Name: A Pierre (Luigi Nono) by Kees Tazelaar
Duration: 9 min 21 s
Description: 1992 Holland Festival performance, IJsbreker Amsterdam, Harry Sparnaay contrabass clarinet, Harrie Starreveld contrabass flute, Kees Tazelaar live electronics.

Impressive and beautifully rich in sound and detail. Glad to find your work.

This is a stereo excerpt of my multichannel installation "Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis". The installation is an exploration of the underwater soundscape of the North Sea. For this piece I recorded at the southern (mainly coast of Belgium) and northern (coast around Bergen in Norway) borders of the North Sea. 

The North Sea is the busiest and therefore loudest sea in the world. The installation researches the difficult relationship between biological sounds and man made noise. 

"Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis" was awarded an honourable mention by the 2021 Sound Of the Year Awards in the "Composed with Sound" category. 

More information about the piece can be found here:
http://stijndemeulenaere.be/zijlijn.html

Zijlijn stereo Excerpt

Two black woodpeckers hammering in duel, a wren can be heard in the background. 

Recorded :  24.03.2022,   3 pm.
Location:   Siebentischwald, Augsburg/Bavaria - Germany
ZOMM F8 - RODE NT5 MP - ORTF - Sourcefile: 96 KHz

Black Woodpecker - Wren Wood - Ambient - Forest - Field Recording - Nature

It's a calm morning by the river Kapamba in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. A few cicadas are winding down their night calls, making room for the daytime sounds of the savanna. Long version at: https://youtu.be/xnGuW1RLgBk

A river in the savanna

Hippos and an obnoxiously loud cicada call at dusk in the savanna. Recorded with Sony PCM A10 and Lom mikroUsi microphones. Listen to more recordings from the African savanna at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGyXE47HzQ&list=PLCRlYmmK1sqpnPimVGFNUhmt1WtYhnsZc

Loud Cicada At South Luangwa

"Cloudbank" was inspired by a photo I took of clouds (with a barely noticeable rainbow) over the homes behind us. I used Spitfire Audio LABs sounds.

© 2022_music & art_ROGER HOOPER MUSIC

Cloudbank

Thunderstorm in Amazonia, Ecuado, a small selection from a longer recording.

Ecuador Thunderstorm Sample

Ecuador Thunderstorm

A representative abridgement of an attended recording that runs from 02:33 to 06:44. Edited without processing. 96/32 > 48/24.

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2022.09.11 Pine Forest. Full Moon Night. Early Spring.

1992 Holland Festival performance, IJsbreker Amsterdam, Harry Sparnaay contrabass clarinet, Harrie Starreveld contrabass flute, Kees Tazelaar live electronics.

A Pierre (Luigi Nono)

This track features the haunting vocalizations of the Common Loon. The ambient "roar" you'll hear is the sound of gentle night breezes swishing through the treetops of large Red Pines nearby. (One critical listener calls this element "sublime.") Recorded late May, 2008. Skies were mostly clear; winds were light and variable; temp. was in the low 50s (F).

Midnight Loons - Wagner Lake

Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) drumming in coniferous forest. Alajõe, Estonia. 10. April 2020, 6:32 AM.

Musträhn, Black Woodpecker

September 2016, The Matang Range, Sarawak, Borneo.

Pool ( Dusk to night )

Kees Tazelaar (*1962) followed courses in Sonology in Utrecht and The Hague, and later studied composition under Jan Boerman at the Royal Conservatoire. He has been teaching at the Institute of Sonology since 1993 and has been head of the institute since 2006. His electronic music features a combination of formalisation, richness of sound and a compositional approach to sound spatialisation.

As well as a composer, Kees Tazelaar is a historian, who has specialised in the early years of electronic music in the Netherlands and Germany. He has twice been the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, where he earned his PhD in 2013 with the dissertation "On the Threshold of Beauty: Philips and the Origins of Electronic Music in the Netherlands 1925–1965" (ISBN 978-94-6208-065-2).

www.keestazelaar.com

A Pierre (Luigi Nono)

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