Name: portrait of a sounding object II (water tower) by maaheli
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: Sound action recorded at the great "cactus" water tower in Mooste, Estonia. This unused water tower has an amazing resonant sound and can be played as an experimental instrument. It has a long history already of being used for experiments and performances. You can watch the video version here: https://vimeo.com/117737969

Fantastic John! I need a longer version!! :) It almost sounds like there is Tibetan chanting in the background!

oh you rusty hollow bowl of sacral rust...how beauty it is ...reminds me of guitarstrings played with a bow too

amazing, and at same time transcendent. Love it! Thank You

This is definitely a polyphonic instrument! Buy that tower ! :)

On the shore of the Lac du Der at night, a talkative Red fox meets a pack of responsive Common cranes.

Recorded with Mélia Roger on November 5th 2022 around 9:30pm.

Lom Usi Pro AB in PCM M10
Drop rig excerpt.

Illustration : Grues trompettant, Robert Hainard

Cranes and Fox dialogue - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

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.

Lux, a deconstruction via live electronics of some orchestral material.
The main audio samples used for the performance have been extracted from a recording and transformed live.
Please listen at a very low volume so that the sound come from everywhere in the room.
Recording date: 31/12/2023
Personnel: Alessandro Fogar - Live electronics

Release date:
1 January 2024

Thousand of sand fleas (talitrus saltator) were eating a large jellyfish on the beach at Oleron island (France). We put 2 hydrophones inside to listen. We can hear the fleas jumping around but also the waves from the inside perspective of the jellyfish.

Recorded with 2 Aquarian H2a on a Mixpre 6-II with Grégoire Chauvot at Oleron island in 2022.

Thousand of fleas eating a jellyfish - w/ Grégoire Chauvot

The close action of a pair of Ural Owls was so fascinating that I failed to notice the display of northern lights. 3.03.2024, Saueaugu, Estonia.
The noise from Tallinn-Tartu high traffic motorway.

Ural Owls and Northern Lights

The clip was recorded on the Silver Bank, part of the Sanctuary for the Marine Mammals of the Dominican Republic. It includes distant humpback whale song. The highlight is the much louder and closer sounds that were being vocalized during a competitive interaction. This was a confrontation between five male humpbacks as they competed with each other to win a position as "escort" to an available female. The hope for the escort is that she will accept him as a potential mate.

Male Humpback Whale Competitive Group Vocalizations Silver Bank, D.R.

The first eleven minutes of the recording document the gradual approach of the storm from the northwest; the remainder of the recording, its arrival and passing overhead, travelling towards the southeast.

2023.11.28 Thunderstorm (from a Balcony)

Every morning, at 9 o'clock, from August 30, 2023 to September 8, 2023, I was in different parts of Kirkenes to record the sound of the ferry coming from Tromsø. I found out that the ferry always sounds different, sometimes lower, sometimes higher, from different places in the city, also it can be heard differently - sometimes it blends in with the surroundings and sometimes it comes to the foreground.

The ferry horns in this collage were made:
August 30 and 31, 2023, September 6, 7, 8, 2023 at 9am, in Kirkenes, Norway.

The Ferry Horns (August 30 And 31, 2023, September 6, 7, 8, 2023, Kirkenes, 9 a.m.)

Mooring of the ferry. Kirkinås, Norway, September 8, 2023
This field recording was made on a stereo pair of omnidirectional microphones and a pair of hydrophone to record the ferry's engine.

Mooring Of The Ferry. Kirkinås, Norway, September 8, 2023

Sound action recorded at the great "cactus" water tower in Mooste, Estonia. This unused water tower has an amazing resonant sound and can be played as an experimental instrument. It has a long history already of being used for experiments and performances. You can watch the video version here: https://vimeo.com/117737969

portrait of a sounding object II (water tower)

Large pig frogs lead the croaking chorus of multiple species searching for mates in the flooded saw grass prairie along PaHaOkee Road in Everglades National Park, Florida. Southern cricket frogs "clack-clack" in background.Wide stereo field recorded in ORTF with pair of Line Audio CM3 cardioid microphones feeding a Sound Devices MixPre 3 recorder. February 2018.

Pig Frogs Pa Hay Okee

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.

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