Matthew Eric Hart: "I imagine this sound to be what we would hear if we could poke our heads under the ground and submerge our ears in the deep root network of trees. I have often attempted to record the sounds of trees, and even recently have been leading field recording workshops exploring this very practice. Though the practice is often challenging! With this sound, I wanted to create a space that would sound natural, despite its artificial nature. The source of this sound was created using a single contact microphone placed on the central stem of a pine cone. With my fingers I manipulated the scales, much like a kalimba player would to play the instrument. I then used an array of multiple effects in editing, including reverb, time stretching and frequency modulation to create the finished sound."

Best Artificial Sound: Matthew Eric Hart - Submerged Under Trees

A mixtape with some of the stronger game soundtracks in recent time. Ranging wide from Limbo over Abzu to Minecraft

0:00 - Don't Deal with the Devil - Kristofer Maddigan - Cuphead
0:40 - Et Ratio Principalis - Petri Alanko-  Control
2:17 - Samorost 3 Main Theme - Floex - Samarost 3
2:56 - Then Were Created the Gods in the Midst of Heaven - Austin Wintory - Abzu
3:40 - First Steps - Frida Johansson,Henrik Oja - Unravel 
5:30 - Looped Gardens - Håkon Kornstad - Mosaic
6:44 - All the Earth - Jessica Curry - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
8:10 - From Olympus - Darren Korb - Hades:
9:49 - Colored Engine - Joel Schoch - Far: Lone Sails
10:37 - Nightfall - Martin Kvale - Bad North
11:16 - Gravity Jump - Martin Stig Andersen - Limbo
14:33 - Clair de lune - Daniel Olsén - Sayonara Wild Hearts

Game Music Mixtape

Praha by Kostcirkeln

On a recording trip to the smaller Danish port town Struer, I came across an abandoned empty oil tank. Inside I found two giant wires attached to the floor and the ceiling of the tank, almost like a huge 2 stringed double bass. I’m telling you the reverb in there was longer than the Eiffel Tower on a cloudless day !

On the outside this was just an empty abandoned building, but it turned out it was not empty at all because it was full of sound and a few dead birds. I’m glad I was curious enough to go inside for a closer investigation and not just pass by.

After several hours of concentrated recording, it was nice to get my ears back out in dry air. I’m happy there are no open sends to Valhalla in real life but experiencing the eternal resonance on the low frequencies from the wires was absolutely amazing.

Abandoned Oil Tank was recorded with a LOM basic Ucho stereo pair, a Zoom H6 and the LOM Geofon. All files are in 96 kHz/24 bit and contain the original recordings.

The result is a unique sound effect library including balloon pop impulse responses from a truly unique location that very recently became even more unique since word says that the oil tank is no more and has abandoned this world.

https://www.asoundeffect.com/sound-library/abandoned-oil-tank/

Abandoned Oil Tank

track 11 from the Return to Center album.

nils berg: bass clarinet
samuel hällkvist: line in guitar, midi trombone programming
johannes burström: electric bass
knut finsrud: kitchen stuff and wardrobe
henrik jöhnemark: life guidance

Still available on compact disc.


Krasta - P

The first episode in a new series of podcasts looking at – and listening to – the sounds of the world around us. The forthcoming instalments will look at all aspects of our noisy cosmos and how we listen to it, the stories we tell about it, and all the ideas, inventions, discoveries, possibilities and ideas that live in the realm of the audible. Written and produced by Tim Hinman. Supported by B&O PLAY

We kick off with the ambitiously titled episode "The Sound Of Life Itself" where we meet field recordist, sound ecologist and musician Bernie Krause.

01 – The Sound Of Life Itself

the Variety of Rhythm suite, part 4
recorded in Tokyo, Copenhagen, Halmstad & Gothenburg sep 2015- jan 16

Dick Lövgren, bass
Kumiko Takara, vibraphone
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, drums
Qarin Wikström, voice
Liesbeth Lambrecht, violin
Samuel Hällkvist, guitar

and quartet in Peniche, Portugal may 2015:
Paulo Chagas, sax
Adriano Orru, bass
Silvia Corda, objects
Samuel Hällkvist, guitar

www.VarietyOf.com
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Variety Of Rhythm Part 4: "the necker cube"

From Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Soundtrack
Baschet performance and recording by Nicolas Becker and Martin Stig Andersen
Original composition by Martin Stig Andersen (2017)
Assistant composer Andreas Frostholm Røeboe
Additional sound processing by Katrine Amsler
Recorded at the Association Structures Sonores Baschet, Saint Michel sur Orge, France
All rights reserved

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Soundtrack

Lontano

Lontano - Martin Stig Andersen

WORK IN PROGRESS
demo of SVEDJEBRUK for forthcoming album DEKORUM

SVEDJEBRUK

A trailer for the Isildurs Bane & Peter Hammill album In Amazonia. Release date: May 10, 2019.

In Amazonia trailer

Danish musician, composer & sound artist.

Abandoned Oil Tank

Katrine Amsler

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