At home”, the first volume where the protagonist was just the acoustic and minimal expressiveness of the instrument, passing through “Short stories”, where subtle electronics were added to the resonance of the notes, and arriving to this final album, where the piano plays along with a range of selected old hardware synthesizers.

“Letters from Nowhere” is a correspondence from imaginary places and states of mind, where the composer took his time to describe the intensity of one moment, the vastness of despair, but also the joy of reuniting again with the people and places we love. This work is also a love letter to Japan, with tracks like “Shoji” and “Tokyo at night” describing the beauty of places and settings that, even if strongly contrasting in their nature, never fail to catch the heart of the composer.

“At home” was released with the 051 catalogue number, with “Short stories” following as 105. We conclude with this last album as release 150 in the Home Normal catalogue. Whether by accident or design, this third release in the series is the best way to close this body of work started in 2014 on Home Normal.'

- Stefano Guzzetti 


Links:

https://stefanoguzzetti.com/


Tracks:

1. Our hands
2. Finally home
3. She sleeps
4. Fede
5. Tokyo at night
6. A distant point in the sky
7. A fragile leaf against the wind
8. Shoji
9. Summer night
10. Aurora 
11. Under the stars


Credits:

All music written, produced and mixed by Stefano Guzzetti
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Cover photography by Fiorella Sanna

Published by Mute Song Ltd.
copyright © 2023 Home Normal

Letters From Nowhere (Piano Book Volume Three)

homen150 Stefano Guzzetti - Letters From Nowhere (Piano Book Volume Three) (album sampler)

Glacis is London-based Scottish composer Euan Millar-McMeeken, who some may recall from his previous collaboration work on Whitelabrecs including ‘Nothing Hurts Forever’ with Gavin Miller and as one half of Dead Bell, alongside The Green Kingdom. Euan also records as Civic Hall with Craig Tattersall and as Gallowglas alongside Johan G Winther. His most recent work 'Distances' with Adrian Lane was released on vinyl via Oscarson.

As a frequent collaborator, it is fitting that Euan’s debut for Whitelabrecs is in fact further partnered music in the form of ‘Interpretations’. He invited 11 artists to adapt, distort and deconstruct a collection of his original compositions, realising these into an album in its own right. Interpretations are not simply remixes. Euan explains that he’s never really liked the term ‘remix’ as it simplifies the process of working with original material. He never intended for this record to be a remix record and now it is complete, this feeling remains.

Euan aimed high in curating his artists, enlisting the likes of Tape Loop Orchestra, the Humble Bee, C.Diab and Satomimage and placing them alongside friends and regular collaborators including The Green Kingdom, Simon McCorry and Adrian Lane.

The tracks contained on Interpretations are all careful sonic studies of the original work that respond and react in different ways. Some of the pieces contain moments of the original pieces, some are unrecognisable, all are fascinating examinations. A rebirth, of a kind, from the original idea. Through these interpretations, the tracks are given new meaning and new life. Remarkably, this hour of music stands together as an album experience, despite the variety of the line-up and each artist’s approach to composition.

interpretations

wlr142 glacis - interpretations

Thela

Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Thela

Temper (For Clarinets & Shaker)

Marco Lucchi | synth and tools

morphing "De spiritu santo" by Hildegard von Bingen, played by Noel Akchoté on elec guitar
https://soundcloud.com/noelakchote-1/hildegard-von-bingen-chants-02-de-spititu-sancto

21 aprile 2016

https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/un-grande-fiume-al-tramonto free download

Noel Akchoté & Marco Lucchi - Un grande fiume, al tramonto

DM Stith, vocalist
The Crossing
American Composers Orchestra
Donald Nally, conductor

02 My City  2. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

"Adnasjur" - large wave or waves, coming off a succession of lesser ones

Music by Hammock
Artwork by Gregory Euclide

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Hammock - Adnasjur

Maps and Diagrams - Kalia

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Composer. Co-director of New Amsterdam Records / New Amsterdam Presents. Curator of the Ecstatic Music Festival. Member of NOW Ensemble and The Yehudim. Analog w/ digital filters. New music for old instruments.

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