Recorded in my garden (Creuse, France) on October 25th, 2022 at noon. Only one group of common cranes going South.

Unfortunately, the day was a bit windy.

Recorded with a Nagra Ares BB+, a pair on Sennheiser MKH8020, AB.

221025 · Noon · Passage of a group of common cranes (Grus grus)

Prises de son depuis 2004.
Field recordings since 2004.
"J'enregistre souvent aux mêmes endroits, mais je n'entends jamais la même chose."
"I often record at the same place, but I never hear the same sound."

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.

João Castro Pinto is a Portuguese sound artist, composer and sound designer interested in the art of composing silence with sounds.
    
He has graduated in Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon (F.C.S.H.) and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in Computer Music @ U.C.P. / C.I.T.A.R. - Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts.

João Castro Pinto is a composer released and endorsed by MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL's - MIC.PT (Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre) & MISO RECORDS.

João Castro Pinto’s sound work ranges between: field recordings / soundscape composition, dense droning, noise, electroacoustic, acousmatic & experimental electronic genres. 

J. Castro Pinto attended masterclasses in electroacoustic music composition with Francis Dhomont, François Bayle, Barry Truax, John Chowning, Simmon Emmerson, Trevor Wishart, Morton Subotnick, Annette Vande Gorne, Adrian Moore, etc...

Castro Pinto presented his work, regularly, since the mid 90´s, in performances / concerts / appearances, all over Europe, the U.S.A., South America and Asia, in cities such as: N.Y.C., IOWA, PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON D.C., MOSCOW, SAINT PETERSBURG, BUENOS AIRES, MORELIA, SEOUL, PARIS, LONDON, BERLIN, COLOGNE, DORTMUND, MANCHESTER, MUNCHEN, VIENNA, KLOSTERNEUBURG, GRAZ, KRAKÓW, BOLOGNANO, ATHENS, UDEN, LEEDS, BIRMINGHAM, ČESKÉ B., etc... and in festivals and venues such as: INA-GRM MULTIPHONIES / BANC D'ESSAI (FRANCE), L'ESPACE DU SON FESTIVAL (BELGIUM), INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC CONFERENCE (USA), Phill Niblock's EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION (USA), SOUND - IMAGE (UK), MANTIS ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (UK), VISIONES SONORAS (MEXICO), AUDIO ART FESTIVAL (POLAND), WIEN MODERN (AUSTRIA), ORF (AUSTRIAN NATIONAL RADIO : KUNSTRADIO RADIOKUNST), SAMMLUNG ESSL MUSEUM (AUSTRIA), PNEM SOUND ART FESTIVAL (NETHERLANDS), MUSLAB - INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC (ARGENTINA), SEOUL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC FESTIVAL (SOUTH KOREA), The U.I.M.A. - UNIVERSITY of IOWA MUSEUM of ART (USA), FEASt (Florida Electro-Acoustic Student) Festival (USA), MÚSICA VIVA ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (PORTUGAL), AVEIRO SÍNTESE ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (PORTUGAL), CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN CENTER FOR MODERN ART (PORTUGAL), CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM (PORTUGAL), CASA DA MÚSICA (PORTUGAL), FUNDAÇÃO SERRALVES - CASA DE SERRALVES (PORTUGAL), etc...

Conceived    and    directed    the "Hertzoscópio - Experimental & Transdisciplinary Arts Festival", dedicated to the divulgation of contemporary experimental music, video-art and intermedia (2003/ 2004). Was the Artistic Commissaire for HERTZ_extend#1 - Encounters of Experimental & Transdisciplinary Art, in 2005, in Barcelos.

Collaborates frequently with renowned Portuguese and foreign artists from the sound art / experimental and improv. music scenes such as: Hanna Hartman (SE), Tom Hamilton (USA), Dr. Karlheinz Essl (AT), Koji Asano (JP), Bernhard Loibner (AT), Michael Fischer (AT), Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (AT), Roel Meelkop (NL), Jos Smolders (NL), Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (VE), Philippe Lamy (FR), Gilles Aubry (CH), Thollem Mcdonas (USA), O.Blaat (JP), Nathan Fuhr (USA), Sei Miguel (PT), Carlos Zíngaro (PT), Rafael Toral (PT), Coti (GR.), D’Incise (CH), John Grzinich (EE), Anastasis Grivas (GR), Red Trio (PT), Blaise Siwula (USA), Jeremy Bernstein (USA), Kurt Ralske (USA), etc.

Released several recordings [solo pieces / albums, collaborations and compilations] by: MISO RECORDS (PT), Influx / Musiques et Recherches (Belgium), Unfathomless (Belgium), Hemisphäreの空虚 (Australia), Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland), OtO (Japan), Triple Bath (Greece), Sirr-ecords (PT), Creative Sources Recordings (PT), Cronica Electrónica (PT), Grain Of Sound (PT), Variz (PT) and Useless Poorductions (PT).

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221025 · Noon · Passage of a group of common cranes (Grus grus)

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