Name: evening shore, birds and ships at Paljasaare by maaheli
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Late June at the coast in north Tallinn; gulls, geese and swans cluster in a bay by Paljasaare park. Deep drones from passenger ferry engines are ever present as they pass to and from Helsinki.

Exosphere

This is my submission for this week's Disquiet Junto assignment inspired by the work of Éliane Radigue.

More on this 595th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Filter Progression (The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0595/

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Agediale Ruin [disquiet0595]

A male European nightjar delivers his strange motor like song from one of his favorite song post before moving to the next one, ending his trill by a joyful wing clap.

Lyon countryside, late spring.
2023-06-10, 22h

Lom Usi Pro, Sony PCM M10

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Illustration : John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

European nightjar, Song and wing clap - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/ephemera

Ephemera

Their Shadows Went Before Them

sound art series based on the poetry collection "Stories Untold"

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people were falling in the streets
shivering in agony, for what they saw would hit them
like a bolt, scalding them from within,
the Great War was now inside them

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I am buried
with you, and the others
in the trenches of shame, all piled up
& covered with sickening laughter.
Our eyeballs are rubbed with injustices,
ears deafen by rumble of terror,
hearts numbed with trepidation,
limbs soaked in repugnant lies,
minds bleached by virtual ordure.
They murder, they rape, they rob.
They bury. Me, you,
and the others.
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this 21-minute long sound work is a forest tale about war, re-imagined from the perspective of the land that witnessed centuries of socio-cultural turmoil. tamed nature versus wilderness, contaminated versus protected land, the Iron Curtain belt saw some significant changes – from being a brutal barrier between East and West strewn with mine fields, to becoming a highly protected European natural heritage.

the somewhat tense, suffocating and dark-sounding atmosphere of this piece reflects my feelings on possible relations between former and present conflicts, and alludes to the harsh consequences necro-politics of the past are imposing on contemporary society.

the stunning forest microbiome researched in this work is now part of the European Green Belt, formerly the Iron Curtain borderlands between Austria and Czech Republic. 

released September 14, 2023

sounds gathered during SHAPE+ musikprotokoll residency, July 2023, kindly hosted by Kulturzentrum – Garage Druzba, Harrachstal.

all sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone built by Jez riley French
mastering La Plant Studio

Bandcamp

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

A pack of wild Eurasian wolf howls after sunset in mountain forest of Vercors.
One male starts howling, quickly joined by the others in what might most probably be a rallying cry.

We can hear, behind the stridulating insects (Upland Green Bush-cricket), European edible dormouse squeaking and throwing things from the top of the trees.

Vercors, France, Late summer.
2023-09-15 23:30

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Illustration CC0

Eurasian Wolf, Wild pack howling in the mountains - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

Preview of the second EP by https://soundcloud.com/les-antonymes
To support us, please buy the release -> https://antonindebemels.bandcamp.com/album/doctobre

With Hughes Devos (bugle), Christophe Seval (synth), Philippe Van Bellinghen (cello), Olivier Taskin (drums), Antonin De Bemels (groovebox) and poems by Shantala Pèpe and Jean-Philippe Convert

Artwork by Stéphane Jossart

D'octobre

Les Antonymes - D'octobre EP (preview)

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.

yesno

"premonitions" by @alenakoroleva [fom10]
CS/DL : f-o-m.bandcamp.com/album/premonitions

“Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters.” — Alëna Korolëva 

Something is afoot, the Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator, Alëna Korolëva tells us in her new soundscape composition “premonitions”. American toads and water beetles set things in motion before the long-form piece journeys through a multitude of field recordings and non-human voices in a quasi-cinematographic fashion. Korolëva layers and manipulates sounds from the real into a sonic chimaera which mutates concrete ambiances into vaporous surrealities through the modes of collage. A storm blankets the soundscape, things grow quieter. Distant parallels with Luc Ferrari’s "musique anecdotique" come to mind, yet here the piece materializes in an acoustic docu-fiction of some sort, that takes the form of a waking dream. Various scenes, ranging from the mundane to the uncanny, unfold in eardrums exposing an underlying sense of earthly melancholy. A weight lurks throughout while winds, pigs, chickens, and mechanical apparatus weave into a strange agitated tapestry. A kettle whistles, a cat meows – Korolëva sprinkles the gloom with touches of humor and audible senses of home. Trumpeter swans are joined by a trumpeter human; Chayka Chekhov responds to the avian songs in a interspecies dialogue – echoing Jim Nollman’s “Playing Music With Animals”. Environments cascade into a finale droned out by truck horns. Their ringings and animal cries swell in a somber abstraction bearing the weight of a presentiment. “What does the future hold?” we ask ourselves throughout the album as we dissolve in imbrications of positionings, emanating from one another like stacking dolls. Poly-layered, “premonitions” engages in play, in negotiation with the disparate spaces and voices of a troubled world as if it created harmonious discord to decipher the ominous clouds gathering in the horizon.

C30 — limited edition of 60 
duration: 28’56’’ — piece repeats on both sides 
recorded, photographed, and composed by alëna korolëva 
trumpet improvisation by chayka chekhov 
mastered by mathieu bonnafous 
tape production by headless duplicated tapes 
published by forms of minutiae — fom10 — 2024

CS / DL

alëna korolëva — premonitions [fom10]

Late June at the coast in north Tallinn; gulls, geese and swans cluster in a bay by Paljasaare park. Deep drones from passenger ferry engines are ever present as they pass to and from Helsinki.

evening shore, birds and ships at Paljasaare

Researching, composing and performing with sound for over 20 years using methods of field recording, kinetic sculptures, electro-acoustic creation, filmmaking, improvisation, group workshops and exercises in listening. Based in Estonia and work as a program and technical coordinator for MoKS, a non-profit artist-run center. My compositions have been published on international labels such as: and/OAR, SIRR, Mystery Sea, Staalplaat, Semperflorens, Erewhon, Intransitive, Cut, Elevator Bath, CMR, Orogenetics, Pale Disc and others.

evening shore, birds and ships at Paljasaare

maaheli

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