A robin (Erithacus rubecula) among other birds (black-capped warbler, Gray flycatcher...) at dawn.

Nagra Ares BB+ · Sennheiser MKH8020 · AB

220628 · 5:15am · Bois De Toulx · Creuse · France · A robin at dawn

ENG: Recording inside a bunker of the Civil War trenches "Los Pilones", in Rubielos de la Cérida. Walking through the trenches, feeling the wind whip around every corner, it is inevitable to remember what happened there and what, unfortunately, continues to happen in other conflicts today. Let this recording be a cry against all wars...

ESP: Grabación en el interior de un búnker perteneciente a las trincheras de la Guerra Civil “Los Pilones”, de Rubielos de la Cérida. Al recorrerlas a pie sintiendo el viento azotando cada rincón es inevitable rememorar lo que allí se vivió y lo que, desafortunadamente, seguirá viviéndose en otros conflictos en la actualidad. Sirva esta grabación como un grito en contra de todas las guerras…

Sound of the wind in the Civil War trenches of Rubielos de la Cérida

Arrivée des Grues cendrées sur le lac de Puydarrieux, dans les Hautes-Pyrénées, un 6 décembre 2023. Elles arrivent par petits groupes qui communiquent entre eux et génèrent des vocalises de celles déjà en place. Silencieusement, quatre Chevreuils passent à côté des Grues. Canard colvert et Chevalier guignette s'entendent dans cette cacophonie, ainsi qu'un lointain hélicoptère.
Tascam DR05X et parabole Wildtronics 

Hautes-Pyrénées

Arrivée crépusculaire des Grues cendrées sur le lac de Puydarrieux, un 6 décembre 2023

In a summer night in Morvan, a duet of two tawny owls with great green bush crickets and wood crickets.

Tawny owls duet in summer - recorded in Morvan (France) w/ Gregoire Chauvot

This unedited excerpt from a longer Night Listening recording begins at 03:35 (ACDT).

The background hush is a combination of a variable light breeze through adjacent but relatively distant native forest, and the sound of a distant creek flowing through pastures.

Recorded on the land of the Peramangk people.

2023.12.22 Night Listening. Night Pastures. Summer Solstice.

Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

Portions Transparent/Opaque (2014/23) 

IC-IIG excerpt recording

Ilan Volkov, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, London
July 24th, 2023

Lamb BBCSSO Portions IC IIG July23 Excerpt

Cold nights and warmer sunny days causes stress on thick lake ice. As the ice freezes and melts on a daily basis, periodic cracking and pinging sounds can be heard, sometimes quite dramatically. This track is edited from an all night recording made at a lake in south Estonia, a "greatest cracks" if you will, from more than 6 hours of material.

Cracking Lake Ice

Chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
13.04.2024 20:40
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240413 treefrog chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

Barbara Lüneburg - Violin
Martin Mallaun - Zither

live recording of the world premiere at Essl Museum (Klosterneuburg, Austria), 22.10.2014

http://www.peterjakober.com/
http://www.martinmallaun.com/projekte/lueneburg_mallaun
http://www.barbara-lueneburg.com/


wieder (for violin, zither and live electronics): Peter Jakober (*1977)

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

If you have the Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones CD/book set, introduced by Tom Waits and nicely produced by Ellipsis Arts, you've already heard the shortened version of this song. This  post is of the original, longer version of Silence the Tongues of Prophecy.

Always fascinated by synthetic speech, as soon as the tech became available (early 1980's) I began building human voice synthesizers. In this recording I use an instrument built around the vintage SP0256-AL2 IC. 

The instrument, in fact, uses two SP0256-AL2s to create a stereo human voice synthesizer. Originally named the "R.A.P." (pre-dates popular rap music and stood for Readily Available Phonemes), I've since re-named it after discovering its circuit-bent personality: the Subliminal Chant Generator.

In the text sheet accompanying the IC I noticed a statement something like, "The SP0256-AL2 needs the control of an external microprocessor to concatenate allophones into words." Immediately I thought, "nah." 

After all, address lines are only voltage levels. I wanted to build a machine with which I could activate allophones manually, by pressing keys on a keyboard, a modern version of the classic 1940's Bell Labs Voder talking machine. 

I did that, and with the addition of the final bending of the circuit (allowing bits to float) the vast realm of subliminal chant appeared.

Here, however, the Subliminal Chant Generator operates in its more overt personality, delivering allophones with clear certainty. The subliminal aspect of the voice synthesis is not presented in this recording but will be in an upcoming post of songs from "Voice of America," a cassette album from my old Sound Theater catalog.

Joining the  Subliminal Chant Generator in this post is one of my first incantors (I'd not yet written about the design, at the time of the recording they couldn't be heard elsewhere). 

That's all you need to know to understand what you'll hear. If you'd like to know more about the instrument, check-out my Facebook post of Dec. 2, 2015 for an up-dated excerpt from my EMI article, "The Subliminal Chant Generator."

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

Percussionist. Improviser. Performer. Occasionally composer and field recordist. Co-founder of the ensemble]h[iatus. Co-founder and curator of Le Bruit de la Musique festival. Artistic adviser of Association Ryoanji Épicentre.

220628 · 5:15am · Bois De Toulx · Creuse · France · A robin at dawn

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