great work. please check messages here, dear Marta!

great live work! What gear do you use? Synth? Digital?

Slowed-down risers amongst that strange plethora of 9 to 10 kHz "ringing" tones that I caught in Battersea Park, London in May 1996... really awesome, Maria!

Quantum Spins sounded like a good alertnative sound arts podcast playlist title, at least for starters. I'd been thinking about how to re-present sounds, music, audio, ideas about sonic & vibrational phenomena that I had been listening to or thinking about seriously and now here it is. My aim is to expose listeners to items I've found particularly fertile, inspirational and essential either in that they back up or initialize my own catalytics or genuinely throw a spanner into overly aggregrated or pat systems of how music and information should be organized or presented. This is a depot for highly charged works of art, maybe even a museum but not a venue (I am not seeking submissions nor for what some algorithm deems to be similar nor to have more of the same, not at all). I put here certain works I might have wanted to make if I had had the means or situation to do so and/or things I could never have imagined before. Many thanks to the perhaps yet unwitting (and future unknown) contributors ;)  Leading image from Marta Zapparoli's track is a photo of her recording auroera borealis: photographer Alex Conu.

Quantum Spins (Selected by Jeff Gburek)

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty scary.
Sound design & concept: Klaus Nielsen (https://soundcloud.com/maplepools) and Nikolai Linden-Vörnle (https://soundcloud.com/kamikaze_vildsvin)
Image by Crimson Sound (https://soundcloud.com/crimson-sound-483379629)
Read the full story: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/The_scary_sound_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field

The scary sound of Earth’s magnetic field

Posaune & Audiobearbeitung by Wolfram Schurack

Walfram

A new composition for ELKA organ, Bees and Flies processed.

You Are Never Alone But...

This is an Extract from the Premiere of my new solo performance "Interdimensional Generated Space", premiered in October 2022 at Panke Culture in Belin, as a part of the series (Von Antennenwäldern und Wellenozeanen) . 

A research-intensive piece focusing on the transcendental phenomenon of the Northern Lights. 
The planned performance uses the implement of self-made recordings from the Northern Lights, in combination with self-made crystal radio, plus light, detectors, and motors, to simulate a technological audio-visual version of Northern Lights in the performance space. “Interdimensional” specifically refers to the movement of energy between modes of perception. One part of this energy come from the composed mixture of “natural cosmic voices”; and another part is coming from the electromagnetic forces generated and captured in real time during the performance. The piece make full use of the contrasts of the invisible processes, to create a new experience of space, time, and human scale. 
This is an attempt to achieve a unique sonic dialogue 
between “Natural” and “Technological” world, a reflection on Nature that is imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age.

This project was kindly supported by Musikfonds & Neu Start Kulture
Photo credit : Alex Conu
Live recordings by : Roy Carroll

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

Track list in alphabetical order: 

Ben Prunty -  Lithium
Ben Prunty -  Magnetite
Ben Prunty - Cryptosuchus
Chypho - Nine North
Gas - Discovery
I.F.2 - Intergalactic Funk
Nok Cultural Ensemble - Awakening
Nok Cultural Ensemble - Njhyi
Nok Cultural Ensemble - Sang Awun
Pete Namlook - From Within - Silent Intelligence II
Pete Namlook - Psychonavigation - Mind Transference Control
Plank & Ishq - Emog Agog
SPECTRAL SONICS vol.2 // Ghostware: Arena of the Dead - Entry Point
Steve Jolliffe - Third Reality
Submus 4 - The Square Root of Sub
rEAGENZ - Ä (2021 Remaster)

Chill Sans

An IDM, DubStep type track with looping piano, glitchy beat and haunting vocals. 

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Vessels

Lite

Dust and shadow

Cinemagic (2016) Anthology CD3 Track 07

Sensible Heart

2024-0924

Sleeping City

Original Score inspired by the John Kessel novel The Moon and the Other

Sunlight Or Rock

14Nov24

Experimenting with Robert's track, 'clearly not sturdy'
https://soundcloud.com/robertknote/clearly-not-sturdy
:D

Robert Knote - clearly not sturdy [sm re-imagining]

2024-11-16

I Am Sitting On A Cloud.

My Body Is The Forest, The Forest Is My Body is a sound track, which accompanies the video project(phot. Jacek Jaca Wisniewsky),  under the same title, shot in the endangered zone of Bialowieza Forest.
This project searches to understand better the interrelation between the body and the forest through the
similarities which connect both organisms and to make it present to a viewer, aiming at changing the sociopolitical distance between the body of the viewer and the forest bringing it closer together instigating a more intimate relation between the two.
Bialowieza is one of the last remaining parts of the primal forest that once stretched across the northern European lowlands and a designated a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is home to many rare and unique species of wildlife including being the only area, where the european bison still survives in the wild. It is currently under threat from increased logging, which is the policy of the new polish government. The policy is very controversial and subject to intense debate, which gives a context to this project.

My Body Is The Forest The Forest Is My Body

listeners will find here the most recent edge of my research as well as album samples and one-offs from the last 10 years of my solo work, from official, upcoming releases, unreleased oddities, works in-progress, & experiments, all music by jeff gburek and collaborators, as noted. support directly via paypal: jeff.gburek@gmail.com or buy albums via https://jeffgburekprojects.bandcamp.com/

Marta Zapparoli is an Italian experimental sound artist, radio artist, improviser, performer, and independent researcher based in Berlin. 
In the recent years her work mainly involves the intersection of the visible and the invisible aspects of physics- seeking to activate all the poetic and conceptual levels. She capture unique recordings of electromagnetic radiation coming from the outer space, Radio Nature (VLF) and electro-smog, radio wave communication coming form the technological world. The relation-connection-dialogue between nature and our technological world  is a central theme in her work. Her main instruments are a vary of antennas,radio receivers,detectors,tape recorders,band machine. She is active in live performances, site-specific, improvisation, site 2003. She is a member of Splitter Orchester in Berlin among other projects.

Interdimensional Generated Space_ Extract Live Premiere@Panke Culture, Berlin 2022

Marta Zapparoli

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