Sound anthropologist Dr Tom Rice takes us on an immersive audio tour of an imaginary zoo, and asks us to think about it as a sound world. What happens if we make a conscious effort to listen to the zoo and its animals rather than just look at them? Can listening make us feel closer and more connected?

In an Anthropocene age of habitat destruction and biodiversity loss, an acoustic mindfulness of other lifeforms can help humans recalibrate their relationship to the natural world. It’s argued that looking at animals can produce a sense of detachment from them, and that having animals displayed for our viewing pleasure is an expression of a relationship in which humans are given power, and a sense of superiority. If that’s the case, can listening create a more sympathetic and empathetic orientation towards animals? 

Using animal sounds recorded at British zoos, in this podcast you’ll discover animals in an entirely new way, and think about our impact on them. What is the animals’ sound world like? What impact do our human sounds have on them? And we’ll do an experiment. One way to think about the decline in biodiversity is not just about diminishing numbers, you can also imagine a fade in the audible presence of animals. When a species dies out it also fall silent, so sound is a powerful way to draw attention to the value and fragility of biodiversity. Imagine a fade, taking decades, until finally there’s nothing, only silence. Would that be a loss do you think? 

Tom Rice is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research specialism is in sound and in 2018 he started a project called Listening to the Zoo with a small group of colleagues. The team worked with Bristol and also Paignton Zoo in Southwest England, to try to think about the zoo as a sound environment, and find out whether attending to different kinds and qualities of sound could produce new perspectives on the zoos and their animals.

This podcast was produced as part of the Listening to the Zoo project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Transforming Social Science research call.  

It was written and presented by Tom Rice, with input from Alex Badman-King, Sam Hurn and Paul Rose, all from the University of Exeter, and also from Adam Reed at the University of St Andrews. The sound designer was Eve Streeter.


Main image: Professor Sam Hurn recording Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas)at Paignton Zoo.

Listening to the Zoo

An Interview with Elena Biserna, author of the book: Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking, published by Q-O2's umland editions, accompanied by recordings of concerts by BNA BBOT and David Helbich, during the book launch on 9/12/2022 at Q-O2.

More infos on the book and distribution here:
http://www.q-o2.be/en/outcome/going-out-walking-listening-soundmaking-by-elena-biserna/

Elena Biserna ::: Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking

An immersive space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, ft. the works, selections, edits, experiments and ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT.

Presented for art not profit every second Monday of the month, 2000–2200 UK.

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For extended Q&A... please visit our website ------> pipipi.life <---- - 

Introduce yourself? Pronouns? Where do you currently reside? 

Hey,I’m Joe, Kincaid, Producer, Sound Designer and DJ from London. He/Him :) 

What is the last song you listened to before answering this Q&A? 

Pharaoh & Yogg - The Ultra Machine, I’m just listening through my music ahead of a gig next week in Belgium, usually I’ve got some weird floaty sounds on or a very nerdy audiobook on Biology or history haha, this is unusually heavy for my daytime / laptop admin activities.  

3 adjectives that start with the same letter to describe your music… 

Bleepy Bloopy and Brash 

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

Sustainable, realistic opportunities for all, and more support for artists to create without compromising on time / money to survive….I think this is creating a narrower pool of people who can pursue artistry…also for nightlife, music, all creative musical pursuits, to be recognised for their true value, with support schemes set up to help people pursue and thrive in these areas…

Kincaid - 7˚

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

full broadcast

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Celer : True Maps Of An Unreal Place : It Would Be Giving Up : Celer
pal-ndrom : Weight : Tumble Adrift : Harlem & Irving
Shielding : Bystander
Newworldaquarium : Shine Eyed : The Dead Bears : NWAQ
Tasos Stamou : Bells Drone : Monoliths : Moving Furniture
Neotnas : [track 7] : Metanoia
pal-ndrom : Less : Tumble Adrift : Harlem & Irving
Seefeel : Utreat : (Ch-Vox) Redux : WARP
Seefeel : Ch-Vox : (Ch-Vox) Redux : WARP
Holger Zilske & Martin Landsky : Dawn : Projectionist : Kneaded Pains
Tasos Stamou : Synaps : Monoliths : Moving Furniture
TVO : TLRS FNLX : The Long Road South : Logic of the Signifier
U : Parade : Parade Watchers : Phantasy Sound
Celer : Imagined Settlement : It Would Be Giving Up : Celer
D'Incise : Le Desir Ecrin Earlabs : Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair : Moving Furniture
Shielding : Aired
Martijn Comes & Rene Aquarius : The Eternal Isolation
Agents Of The Culture Industry : North Circular : The Long Road South : Logic of the Signifier
Ion Ludwig & Twan Sallaerts : Ages Old Original Ambience Take I : Meander
New World Aquarium : Avon Sparkle : The Dead Bears : NWAQ
Neotnas : [2] : Metanoia
Prins Thomas : H (The Orb Orbient Mix) : Remixed : Smalltown Supersound
Tasos Stamou : Chord Organ Drone #2 : Monoliths : Moving Furniture
Huerco S x Carmen Villain : Subtle Bodies (Huerco S. Version) : Subtle Bodies : Smalltown Supersound
Celer : An Evening, Elsewhere : It Would Be Giving Up : Celer
Tasos Stamou : Supernormal : Monoliths : Moving Furniture
Orphax : De steiger met uitzicht op de Sint-Urbanuskerk : Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair : Moving Furniture
Tapage & Gareth Davis : States : States : Moving Furniture
Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser : All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun
Ulrich Schnauss : On My Own (Robin Guthrie Version) : Quicksand Memory : Domino
Seefeel : Net : (CH-Vox) Redux : WARP
Ulla : Foam Angel : Foam : 3XL
Distorted Nude : Yukiguni : Moving Music: Sounds From The Rocking Chair : Moving Furniture
Freescha : Boyrgurl : Kids Fill The Floor : Attacknine
Bendik Giske : Cruising (Laurel Halo Remix) : Cruising : Smalltown Supersound
Tapage & Gareth Davis : State I : States : Moving Furniture
Neotnas : [12] : Metanoia
Cocktail Party Effect : TC377 : A Call : Yuku
Neotnas : [11] : Metanoia
Seefeel : E-hix^2 : (Ch-Vox) Redux : WARP
Muecha : The Green Up Under Hill : Misc. Works : Misc. Works
Freescha : Bumble : Kids Fill The Floor : Attacknine
Seefeel : E-hix 5: (Ch-Vox) Redux : WARP
Cocktail Party Effect : Bleep Test : A Call : Yuku

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This month we have Kincaid in the mix and chat. 

Sound design master Joe has had a stream of exceptional music out over the past few years and recently joined the PD fam with his track "Drench" featuring on a recent PDCOMP. We had chance to catch up and chat about his weird and wonderful world of sound, his early introductions to electronic music and how he approaches his studio time. In the mix, he showcases some of his own productions plus a whole bunch of swampy, tubby, deep and wonky selections. Yushh at the buttons for the first hour.

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Noods | Pressure Dome w/ Kincaid | 20.02.2025

Peripheries (2024): Was a site-specific, multichannel sound installation at Marshgate, UCL East, the work invited listeners to deepen their presence in the everyday environment through enlivening perceptions and enhancing awareness.

 Featuring a minimalist polyphonic choral composition drawing influence from venetian choral music, cori spezzati, (broken choruses) voices called across the vast atrium space, with solo voices serving as coordinates to define the reverberant open space. 

Interwoven within the composition were field recordings taken from the building itself. Lysergic and eerie, these processed recordings played with psychoacoustic perception and liminal listening perspectives, enlivening listeners to the sound and space around them. 

A unique array of 16 speakers arranged across 6 floors of the building, transformed the architectural space into a resonating body, encouraging an embodied exploration of the space to create a dynamic composition and evolving listening experience from multiple perspectives. 

Peripheries was originally created for 16 speakers installed at Marshgate UCL East. The 16-channels have been mixed as 3rd-order ambisonics and subsequently decoded to binaural for this edit. Composition, Sound Design and Mix - Amanda Butterworth Photography - James Tye Video - Amanda Butterworth contact-muekaspace2001@gmail.com 

Peripheries (2024) was a site-specific, multichannel sound installation at Marshgate, UCL East. Designed as an intervention in the daily life of the building, the work invited listeners to deepen their presence in the environment, enlivening perceptions and enhancing awareness.

Featuring a minimalist polyphonic choral composition drawing influence from Venetian choral music, cori spezzati (broken choruses), voices called across the vast atrium space, with solo voices serving as coordinates to define the reverberant open space.

Interwoven within the composition were field recordings taken from the building itself. Lysergic and eerie, these processed recordings played with psychoacoustic perception and liminal listening perspectives, enlivening listeners to the sound and space around them.

A unique array of 16 speakers was designed and implemented across 6 floors of the building, transforming the architectural space into a resonating body, encouraging an embodied exploration of the space to create a dynamic composition and evolving listening experience from multiple perspectives.

Peripheries - Binaural Render

Be transported (back) to Worthy Farm and deep inside the Glastonbury Festival experience. 

In 2014, award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry, set out to capture the life of the Festival through sound. This binaural soundscape presents 24 hours at Glastonbury, conveying the rich and layered festival experience, from putting up your tent to after hour revellers. Best listened to with headphones.

Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. In 2014, the V&A acquired guardianship of the Glastonbury Festival Archive, an eclectic and growing resource that reveals how the Festival has developed over the past 50 years to become the global cultural phenomenon it is today.

Find out more about the Glastonbury Festival Archive
https://www.vam.ac.uk/glastonbury

Peripheries - Binaural Render

Mücha/Amanda Butterworth

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