Name: THE ECSTASY OF ST THERESA by Linda O Keeffe
Duration: 11 min 50 s
Description: track 3 on album Metamorphosis and Praxis,

curious mixes of textures, granular synthesis - reminds me a little of Wishart's Globalalia. A sense of the voice with out a specific understanding.

This recording was made in response to a prompt from La Meme Young as part of the LMY Patrons Monthly Project #1, and was also submitted as part of the Presque Tout project. 

Montreal (QC) - April 7, 2021, 3:54pm
Alleys are a defining feature of urban life in Montreal, and during the pandemic I've become especially sensitive to the gradual changes that take place in the alley behind my apartment building, which I watch from my balcony. Last summer, I noticed a Palestinian woman would often stop to pluck a few grape leaves from the vine growing on a neighbor's fence. The activities of the local squirrels and cats became daily entertainment. But the most dominant sound, at least when the weather is nice, is the boombox of the old man who lives across the alley. Forget about the groundhog; once this guy appears, winter is over. And once he stops wearing his shirt, you know it's summer. It was about 15 °C the day of this recording, almost 10 degrees higher than average, so I cracked open the window and made this recording. The man across the alley always plays awesome music, so I’m glad I captured some of that vibe, which also attests to the diversity of this neighborhood, which was built in the 1950s and has always had one of the highest percentages of foreign-born population anywhere in Canada. 

The first thing I hear is common bird song, probably sparrows.  The steady hum of automobiles on a nearby highway ebbs and flows on the edge of perception. A lighter flicks, and the door clicks shut. The clinks and clacs of kitchen sounds are faintly audible. Suddenly a radio is turned on, a hypnotic bassline and hand drum rhythm vamping while some sort of Middle Eastern horn solos energetically. The engine of a plane overhead is loud enough to be clearly heard; we’re right in the flight path of the airport. The song continues on for a while before changing, as vocals enter in a language I can’t recognize. Greek maybe, but the melismatic singing sounds more Arabic or Turkish. More kitchen noises become apparent, perhaps the clearing of plates. As the ninth minute is ending, a large automobile passes on the far side of the street. The bird song begins to increase in density, almost as if responding to the horn and vocalist which have increased in tempo. Some loud seagulls become audible towards the end of the recording, first screeching in the distance but coming closer, almost right overhead.  The gull reappears after a while, maybe it is circling, no longer shrieking but still crying out in almost regular intervals, moving further away. The birds pick up again. The door opens, and the recording fades out.

Montreal alleyway on the first nice afternoon of spring

This is a recording of some interactions on a black grouse lek in the highlands of Scotland. 

It was recorded with a Sony M10 and a matched pair of Clippy EM172 mics.

AVIEMORE  - BLACK GROUSE LEK - EARLY MORNING - VERY CLOSE COOING AND HISSES 2.0 M10

track 3 on album Metamorphosis and Praxis, 

THE ECSTASY OF ST THERESA

Deep Wireless 11 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2015 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The contents of the album were curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme HEAR now HERE. 

Also check out Deep Wireless 9 and 10 on Soundcloud. 

Cave is taken from an in-process album of experimental music inspired by the work 4’33’’ by John Cage. Each song on Champagne's album 4'33" is entirely composed using a “silent room tone” that was previously recorded in a space that we collectively consider as calm or silent: anechoic chamber, mortuary, library, church, cave, etc. 

Julien Champagne is a Canadian visual artist, composer and art historian. His practice tends to explore the malleability of sound, landscape and everyday life objects, while often referring to the canonical works of the 20th century. His work has been shown in Canada, the United States, France and Australia.

Julien Champagne - 4'33'' (Cave)

Deep Wireless 11 Online Album was produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2015 edition of the annual Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art. The contents of the album were curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme HEAR now HERE.

Also check out Deep Wireless 9 and 10 on Soundcloud.

Basketball is one of the most played sports on the planet today. Its practice consists in throwing, dribbling and passing the ball, which produces lots of recognizable sounds. These sonorities are very rich and fertile in order to generate a “cinema for the ear”. The sound recordings, done on the Basketball court, have been manipulated and denaturalized through excessive digital transformations, thus creating some glitches on the original sounds.

In 2014, Sebastien has started his PhD research and he is currently working on the hybridization of electroacoustic and electronic dance music with his research director Monty Adkins at the University of Huddersfield, in the UK. Sebastien is a 2014 winner in the CEC’s annual JTTP project. To listen: https://soundcloud.com/sebastienlavoie1


Sebastien Lavoie - Basketball Glitch

The tree that sings

i found this rusted pipe on the beach and decided to listen through it.
cronulla.
12.7.16.

The pipe which howled by the sea

Making Music from Rubbish! 
In collaboration with The School Bus Project & Refugee Youth Services, a selection of Sudanese Rap, poetry, and percussion from some very talented youths.

24. Jungle Beats

A walk in Mexico City with Amanda Gutierrez and her mother Carmen Vazques in which they speak of the fear of femicide in Mexico, where 9 women are killed every day. The piece is part of my longterm "Shadow-walks" series, in which I retrace the person's walk solo, singing my impressions and memory of their walk.

9 Women (excerpt)

Stereo excerpt from Amie Slavin's 2012 Sound Installation : Other Ranks - 

This clip features actor Jim Broadbent reading 'Naming of Parts' by Henry Reed, set amongst voices of present day soldiers, and sits just under halfway through the forty minute piece - for more information on Other Ranks (currently on-show at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds), please visit : http://goo.gl/zfl0S

OtherRanks : Naming of Parts

In the time of social distancing, and closed schools and workplaces, people are getting out into nature more and more. To experience nature in a new and perhaps even deeper way, try a soundwalk, for which the goal is learning to listen and understand nature through sound. My soundwalk takes you through six exercises to train your ears and asks you to reflect on your experience as you practise listening. Enjoy!
Sharon Gill
(c) April 2020

Soundwalk

Dr. Linda O Keeffe is a sound artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is head of the School of Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She is founder of the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation, Editor-in-Chief for the Interference Journal, a journal of audio cultures. She Co-Founded the Irish Sound Science and Technology Association in 2009 and was President from 2015-17.

O Keeffe has had works performed and exhibited in Asia, the USA, Brazil, Canada and Europe. In 2018 O Keeffe was awarded the Arts Council of England international travel award to undertake a large research project which included touring Brazil giving talks, performances and organising workshops, symposia and outreach activities. During this time she released two albums (album 1, album 2) and published a paper, Applying Feminist Methodologies in the Sonic Arts: Sound Walking as a Process, full paper here. Other recent works include; an exhibition at the New Art Exchange (NAE) Gallery Nottingham 2017, a commission for the Ormston Gallery as part of EV&A festival in Ireland 2016, Murder Machine, a solo exhibition for the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in 2014, ‘Spaces of Sound and Radio Spaces’, and in 2017 was commissioned to be part of the creative team developing an interactive and immersive theatre production in Manchester at The Horsefall space. Her work is predominantly sound based with a focus on installation and performance as well as soundscape studies. She has created works for radio, dance and public installation projects. In 2010 she released an album with Farpoint recordings, Metamorphosis and Praxis and collaborative albums with Artificial Memory Trace in 2012 and 2017. Her written publications include, ‘Thinking Through New Methodologies-Sounding out the city with teenagers’, published by the Qualitative Sociological Review (2015), ‘Memories of sound: socioeconomic, community and cultural soundscapes of Smithfield, Dublin from the 1950s’ (2016) in the 2nd Ed. of the Auditory Culture Reader, and Reclaiming Public Space: Sound and Mobile Media Use by Teenagers, published in the International Journal of Communication (2015).

THE ECSTASY OF ST THERESA

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