Your 2021 Playback

Anne-F Jacques/Takamitsu Ohta, Oto to Secchi

section of a sound work constructed from sound recordings made with\in a WWII bunker

2020-21

Les Horribles Travailleurs

Photo made during a recording session

WWII bunker - Sound work 1

from the lost split with Travis Johnson http://www.discogs.com/Travis-Johnson-2-METEK-Pink-Money/release/3899402

METEK - Sunrise

Moments. An Hour. A day. A Summer

Modify The Ventriloquist

OP 7 Klanglandschaft 2

COLOR SQUAD RECORS 077/EP038

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/taking-life-seriously-ep

CSR077 - Eggshell Goblin - Taking Life Seriously EP - Decisons, Choices And Options

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

Distances

Rain

taken from ET-086
http://www.archive.org/details/ET-086

ET-086 | Stãżëca Calling

aleph - Stãżëca Calling (Excerpt) | ET-086

One of our favourite videos from OTO archive is a duo set by Makoto Oshiro and Takahiro Kawaguchi from Multitap Festival in 2014 . Embracing improvisation with a sense of mischief, the duo fill the space with motorised kinetic machines, hand-crafted instruments and a small mountain of inanimate miscellanea, transforming junk yard objects and erecting them into a hissing, buzzing and writhing rickety super structure.

Created at home on his own, Makoto has kindly presented this new work for us, rendering both the imaginative tactility and sense of wonder of his practice in hypnotic audio form:
"The sounds on this track are made by my hand-crafted instruments that I call "Kachi Kachi." They are quite simple; an electro-magnetic relay, which is an electronic component / physical switch driven by a coil and makes a "click (kachi)" sound, combined with a variable timer circuit that controls the frequency of the clicks. 

These small components are commonly displayed in front of many market stalls selling electronics in Tokyo's Akihabara area, and they are usually sold in different variations from large to small. I'm using three different types for different textures, and place them on materials that resonate such as wooden boards and boxes.

I think of them as acoustic oscillators, but at the same time, the outcome of the performance has a polyrhythmic, or parallel-rhythmic factor." - Makoto Oshiro

TR078 - Makoto Oshiro - 'Kachi Kachi'

DOB Gallery Belgrade October 13th >>> sound installation for the exhibition of drawings and paintings by Simonida Rajčević
http://simonidasimonida.com/

Strelice >>> Arrows >>> exhibition by Simonida Rajčević

Manja Ristić: Sonic Ontology of Negligence
7 Nov 2021–8 Jan 2021
FM exhibition, exhibition of 8-channel sound installation

7 Nov 2020 at 12.00 (noon) on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
10 Nov 2020 at 18.00 p.m. on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
18 Nov 2020 at 20.00 p.m. on programme Ars – radio exhibition opening

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Sonic Ontology of negligence is a continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation, and eventually “given over“ to Nature to reclaim the space. In the process of conceptualizing Sonic Ontology of negligence, Manja Ristić resided in places that were heavily exploited and forever changed by the human urge to build, comprising thousand years-old quarries as well as present-day mega-structures, abandoned as a result of corruption and consumerist socio-political turmoil. The nucleus of the compositional structure is devoted to abandoned construction building site of the Stožice mega-structure, while layers of mnemopoetic sonic imprints are derived from an old lime-stone quarries from the island of Korčula in South Dalmatia, such are Glogovac, Lenga, Defora and Vrnik, but also abandoned mineral mines and lime pits from Fruška gora in Vojvodina, North Serbia, and other sites such is the military compound placed in the middle of the Avala forest in the suburbs of Belgrade. The poetical accent is given to the dynamics and textures of waters and aquatic micro spaces, which are building the formative/reproductive environments in the process of re-establishing bio diversities.

Manja Ristić graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music and later also completed her post-graduate diploma in Solo-Ensemble Recital at the Royal College of Music, London. Besides performing in the field of instrumental electroacoustic music, her sound-related research is focused on an interdisciplinary approach to sound art, field recordings and experimental radio art.

Credits:
Artist: Manja Ristić
Curated by: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Katarina Radaljac
Translation and editing: Katja Kosi, Melita Silič
Public relations: Katarina Radaljac
Production: Cona, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2020
Venue: Steklenik gallery for sound bioacoustics and art, FM 88.8MHz, 3rd programme of Radio Slovenia – programme Ars

Exhibition is being part of the Acoustic Commons project support from the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

Manja Ristić: Sonic Ontology of Negligence (stereo version of an 8 channel sound exhibition)

From the latest self-release Starfish & the sonic tonalities
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-the-sonic-tonalities
The Absence started from listening to an old recording of the Wind Quintet by Serbian composer Ljubica Marić. After learning the composition well, I simply fell in love with the noise hidden in-between sounds produced by an old vinyl crackling and web compression. I made myself a little drone and soon realized the psycho-acoustic qualities of it. The narrative is wrapped around the noise pollution, from both below and above the Adriatic sea.

The Absence

Headphones are highly recommended. The most appropriate and natural listening levels would be somewhere between 45% to 55% of your sound equipment's volume levels. The quiet beginning gradually grows louder, and then slightly reduces again to a 'status quo'. The recording, as presented here, runs from approximately 05:30 to 07:25: from just before first light to after sunrise.

The first and second dawns of 2021 were very windy, here. But the third dawn was quite calm. I was able to make this uninterrupted recording at one of my favourite local listening places. It's a place I love to go walking; and, just as much, love to sit, to listen, and to look. A place for peace, inspiration, and healing. And, of course, also to record.

The recording begins very quietly, but very gradually increases in volume. I've omitted the first part of the recording, which is even quieter, although it contains a few interesting obscure episodes; and one very vocal nearby koala. I felt that most listeners would be impatient with nine or ten minutes of mainly 'silence', before the birds begin to sing.

Given the quietness of this beginning, there is some general background 'white noise'. In part, this noise is just natural environmental sound; no space with an atmosphere is ever 'absolutely silent'. But it also probably includes some self-noise of the microphones, given that the preamp gain levels were relatively high. Although 'denoising' does mitigate such noise, I find that I am very rarely ever comfortable with the results of 'denoising', even when gently applied.

In all listening, there is always also, necessarily, the presence of the listener. There is no such thing as an act of 'listening' without a 'listener'. There is no such thing as 'sound' without a 'hearer of sound'. Yes, there is something that we may describe as 'purely physical vibration', which can exist, in some sense, quite independently of any particular being that is capable of 'hearing' such 'purely physical vibration' as 'sound'. But, very strictly speaking, such 'purely physical vibration' is absolutely not 'sound', as such, because 'sound', very strictly speaking, is a special kind of perceptual experience, a perceptual phenomenon, that can only be perceived and experienced by a perceiver, an experiencer, who is perceptually and experientially conscious, in an appropriate form and way.

John Cage once sat in a very sophisticated soundproofed anechoic chamber, attempting 'to hear pure silence'. He realised that there can be no such thing as 'hearing pure silence' because, even in 'pure silence', the listener will hear the sound of his or her own listening organism and listening organs. The presence of the listener cannot but be heard by the listener. The presence of the listener means that 'pure silence' is, in principle, impossible.

For me, this applies also to the presence of the microphones and the sound recorder. Like the organic listener, these also produce their own internal physical electromagnetic vibrations, which they cannot but also record, since recording such vibrations is precisely what they have been designed to do. Some are quieter than others; but, in principle, none can ever be 'absolutely silent'. To my mind, microphones and sound recorders are, to recollect Marshall McLuhan, 'extensions of our nervous systems'; and, like our nervous systems, they contribute 'noise' to every act of 'listening' and 'hearing'. Of course, it's preferable that the difference between inevitable intrinsic 'self-noise' and significant 'signal' is high, rather than low. But the fact of the matter remains, that, by fundamental principle, 'noise' and 'signal' cannot be absolutely separated. Analogically, to recall Wittgenstein, there is no such thing as 'a rod without length'. That's a logical contradiction, and a physical contradiction. The same applies here.

The Absence

Manja Ristic

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