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ALKIN REMIXes LIVE SET 13:07:23

La sesión del 20 de mayo de 1979 inicia con las palabras “Hola, soy David Bowie. Está un poco gris afuera, pero tenemos un poco de agua Perrier y tenemos un bonche de discos …”. Bowie resulta ser un disc jockey muy ecléctico en la transmisión de dos horas, lanzando tracks de King Crimson, Talking Heads, The Mekons, Philip Glass, Blondie, Roxy Music, los Velvets e Iggy Pop a la sesión.
By BBC Radio One

David Bowie Star Special

Composición / Registro Santa Teresa la Antigua, Ex Teresa Arte Actual.

"(...) Camina tan silenciosamente que las plantas de tus pies se vuelvan tus oídos.”
Pauline Oliveros. 
Homenaje. 

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ear

Beginning with a religious chant about death, voice fragmentations, a squeaking door, a cemetery gate, layers of voices, tapped objects and other textures, themes in Quebranto shows: brokeness, death, religion and nostalgia. A butterfly flutter, broken sticks, glitched sounds and bells are a prelude for the voice of portuguese and mexican birds, water and ghosts, all of them broken by different kind of sound textures. Mexican religious chants for the dead are mixed with sounds of portuguese procession and sheep bells. Then vendimia sounds, noise, high frequencies and machines are the prelude for sounds from the mexican sea, kids playing, plastic bags, crickets, granite, all of them selected because of their timbrical characteristics and, because this sounds were gifted, in gratitude I share some field recordings from Mexico related to the themes in the piece. Finally a chant: Oh Christ you will reign, and the sound of a machine erase everything. A spectre: when everything is disappearing and dying, only the sounds in our heart and memory will remain.

This piece plays with stereo field, creating spaces for different listening experiences, and treating each sound object from its own materiality as a sound file, placing them in different sites of the loudspeakers. With this idea, the audio processes are minimal: filters, compression, delays, reverbs, distortion, pitch-shifting and stretching. Quebranto is inspired by Hildegard Westerkamp, Luc Ferrari and Francisco Lopez works and thoughts on soundcape and listening; also by the protocols for listening by sound art collective Ultra-red. I want to thank Armstrong Liberado for the use of their loudspeakers in their studio.

Biography
Fabián Avila Elizalde «Neural Xólotl» (Mexico, 1980) is an artist, educator and researcher on experimental music, listening and sound art. He got a master's degree in music (Music Technology, UNAM) for linking soundscape composition and glitch aesthetics. Before, he got a bachelor's degree in psychology (UNAM), was formed in electric bass and jazz theory with Aaron Cruz and was self-taught in electronic music. Awarded with 1st. Place in IV National Videoart University Contest (MUAC, 2014) and 4th. Place in Music and Design Contest (Circo Volador, 2013), also has been granted with scholarships by Master Program in Music (UNAM), Salón Abierto (ArteHoy/ CONACULTA) and Visiones Sonoras (CMMAS); he got a special economical support by FONCA in 2013. His artistic and academic work has been shown in national and international museums, galleries, festivals, universities and venues. Today, he is part of Armstrong Liberado, a free music collective. 

https://neuralxolotl.wordpress.com/

Fabián Avila Elizalde: Quebranto

Disfruta de este rico y suave sonido latino en puro vinyl.

Suavepasión - Vol 1.

During the night close to a pound in the small community of Lavaderos (Desert of San Luis Potosi, Mexico), some toads and frogs are singing, happy to had some rain during the day.... after a few months very dry.

Recorded by a AB setup with 2 B&K 4006 Microphones
On a Sound Devices 633 recorder
Original recording in Wave 96K 24bit
Sound Ref MXF190620T15
GPS 23.592193 -101.114010
Same sound in wave on Freesound
Recorded during the project "Desert's Light" by Félix Blume & Pierre Costard in June 2019

Toads and frogs during the night in the desert (San Luis Potosi, Mexico)

At the mountain Las Narices close to Coyotillos, storm is arriving and some thunders are clapping, before the rain. The sheperd and their goats are coming down, and Luz is coming to me at the end to have a chat. Some dogs are barking and coming down with the goats. 

Recorded by a ORTF setup with 2 Schoeps CCM4 Microphones in a Cinela Windshield. On a Sound Devices 633 recorder
Original recording in Wave 96K 24bit
Sound Ref MXF190617T10
GPS 23.315748 -101.184082
Same sound on Freesound in Wave.
Recorded during the project "Desert's Light" by Félix Blume & Pierre Costard in June 2019

Thunders and sheperd in the mountain Las Narices

Pasajeros con destino a Corpus: favor de abordar

Tito Rivas: Pasajeros con Destino A Corpus

Flujo sonoro de reflexiones en torno al cambio aural que percibimos en este momento desde y en nuestras casas. Agradecemos la participación de quienes nos compartieron su sentir a través de sus grabaciones.

Encuentra todos los audios en nuestro Archive: https://archive.org/details/EcosCotidianos_EscucharEnPausa

Intro Ecos Cotidianos: escuchar en pausa

Mirna Castro. (México, 1987) Su trabajo explora las posibilidades sonoras a partir de grabaciones de campo y la revisión de materiales de archivo, para crear paisajes imaginarios y estadios auditivos inmersivos. En 2014 fundó la plataforma colaborativa Grafofonía, dedicada a la divulgación de actividades sonoras culturales. Es parte de Escuchatorio, una plataforma digital que reposiciona la escucha como ejercicio político. Durante varios años colaboró en las áreas de Digitalización y en Promoción y Difusión del Sonido de la Fonoteca Nacional. Actualmente es responsable de la producción de los eventos culturales de Ex Teresa Arte Actual, así como del montaje de las exposiciones del mismo recinto.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ear

Mirna Castro

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