Bagley Wood Winter Morning

9pm Oxford Time

Recorded on the morning of Norways National Day the 17th of May in a park west in Bergen.

Spring is in full effect, and the dawn chorus sounds wonderful! 


Recorder: Sony PCM A10
Mic: LOM micro Usi as "tree ears"

17th Of May Dawn Chorus

Andrea and Arif speak to Overexposed resident Angela YT Chan about puddles of water, ecofascism, and living room conversations about nature and its multiple definitions.

Angela YT Chan (UK) is an independent curator and artist. As a ‘creative climate change communicator’, she focuses on anti-colonial climate justice, knowledge systems, geography, and contemporary speculative fiction. She collaborates widely with artists, activists, speculative fiction authors and youth groups.

Sonic Acts hosts six participants in the home-based residency programme 'Overexposed' which deals with pollution and its effects on everything living and non-living.

Andrea Gonzalez and Arif Kornweitz of Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee produce and present this series of conversations with residents about artefacts that have moved their practice in a lasting way. 

With additional production by Monty Mouw.

Overexposed Podcast: Water Scarcity with Angela YT Chan

'Speaking Sirens' is a podcast for Aura Satz’s 'Warnings in Waiting' exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (09.06.23 – 06.08.23). It is part of Satz's larger 'Preemptive Listening' film and research project on emergency listening and alternative siren sounds.

'Speaking Sirens' includes excerpts of specially-commissioned compositions from Debit, Evelyn Glennie, Laurie Spiegel and David Toop, and spoken word interviews by Daphne Carr, Evelyn Glennie and Hillel Schwartz, hosted by artist and film maker Aura Satz with researcher and curator Irene Revell.

https://preemptivelisteningfilm.com/

Preemptive Listening is funded by AHRC amongst other key partnerships.

Speaking Sirens

‘Plateau’ is a auditory time-lapse history of Scotland’s Cairngorm high plateau. It is composed of four sections corresponding to the fluctuations of cold (Stadial) and warmer (Interstadial) climatic conditions: 

(1) The Last Glacial Maximum / (Late) Dimlington Stadial (27,000 to 16,000 BP)
(2) The Late-Glacial Interstadial (c.14,670 to 12,900 BP)
(3) The Loch Lomond Stadial (12,900 to 11,700 BP) 
(4) The early Holocene (11,700 to c.9,000 BP)

‘Plateau’ is part of ‘Looking Up’, a research project focusing on the post-glacial landscape, archaeology and heritage of the Scottish Uplands, led by Sam Kelley (University College of Dublin, School of Earth Sciences), Graeme Warren (University College Dublin, School of Archaeology) and Alice Doughty (University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences). 

The technique used to determine the timing of deglaciation on the high plateau involved project scientists collecting samples of rock containing quartz grains — a common mineral that is resistant to weathering. The rock samples were crushed, pulverised, sieved and sorted, before being subject to magnetic and mineral separation in order to isolate the quartz grains which contain ‘cosmogenic nuclides’ from the other minerals that make up the rock. In turn, these nuclides provided a direct means of timing their prehistoric exposure to cosmic radiation as the overlying cover of ice finally melted. In total, these samples give us a picture in space and time of the former glaciers in the Cairngorms in the face of warming post-glacial climate.

This process of sample collection and analysis directly informed the composition of ‘Plateau’. Stones from the locality were collected and their surface interactions recorded at high frequency sample rates. The resulting waveforms were then subjected to granular analysis, so that ‘single-cycle waveforms’ displaying tonal characteristics could be isolated and extracted. These grains of sound became the foundation of the musical composition.

https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/research/lookingup/

‘Looking Up: the future of early prehistoric heritage in Europe’s mountains’ is funded by the Irish Research Council’s COALESCE programme 2021–2023 (IRC COALESCE/2021/78) and is coordinated by University College Dublin’s School of Archaeology and School of Earth Sciences, with partners in University of Maine, Purdue University (both USA) and Aberdeenshire County Council.

https://www.richardskelton.net/land-music/plateau

Plateau

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Field recordings done on site and music composed and arranged by J R House.

200 km above the Arctic Circle, in the magical light from the midnight sun and the northern lights.
-20 degree intermittent snowstorms and blizzard.

I and a team of Aurora scientists led a group of artists into the unknown.Over the following days I made extensive field recordings and time lapse Photography.

Aurora Borealis: Solar Winds

izarharh tenere

FMP cymbals voice notes - primitive

Sirens Songs

This is a short clip of a longer project I´m working on.

Recording the fjords in the western part of Norway.

In this clip you can hear a lot of crustations, a cod or two and a big "boom" that most likely is from a road construction on the other side of the mountain.


feel free to check out my YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOYhRGOd_AKMb7grQFcKqYA

Sirens Songs

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