Name: wind on a dead pine tree, Nida by maaheli
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Description: contact mic recording of wind on a dead pine tree at the Lithuanian coast.

very nice one! it reminds me of the sound on one of you experiments with ants which you showed us in Ukraine after the Experimental Fest in Kiev

contact mics make for some really interesting recordings. Great work

Nice contact recording, sounds like it was very cold!! :)

una resonancia profunda 

Composición y producción: Ángeles Rojas
Dirección: Agustina Crespo y Juan Cerono
Voces: Ensamble Vocal UNTREF (EVU)
Cuencos: Maria Sol Taberner y Daniel Brower

Templo Escondido, Museo Santa Felicitas 17.11.19

Buenos Aires, Argentina

[ENG]

a deep resonance (for healing and moving sounds)

Composition and production: Ángeles Rojas
Conductors: Agustina Crespo and Juan Cerono
Voices: Ensamble Vocal UNTREF (EVU)
Singing Bowls: Maria Sol Taberner and Daniel Brower

Templo Escondido, Museo Santa Felicitas 17.11.19

Buenos Aires, Argentina

una resonancia profunda

Improvising with Lekko into Cocoquantus into Cosmos, into a mixer with BIM and BAM on sends and BOUM for compression

Cosmos Lekko Test2

ENGLISH TEXT FOLLOWS

Auf der CD Sprühweißquellgold verleih mir Flügel , 2022

Programmnotiz
Im Sommer 2015 verbrachte ich zwei Monate (Juli und August) in der NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Island. Jetzt, sechs Jahre später, habe ich ein elektroakustisches Stück komponiert, das ein wenig von Island inspiriert ist. Die Komposition besteht aus bearbeiteten Perkussionsklängen und unbearbeiteten Klängen (nur wenige Sekunden) von der CD „Duo Svanni – RÆTUR“ von Hildur Wågsjö Heimisdóttir und Júlia Traustadóttir Kondrup und der CD „Sounds of Island“ von Hafdis Bjarnadóttir.
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On the CD Sprühweißquellgold verleih mir Flügel , 2022

Program Note
In summer 2015 I spent two months (July and August) at the NES Artist Residency in Skagastrrönd, Iceland. Now, six years later, I created an electroacoustic composition, which is a little bit inspired by Iceland. The composition consists of edited percussion sounds and unedited sounds (just a few seconds) of the CD „Duo Svanni – RÆTUR“ by Hildur Heimisdottir and Julia Traustadottir and of the CD "Sounds of Iceland" by Hafdis Bjarnadottir.

I finished this work in January 2022

Sprühweißquellgold verleih mir Flügel - Electroacoustic Music

The spring dawn chorus recorded in the heart of the Forêt des Cèdres du Luberon. This cedar forest is one of the most unusual of the forests and green spaces of the Luberon massif, given the oriental origin of these large trees. At an altitude of 727 metres, the cedar forest was originally planted with seeds from the Algerian Middle Atlas back in 1861. Due to it's altitude and distance from major towns and roads, the forest is very quiet and makes for a perfect recording location.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 II + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040 (ORTF)
02.05.2022

Dawn Chorus - Forêt des Cèdres du Luberon, France

4 Sep 2022

Last year I captured calls from two chatting adult Whooper Swans at the Bothnian coast. This year they were accompanied by two juveniles. One night the conversation between the swans was intense, it almost felt listening to a concerto.  

Umeå commune, Västerbotten County (63.39 N, 19.54 E)

Primo-EM172s

03_06.14

Whooper Swan concerto

“This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.” 
 (Don Draper, Mad Men)

Call Back Carousel is an audio time-travelogue, a slideshow of the mind’s eye - projecting Kodachrome memories directly into the listeners’ mind by means of sound alone. It is a way of travelling without ever having to leave the home. A vicarious vacation for the imagination. Pure audio escapism.

Each episode is based on a found tape of a pre-recorded slideshow commentary. Most of these tapes were made by amateur tape recording enthusiasts and hobbyist photographers of the 60s and 70s. Their recorded commentaries would at one time have been used in conjunction with a sequence of 35mm slides but only the taped voices now remain. The recordings themselves come from my own archive of found reel-to-reel tapes that I have collected over the past twenty years.

Scotland, 1971

Argine is the result of opposite feelings led by the desire for change. 2022 has been a dense year and the sound of this work could not fail to reflect this adjective. 
I'm pleased to introduce the album using the words included in the cd sleeve. Thanks for listening… 

"On my tiptoes I loosened the screws of parched gears, leaving it to fate to bring down my fake ivory skeleton with a gust of wind. 
My name has been written among the creeks of the time - every name should be like this - but no one has ever reminded me of it. The nuances are imperceptible letters that curve the gaze, small gems given away in the Pisces era. 
Last night I saw tomorrow in a succession of twelve blades, like a pond that suddenly turns into an ocean of tears. It is that smell that penetrates the senses just before the rain arrives, the muddy scent of burnt silk. 
I play arpeggios of inconsistent notes with the unfinished idea of an abstract smile, colored sketches that are linked to my abandoned dreams, thrown into the basement of memory. Timidly I open that door and I sit on the antique armchair in the center of the room. Beyond the walls there is only the mute din of nothing calling me, but I do not answer and with bare feet I wait for the water to rise, touching my skin. 
What is a metamorphosis if not the suffering of a new life? I vomit golden placenta and beg my shadow not to go away. I shake her hand that slowly indulges at the crossroads and, at dawn, a hill of snow-covered cedars turns into my new dwelling. 
Today it is the precious metal that I fold without hurting myself, shiny and unscratchable. Tomorrow I will see my bloody shadow again and among crystal fragments I will dance with him again as a gift that I will repeat until my peaceful farewell." Francis Gri 

Credits
releases November 27, 2022 

- Composed and recorded in 2022 
- Cello on track 5 by Piergiorgio Storti 
- Mixing & Production: Francis Gri 
- Mastering: Francis Gri 
- Artwork: Francis Gri

KS62 | FRANCIS GRI Argine "Basement of Memory"

Frogs in the first weeks of activity of the year. It was the warmest night so far, unusually high and although I went to the lake's edge, they were so loud that they could be heard from a long distance. This is also a place to see and hear herons and sometime storks, but this night it was all for the frogs.
I was testing out a Zoom F3 for the second time.

Frogs in the Countryside

contact mic recording of wind on a dead pine tree at the Lithuanian coast.

wind on a dead pine tree, Nida

for Piano and electronics through transducers 
Mariangela Vacatello, piano
Mike Solomon, sound design
12.06.2017 Festival MANIFESTE-Ircam - Paris - Centre G.Pompidou        live recording

Entr'ouvert

Edited and remastered version of Habala, first published in 2018. 
Made with passion and modular synths.

Habala

habala

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.

wind on a dead pine tree, Nida

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