Dia da Aranha

Serpente - Ritos de Poeira (from Dias da Aranha, SOUK09)

DS163 - Will Guthrie & Jean-Luc Guionnet - '1.11.21 - Part 2'

Live Recording of the Talk at Zonneklopper, Brussels, on 30/4/22 during Oscillation Festival ::: Public Address.

Céline talks about how listening to music is conditioned by context, based on her own experience as a performer. Performing in a music festival, an art institution, a concert hall or a club are very different experiences, with different conditions, sets of rules and expectations. She's interested in questioning the cleavage this creates between audiences and how it is rooted in issues related to class, sex and race.

Céline Gillain is an artist whose work explores the meeting points between different fields of art and music such as performance, storytelling, experimental and electronic music, deconstructing the codes and hierarchies that govern them. Exposing the ever growing precarity of the artist, her work questions the mechanisms by which ideas are transformed into commodities in mainstream culture.
https://linktr.ee/CelineGillain

More Informations on the Festival's program:
www.oscillation-festival.be/2022/

Celine Gillain ::: How listening is conditioned by context (Talk)

Dobra voda is a small bay on the island of Silba. A remote beach is situated an hours walking distance from the only village on the island.

This mystical and completely secluded place was once a summer commune, gathering creative minds from Yugoslavia but also from all over Europe. A versatile art scene emerged, the one that preceded Ljubljana's alternative theatre scene, Rijeka's new wave and some of the most influential ex-Yu alternative bands; "[...] The music was coming from every single bush: violins, cellos, saxophones, trumpets, and, of course, mostly guitars [...]."

One of my dearest friends, Natasha Kadin, curator and cultural manager of SEA Silba Environment Art organised a wonderful exhibition in 2018 with found archive photos made by Marijan Blažina, one of the artists from the commune. Croatian multi-disciplinary artist and author Boris Greiner wrote more about this exhibition: www.silba-environment-art.hr/en/blog/boris-greiner-slikovne-poruke-s-dobre-vode/

I visited Dobre vode on a few occasions, but this particular time I wanted to record a sonic palimpsest, built from water memories and other environmental simulacra of this magical little bay. I recorded with hydrophones from various angles, listened to the interplay between water and salt and different geological formations. The movement of the pebbles from the sea bed, water sliding down the rocks and crevices, burying my "ears" under the sea bed but also inside the enormous piles of dry Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The Posidonia has a very high carbon absorption capacity, being able to soak up 15 times more carbon dioxide every year than a similar-sized piece of the Amazon rainforest.

Dobra voda bay is positioned to accumulate dry Posidonia once it is washed ashore. It is absolutely impossible to be still in those clouds of dry seaweed and be completely silent. Even so, I tried.

The sound piece is a mix of 16 chosen recordings placed in a dronesque metaphor of passing time. 

released August 25, 2022

All sounds recorded, edited and composed by Manja Ristić
Recorded during SEA Silba Environment Art Residence 2021
www.silba-environment-art.hr
Hydrophone built by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk
Mastering La Plant Studio Belgrade
laplantstudio.com

Dobra voda

August 25th, 2022

Bandcamp

One more to round out what has been a very busy year for Mole.

"Nothing had been heard for some time now...not a sound, and the animals had fallen into a deep sleep. The dishes were done, the fire burnt out. There sat an unfinished puzzle on the dining table, a messy pile of scrawled poems on the sideboard and a partially enjoyed novel strewn over the arm of a chair.

Yet in all of this quiet, a faint rumble and clatter began to sound. Not one of mechanical origin but certainly something moving closer...and most certainly in a hurry…"

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All music by The Sprigs
Images by Beverley Gooding
Inspired by Kenneth Graham’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’
Introductory text by The Sprigs
Additional text by Wesley Knowler included in cassette version.

BIS010 - The Sprigs - "Mole's Uninvited Guests"

Letter

Burning

Laenz - Burning

This month's mixtape opens with an intimate archival recording from the 1970s by an anonymous Czech outsider-folk singer who calls for an immediate end to animal cruelty. Around the constant repetition of a fragment from a poem by the anti-fascist Spanish poet Miguel Hernández, Katya Shirshkova and Yura Kuznetsov gradually deconstructs their composition. 

Liis Ring's pulsating ambient questions the true meaning of home, while the wailing sound of Elina Bolshenkova's accordion in On Hold is a testament to its true worth. Brno's Sky to Speak creates miniatures that move in between library music and tropicalia in their song Feather Palms. All this wrapped in a freshly released field recording featuring the works of Belgrade-born Manja Ristić, Toronto-based Alëna Korolëva and Prague-Berlin duo Veronika Svobodová and Pia Achternkamp.

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Caius Williams – 'Ame' (from 'Gwannach' - Otoroku, 2023)

North Canyon

These insect substrate-borne vibrations were recorded with laser doppler vibrometers from local plants in a wet meadow located in Gais, Switzerland. Laser vibrometers are able to detect the vibrational signals emitted by insects that travel through the surface of the plants in the meadow. Only two local insects could be identified by the signals they produced, and those were Aphropora major (a froghopper) and Sorhoanus assimilis (a leafhopper). Over 20 different insect signals were documented during the field study. Although their identity can not be revealed yet, we hypothesise that many of these signals belong to the Auchenorryncha suborder of insects, specialised in vibrational communication. The signals, emanating from the vibrational interactions within the local vibroscape, were extracted from 150 hours of recorded material collected over the course of August 8, 9, and 10, 2023. The research of vibroscapes in nature is rather recent and this was the first time that an alpine meadow was recorded.

In collaboration with @tremoneta (Juan José López Díez, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)

All recordings made on site by Juan José López Díez 
Editing and composition by Ludwig Berger
Installation by Ludwig Berger and Juan José López Díez
Photo by Juan José López Díez
Realized at the Festival KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE, Gais, Switzerland 2023

Ludwig Berger & Juan José López Díez - Vibroscape Of Hochmoor Gais (Excerpt)

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Ludwig Berger & Juan José López Díez - Vibroscape Of Hochmoor Gais (Excerpt)

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