Astor Hall reverb at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Bryant Park
2025-04-04

Astor Hall 3:20pm

Bram

Assos’ta yaz mevsimini yaşamış olmak... Sararmış otların kokusuyla sarılıp, kaya ve taş tarlalarında yürümek. Taşların üstünde çeşit çeşit likenler, Anadolu meşeleri, zeytinler, akçakesmeler ve daha niceleri... 

Tüm bu güzellikleri rüzgarlı bir havada deneyimlerken, önümüze taşlarla özenerek yapılmış oldukça eski bir ahır denk geliyor. Merak edip çatısı bile kalmamış ahıra girdiğimizde, kocaman kayaların arasından fırlamış bir akçakesme ağacına dikkat kesiliyoruz. Ağaç oldukça yaşlı, her halinden belli. Rüzgarın şiddetiyle kulaklarımız, gördüğümüze ağır basmaya başlıyor. Kayaların arasından fırlamış ağacın gövdesi ve kurumuş büyük dallarından çıkan ses, bize ağacın yaşama inadını işitsel olarak sergiliyor. Her bir dal, her bir yaprak, yaşama tutunmanın birer hatırlatıcısıydı.

*Bu munis anları Bican Sağdıçoğlu ile birlikte deneyimlediğim için kendimi şanslı hissediyor ve ona sevgilerimi sunuyorum.

Fotoğraf: Bican Sağdıçoğlu

Assos Yelinde Akçakesmenin İni: Taşlar ve Rüzgar

A peaceful, meditative natural soundscape: the gentle wind through coastal forest; the deep roar of the Southern Ocean a mile away; and, immersed within the matrix of these elemental forces, a dispersed, quiet, but alive and recovering, early summer dawn - announced quite emphatically at the beginning of this recording by a nearby Red Wattlebird. (The Red Wattlebird's early 'wake up' calls are the only louder passage in this entire piece. It's a Red Wattlebird subspecies (Anthochaera carunculata clelandi) that is found only on Kangaroo Island.)

Recommended listening: Good quality headphones with a flat frequency response (preferably open-backed); or good quality stereo monitors. Relaxed deep meditative listening at a quiet time with minimal interference from extraneous noise. 

A note on the track image: The panorama photograph was taken from the middle of Snake Lagoon, facing the eastern forest margin of the lagoon. The recording was made from within the forest itself. At the time the photograph was taken, on 5th December 2024, Snake Lagoon, like most of the inland lagoons of Kangaroo Island, was dry, although its fertile soil floor was nevertheless green with flora, richly fertilised by the droppings of Kangaroo Island Kangaroos and Tammar Wallabies feeding on that same flora. Its dryness was due to a protracted period of unseasonal drought, a drought that was a major contributing cause to the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-2020. Those bushfires also raged through the coastal forests surrounding Snake Lagoon, which are seen, here, in this photograph, four years after the bushfires.

Related track: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20241205-wind-and-red-wattlebird-snake-lagoon-early-summer. (An excerpt from the first part of this longer recording, featuring the dawn calls of the Red Wattlebird.)

2024.12.05 A Windswept Early Summer Dawn at Snake Lagoon, Kangaroo Island.

Dawn chorus on the wetland. You can hear these species on the recording: great reed warbler (primarily), common cuckoo and mute swan
Date: 8. 6. 2025
Time: 4.05 - 5.30 am
Weather conditions: temperature 16°C, wind: 2m/s, partly cloudy
Place: Vranovice, South Moravia
Equipment: Telinga parabolic dish

Great reed warbler - dawn chorus on the wetland

For our next installment, we’re honoured to welcome ABSIS back to the series with a stunning recording of his all-vinyl hybrid DJ set at this year’s Perpendicular Festival.

Equipped with an ISO420 mixer, Pulsar-23, H90 FX, three turntables, and a crate full of heavyweight rhythms, ABSIS delivered a beautifully crafted dub session that warmed the dancefloor on Saturday morning.

May these sounds ease you gently into the week ahead <3

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Artwork by Clayton Ciolac
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The Observatory - ABSIS (Hybrid Set) - Perpendicular 2025

Inspired by a performance of 'Drumming' by Steve Reich.  Sound Source: https://freesound.org/people/drotzruhn/sounds/439504/

Humming After Reich

For the 322nd instalment of our series, we are bringing you a spectacular mix by the American producer Sebby Kowal.

Sebby Kowal is an American ambient & dub techno producer. He has been making ambient music since 2021 and dub techno since 2024. Sebby would describe his music as minimal with delicate textures and field recordings. He has been on a number of labels such as Rohs!/Lontano Series, Drift Deeper Recordings, Shimmering Moods Records, Atlantea Records, Florina Cassettes, Deep Electronics, Cold Tear Records and more.
Sebby believes when you create ambient and dub techno music, the possibilities are endless. In the future Sebby has a number of new projects coming up from mixes, compilations, Ep's and new albums.

"When people listen to my music, I would like them to feel relaxed and to be at peace."

Tracklist:
1. Stilhed - Nap
2. Retland - Miracles
3. KapTep & Sebby Kowal - 404 Error Page Not Found
4. Innesti & Jacob Newman - Vanishing
5. Porya Hatami & Tomotsugu Nakamura - Mystic Lake
6. KapTep & Sebby Kowal - Switch
7. Celer & Forest Management - Montrose
8. Andrew Heath & Halftribe - Garden Leave
9. KapTep & Sebby Kowal - Knowhere
10. KapTep & Sebby Kowal - Trace 4
11. Heavenchord - Hibernation Dub
12. Hidden Sequence - Cloud Forest
13. Night Sea - CV415

Photo by Spencer Demera

Sebby Kowal
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Deep Breakfast 322 ~ Sebby Kowal

The first in a planned series of extensions to my 2025 album OCHRE, recorded August 2025 in Birmingham. These brief, self-contained sketches are intended to sit alongside the original album, and to echo its themes and moods.

One (Ochre extras)

NTS 25th August 2025

Stereo hydrophone recording inside a glacier crevasse with exiting air bubbles. Recorded on the Morteratsch Glacier, July 19, 2025.

Astor Hall 3:20pm

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