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processed field records of an abandoned railway platform

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Excerpts of field recordings made 2020 - 2022 in Ireland and France

1. Funachree Coast, Co. Galway. (00:00 - 01:06)
Seals Calling, Barnacles, Water

2. Abandoned Barn, Portaferry, Co. Down (01:06 - 01:52)
Derelict Barn Moved by Wind, Amplified Tree Branches

3. Chemin du Trieux, Paimpol, Bretagne (01:52 - 02:52)
Crickets

4. Trieux River, Paimpol, Bretagne (02:52 - 03:50)
Snapping Crustaceans, Low Frequency Pulses

5. Windmill Hill, Portaferry, Co. Down (03:50 - 04:29)
Amplified Fishing Wire Stretched Vertically inside Windmill Tower

6. Trieux River, Paimpol, Bretagne (04:29 - 04:59)
Crab Eating a Periwinkle

7. Trieux River Port, Paimpol, Bretagne (04:59 - 05:34)
2 Pipes Resonating from Wind and Water


Equipment used:
DPA 4060 Microphones
Sound Devices MixPre6 Recorder
Aquarian H2A Hydrophone
JrF D Hydrophones
AKG C417 Microphones

Photograph by Louise Le Du at Funachree Coast in Co. Galway

Louise Le Du & Michael Speers Field Recording Excerpts

Costest

Poniakoga

* PLEASE USE SPEAKERS, NOT HEADPHONES, BECAUSE OF THE INNER-EAR PHENOMENA INVOLVED. *

Thomas Ankersmit’s new album for Shelter Press “Homage to Dick Raaijmakers” is an all-analogue electronic music composition inspired by legendary Dutch composer / electronic and tape music pioneer / multimedia artist Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013). The work takes inspiration from Raaijmakers’ music from the 1960s, his texts on sound composition like “Cahier M”, and notes on his own music.  On this recording Ankersmit plays Serge Modular feedback and sine/pulse/random generators, contact mic, and tape speed variation.

Mirroring some of Raaijmakers’ work, Ankersmit plays his Serge synthesizer as a kind of weather system. He references storms, thunder, crashing and falling objects, and distant radio transmissions in his electronic sounds, as well as dragging a contact mic across his equipment. Despite the abstract nature of the material, a sense of loss or mourning sometimes emerges from the music.

With his homage Ankersmit re-contextualizes Raaijmakers’ ideas about electric sound, composition, and spatial experience. Like Raaijmakers himself Ankersmit exclusively uses analogue devices, such as sine/pulse/random generators, modulators, filters, and especially feedback processes between them.

The music focuses on the sounds of raw electricity through creatively abused electronics, composing with analogue micro-sounds, and the creation of three-dimensional sound fields.

The piece also uses tones produced by the listener’s own ears, inspired by Raaijmakers’ thoughts on “holophonic” sound fields to be individually explored by the listener. With this phenomenon, the listener’s inner ears actively generate sounds that don’t exist in the recorded signal, and which can change with a small movement of the head.

“Homage to Dick Raaijmakers” was commissioned by Sonic Acts and was premiered live at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in February 2016. Ankersmit also dedicates the work to his father Thijl Ankersmit (1947-2016), who first demonstrated feedback to him. 

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker and pressed on 140g vinyl housed in reverse-board outer and inner sleeve. Out in September 2018 on Shelter Press on LP / CD / DL.

Homage to Dick Raaijmakers

THOMAS ANKERSMIT 'Homage To Dick Raaijmakers (Extract)' (SP096)

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This piece plays with the listener’s sonic expectations of what is familiar by fusing sounds, which a person can easily recognize, with new previously unheard sounds generated by algorithmic processing. By using various sounds and sonic artifacts that are common to the human experience, the work directs the listener to draw upon his inner visual associations with specific sounds and paint a mental soundscape of the acoustic experience. The introduction of other, unfamiliar processed sounds into the composition, invites the listener to break away from this familiar associative chain of acoustic phenomena and push the boundaries of his perception, in the process forming new sonic combinations and auditory experiences.
The musical piece was fully recorded and compiled in the Tonshoom Studio in April 2020. Some sounds were recorded using musical instruments, sound props, and speech; others were synthesized with SuperCollider. The final track was mixed down in Pro Tools and WFSCollider.

03. hybrid by Ivan Yerofeyev

Taken from 'Rhythmic Landscapes', out now on Takuroku - www.cafeoto.co.uk/takuroku

"I wanted to make something which reflected a scene of nature, outside of the city, somewhere which has become more and more attractive to be over the last few months... So I made these synthesised percussion sounds to be almost real and wooden, which are weaving in and out across different tempos, playing patterns that are somewhat regular, but always changing slightly. This is meant to be analogous with the dawn chorus, or any scene of nature where lots of different small events are happening, layered, at once... But I only had the dawn chorus, so I recorded that at 4am on Monday morning. These individual bird songs weaving in and out, repeating, different birds joining and leaving throughout. So it's meant to be 3 different sound environments, or imaginary frames of an environment at 3 different moments." 
- Cam Deas

TR049 - Cam Deas - 'Rhythmic Landscapes 2'

Artist: Various
Title: "Wound Without A Tear"
Cat: dpr005
Format: LPX2, Digital
Artwork by  J*ೄ꒱*˚, Angelina Nonaj
Mastered by Joseph Buchan

About: 
“No specific destination is intended upon. Perhaps by the time you have reached the end, you will have forgotten where you began”.

Distribution: 
EU, UK, ROW → Rubadub
Australia → Daisart

Various Artists, 'Wound Without A Tear' (preview)

Taken from the album 'World Wide World', out January 2021 on Low Company (LOW12). 

More information and pre-order:
https://lowcompany.co.uk/products/world-wide-world

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