Fieldrecordings, Ambient Music, Soundscapes.

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Datum, Uhrzeit: Donnerstag, 19. April 2012, 19:15 Uhr

Standort: Gleis 7. Blick Richtung Gleis.

Kurzbeschreibung: Geräuschkulisse des Bahnhofs, Ansage, Einfahrt ICE, Fahrgäste, Abfahrt ICE.

Field Recording für die Publikation von Gerhard Paul, Ralph Schock (Hg.) (2013): Sound des Jahrhunderts. Geräusche, Töne, Stimmen - 1889 bis heute (Buch, DVD). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. ISBN: 978-3-8389-7096-7 

Alle zehn Field Recordings: http://aporee.org/maps/projects/soundxx
Mehr über das Projekt: http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/soundxx/

2012-04-19 Berlin, Hauptbahnhof - ICE am Gleis 7

Datum, Uhrzeit: Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012, 16:00 Uhr

Standort: Vor Herrfurthstraße 11-12, Blick Richtung Straße (Süd).

Kurzbeschreibung: "Lärmdemo" gegen die "Luxusbebauung" des Tempelhofer Feldes.

Field Recording für die Publikation von Gerhard Paul, Ralph Schock (Hg.) (2013): Sound des Jahrhunderts. Geräusche, Töne, Stimmen - 1889 bis heute (Buch, DVD). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. ISBN: 978-3-8389-7096-7 

Alle zehn Field Recordings: http://aporee.org/maps/projects/soundxx
Mehr: http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/soundxx/

2012-05-20 Berlin, Demonstrationszug - Herrfurthstraße

Datum, Uhrzeit: Donnerstag, 19. April 2012, 17:00 Uhr

Standort: Vor dem Berolina-Haus, Blick Richtung Weltzeituhr (Südost).

Kurzbeschreibung: Trams, Passanten, Verkehrsrauschen, in der Ferne S- und Regionalbahnen, Straßenmusiker.

Field Recording für die Publikation von Gerhard Paul, Ralph Schock (Hg.) (2013): Sound des Jahrhunderts. Geräusche, Töne, Stimmen - 1889 bis heute (Buch, DVD). Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. ISBN: 978-3-8389-7096-7

Alle zehn Field Recordings: http://aporee.org/maps/projects/soundxx
Mehr: http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/soundxx/

2012-04-19 Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Berolina-Haus

Date: 2013-02-14; Time: 11.43 am; Location: London; Length: 02'38

London, King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, Western ticket hall - Automatic barriers. People checking in: signals, chatter, steps, mechanical sounds from card readers and barriers. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=17491

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-02-14 London, King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, Western ticket hall - Automatic barriers

Date: 2013-06-30; Time: 05.49 pm; Location: Riga; Length: 07'03

Riga, Vērmanes Dārzs - In the Park.

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19812

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900, Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

Picture by Wordsthink, http://tinyurl.com/q7jouny

2013-06-30 Riga, Vērmanes Dārzs - In the Park

Date: 2013-09-25; Time: 06.19 pm; Location: Perugia; Length: 06'46

Perugia, Piazza del Duca, Via del Carmine - Children playing in the alleyways, passers-by.

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19815 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-09-25 Perugia, Piazza del Duca, Via del Carmine - Children playing in the alleyways, passers-by

Date: 2013-07-05; Time: 09.42 am; Location: Kallaste; Length: 07'32

Kallaste, Estonia - Market. 

Listen to this recording at aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=19814 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2013-07-05 Kallaste, market

At the Weekend On The Continent Event on the Nene Valley Railway

USA S160 No 6046 approaches then slows for the speed restriction over the River Nene bridge at Lynch wood. After crossing the River the train accelerates away towards Wansford with a train from Peterborough NVR.

At the Weekend On The Continent Event on the Nene Valley Railway

Ambient nature recording with war planes passing above in the mountains of Lebanon.

Field Recording:  Ambient Nature Below, War Planes Above

Parallel Landscapes is the first solo full-length album from Swiss artist Steinbrüchel on 12k, despite his relationship with the label and apperances on compilations, collaborations (Status, with Frank Bretschneider (12k1033)) and EP releases (Mit Ohne, (12k2010)). It seems that Steinbrüchel was waiting for the right moment to release such an illustrious album that is not only a release of music but of visual art as well.

Parallel Landscapes consists of a compact disc in a cd wallet and a beautifully printed sixty page colour printed booklet with a laser stenciled wrap-around cover conceptualized and designed by Steinbrüchel featuring photographs from Taylor Deupree and an essay by Lawrence English. The booklet and cd wallet are housed in a slipcase printed inside and out in black and white on contrasting paperstocks.

The music on Parallel Landscapes was created with the design process in mind. Steinbrüchel engaged himself with ideas of «designing» music instead of making or writing music and about the importance of music existing with (or without) visual enhancement.

The ideas of landscape, while not new in the musical world, were prevalent throughout the creative process. Music vs. landscape, music as horizontal layers, drawing new curves (landscapes) over sound files, imposing one landscape onto another and hearing/seeing the results. However, the album isn¹t just about horizontal combinations but vertical inbetweens as well. What happens from one event to the next? What happens when events are combined? How does the addition of one object (audio, visual) redefine another object next to it? What happens to a table when a chair is placed in front of it? ... And how does all of this coalesce into sonic and visual space?

There¹s an incredible amount of exploratory thought behind Parallel Landscapes that make this one of Steinbrüchel¹s most ambitious projects to date. His music has become increasingly refined but always retaining his signature sound. Still using the ideas of sine waves and pure tones but now softened with time, his palette stretches across electronics into a variety of found and acoustic sources. Bell tones are in the forefront, interspersed with the soft crackles of noise and static. Tones are stretched across the visual plane like a bell being carried across the land forever duplicating itself. Parallel Landscapes is engaging and reflective and sets a new standard in Steinbrüchel¹s creative output.

Parallel Landscapes

A Class 66 locomotive No 66711 heads towards Peterborough with a long train of containers to the accompaniment of fine spring bird song.

Freight Train at Aliwal Lane Crossing, Whittlesea

description: sound of the waves washing over the small beach and a natural cave
location: Costabella, Kvarner, Croatia
geophony: wind, roling of sea stones..
anthrophony: traffic
time: 15h
date: 6. 11. 2011.
weather: overcast, rain
wind: strong, sirocco
sea conditions: 2
tide: high

Sea, sound of the waves and roling sea rocks, natural cave

Ramnagar, Uttarakhand, India

Your Ears in Some Bushes

Fawn

Jungle Ambience

Date: 2013-01-03; Time: 03:03pm; Location: Nauener Platz, Berlin; Length: 05'19

Urban square Nauener Platz in Berlin was recently remodeled and reconstructed by urban planners and acousticians to improve its ambiance - with special regard to its sonic properties. One of the outcomes of this project is a noise barrier (gabions) reducing traffic noise on the playground.

Following a particular "soundscape approach" Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and her colleagues conducted "soundwalks" and invited local residents to participate in the planning process. In respondance to their requests for pleasant sounds several "audio islands" were installed: visitors of Nauener Platz are supposed to sit down on benches with integrated speakers and to listen to ocean surf or birdsong. In effect these sounds now merge with the traffic noise in the background, thus creating a strange mix of environmental sounds which were formerly antithetic.

For her work at Nauener Platz Schulte-Fortkamp was granted the “European Soundscape Award” in November 2012.

Read more at http://sonicagents.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/a-soundscape-re-modeled/

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2013-01-03 Nauener Platz, Berlin - Bench 1 Ocean surf

Date: 2012-10-12; Time: 01:53pm; Location: Berlin; Length: 04'29

Koloniestraße, Berlin - hammering and flame-cutter on the scrapyard, passers-by. Some use this narrow path as a shortcut between Koloniestraße and Holzstraße. Besides the workers on the scrapyard you can also hear some men being picked up from the nearby mosque after the mass. Recorded for 'Soundmap Soldiner Kiez' (see http://aporee.org/maps/projects/soundmap_soldiner_kiez ), a contribution to the project KiezKulturNetz (see http://www.kkn.kritische-kunst.org/ ). 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=15034 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

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Koloniestraße, Berlin - Hämmern und Schweißen auf dem Schrottplatz, Passanten. Manche benutzen diesen schmalen Weg als Abkürzung zwischen der Kolonie- und der Holzstraße. Abgesehen von den Arbeitern auf dem Schrottplatz kann man auch einige der Männer hören, die sich vor der nahen Moschee abholen lassen, nachdem die Messe gerade zuende ist. Aufgenommen für 'Soundmap Soldiner Kiez' (Link http://aporee.org/maps/projects/soundmap_soldiner_kiez ), ein Beitrag zum Projekt KiezKulturNetz (siehe http://www.kkn.kritische-kunst.org/ ). 

Höre diese Aufnahme auch auf aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=15034 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 und externes Mikrophon Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2012-10-12 Koloniestraße, Berlin - hammering and flame-cutter on the scrapyard, passers-by

Date: 2012-04-26; Time: 11:02am; Location: Berlin; Length: 02'07

Tiergarten, Berlin - lawn sprinklers periodically hitting trees and signs. 

Listen to this recording on aporee ::: maps http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=14676 

[Hi-MD-recorder Sony MZ-NH900 with external microphone Beyerdynamic MCE 82] 

2012-04-26 Berlin Tiergarten - lawn sprinklers periodically hitting trees

I tried out my new Audio-Technica AT4022 omni-directional microphones with my Tascam HD-P2 recorder in the woods on the outskirts of Stockholm. Had to use high pass filter in post because of the awful traffic noise. 

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