Anne-F Jacques/Takamitsu Ohta, Oto to Secchi

Episode 1 of The Young Academy of Scotland Coastal Knowledge podcast series. Listen to Ellie Graham, Caroline Wickham-Jones, Mark Williamson and Juan Brown talk about the Scottish coast, National Nature Reserves, Archaelogy and Climate Change.

Episode 1

We developed mobile learning materials, in the form of an audio series, based on the local natural context and local adolescents’ questions about nature. As a result, we invited scientists based in the Azores to respond to these questions. The audio series was created for the project’s mobile application that, among other functionalities, was designed to provide audio based content to a younger generation whilst offering the opportunity to explore, learn about and monitor their immediate environment by posing questions to scientists engaged in studying Azorean biodiversity.

For more information on the Field Guide project check: https://field-guide.info

EP11. Porque É Que Os Musgos São Importantes

WALKING THROUGH THE SUBMERGED FOREST

This piece is composed from my field recordings and readings of letters from Bexhill Museum archives, layered to bring to life a part of our eroding coastline and an archive which lies quietly unearthed. 
The field recordings were made whilst walking at low tide through pre-historic submerged forest remains, at Bulverhythe in EastSussex. This is layered with field recordings made in nearby woods.

Julian Porter, Rother Museums' curator found photographs and letters in the Bexhill Museum archives relating to the forest, which Actor and Theatre Producer Leigh Shine, read for me in a recording session. 
I hope the piece creates a spirit of place, a sense of timelessness and ever evolving change. The magical experience of walking through thousands of years of human and environmental ebb and flow.
Mary Hooper 
April 2023

Walking through the submerged forest

The legendary and wonderful Pete the Pond met me in February at Hampden Park Pond to talk about the wonderful biodiversity and history of Hampden Park Pond and waterways. He shares his passion forcring for the environment through the generation and restoration of ponds and the flora and fauna that colonise a healthy pond and water way and how important that is for us all. The soundscape is recorded in and around the pond and you will also hear Pete's parrot, who accompanies him on field trips, contributing to the commentary.
This piece has been made as a commissioned work for the Blue Heart Project for Wealden and Eastbourne a flood mitigation programme of works over a six year period up to 2027.
The Blue Heart project is building a library of inspiring audio that
relates to themes of climate change, flooding, water in
the environment, the Eastbourne and south Wealden community, and care for blue spaces.

The wonder of pond life with Pete The Pond

À l’aube,
Un petit duc sonne la cloche du village et réveille les rossignols,
Solo de mobylette qui dessine le paysage,
Un bourdon drague un saxophone,
L’eau capricieuse se fraie un chemin jusqu’au vignoble d’un mélomane, 
Le boulanger guette le vent…
Au commencement était le son.

Avec la participation de Vincent, Georges, Stéphane, Victor, Emma, Jacques, Marc et Myriam.

Création sonore collective réalisée par Ana Sany, Anaïs Binggeli, Celia Dessardo, Cicely Fell, Déborah Benarrosch, Irazema Vera, Jacob Redman, Léa Roger, Marie Casanova et Mathias Arrignon.
@kovisuel @cicelyfell @irazeman @lea_roger @user-653640218

Réalisée durant le stage de prise de son animé par Félix Blume à Azillanet (Avril 2023) dans les locaux du Couvent géré par le Foyer Rural d’Azillanet.

Remerciements à Nicolas Darzacq, Sara Lana, Martine Rousseaux, les membres du Foyer Rural et la Mairie d’Azillanet.

Le Chòt

The Oldest Living Linden Tree in the Germany (Registered in the Guinness Record Book) I made Biodata Recordings at the beginning of the August this year. I was pretty much busy this year with Biodata Recordings (from various Trees Linden, Olive, Spruce, .. and other plants like Tomatoes, Violet Roses, ..) I realized how signals of older plants like this one have generated arrangements with deeper consciousness, when we listen to final results as sound compositions at the end. i recorded in July 700 years younger Linden Tree (also those recordings were special in its own unique way), but this one I fell like a symphony of a good classical musician from the 19th century. 

For a "FULL LENGTH MIX" (without external environmental sounds) send me a message!

BIODATA RECORDINGS 2023

Biodata Recordings @1000 YEARS OLD LINDEN TREE (11/8/2023)

Aulus Bells Sheeps

Creative cut for Camp Radio
https://www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/
Hidrophones
Ableton

Water works

"Subterranean Sky" - a 2002 collaboration between sculptor george deMerle and composer Scott Gibbons - is a spacial environment that defies everyday perceptions of mass, form and time. An incredibly strong yet lightweight plastic, originally developed by deMerle using materials from NASA, is the medium used to create delicate fabrics of a proposed alternate reality.

The first to propose putting art into space*, deMerle sculpts light out of darkness with this webbing to create environments which seem to defy gravity. In fact, a recent deMerle piece which was so large as to fill an aircraft hangar weighed only 1 lb total, suspended. deMerle is best known as a political activist who fights for civil liberties, and for many decades he was considered an Outsider artist. But his art is a natural extension of his politics, which celebrates the necessity of personal expression for self-actualization.

Gibbons' original audio score is incorporated directly into the piece, directed through speakers that are integrated into deMerle's ethereal sculpture.

Although this is their first collaboration, deMerle and Gibbons have been close friends since the mid-80's, and in many ways Gibbons' work with audio is the sonic equivalent of deMerle's webbed designs; both of which often suggest more than they reveal.

* Although the NEA was very excited to back this project in 1977, they were ultimately unable to do so as there was no category for this kind of proposal.

Subterranean Sky (excerpts)

invent nature - planken - soundtrack (extract)

recorded with dpa4060's, JrF c-series contact mics & coil pickup's

invent nature - planken (extract)

Artist experimenting with recording and using sound as part of research and to create immersive multi media installations and stand alone artworks.
I record Oral history as part of the work I do and use it with soundscape to create work that evokes 'genius loci' streaming together timelines, memories, and events.

Walking through the submerged forest

Mary Hooper soundworks

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