Sound Art/Field Recordings 2

MAP09
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/aeroplanes-puddles

“This recording is based on a particular geographic area of Sydney: the industrial zone around Sydenham Train station. As with many inner city industrial areas in large cities all over the western world, this place is ripe for redevelopment. However, in this case, due to the zone being directly underneath the flight path to Sydney airport, as well as being flood prone due to environmental factors, unscrupulous property developers are not able to completely gut the place and erect hideous apartments. What is interesting to me, and what this recording aims to capture, is that these factors – the aeroplanes and the puddles – act as a form of resistance to the development.” (MP Hopkins) 

MP Hopkins is a hidden treasure from Australia, a sound artist known for his varied music projects and strange mix of lo-fi urban field recordings and intimate bedroom experiments. Sonic details of empty streets from close neighbourhood, subtle intervention and fragments of lonely voice comments are reminding distinctive forms of sound journalism or a diary for night adventurers. Aeroplanes & Puddles follows the previous Traipse - Marrickville (2015) album which is Hopkins's starting point for his walks along the Sydney suburb. 

Mappa presents the sonic evidence of this opposition; the non-human voices of resistance that the aeroplanes and water speak with in this acoustic environment. The work features field recordings of the area garnished with a text narrated by Hopkins which combines fragments of the 2017 Australian Federal Budget speech and parts of ‘The Powerhouse’ – a radio play by Richard Packer (Gargoyle Poets series, 1972).”Feel free floating in the holy sound voyeurism and thorough collection of evidence from the other world at the same time. 

released February 7, 2018 

recorded, mixed and mastered by MP Hopkins 
artwork and design by Jakub Juhás, Richard Čecho 
photos by Nina Pacherová 
released by mappa as MAP09 in 2018

Aeroplanes & Puddles

part 1

part 2

Tokyo Phonographer Union at the Fernandes House, Yokohama, Japan
World Listening Day, July 18 2021
Live stream (archive): https://youtu.be/AdL5gNT6jYo

Part 1:
Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - percussion
Haruo Okada - Real time soundscape

Part 2: (in order of appearance)
 CarlStone, Haruo Okada, Marcos Fernandes, Hiroshi Shimizu - phonography

Technical support: Hideki Giga Oikawa

Live at the Fernandes House, World Listening Day 2021

from the album suikinkutsu no katawara ni released by winds measure.

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Explorations into field recordings and live electronics.

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"Sunday afternoon, then, I’d go to my woods with the dogs and sit and put out my hands palms up and accept handfuls of sun boiling over the palms. “Nirvana is the moving paw,” I’d say, seeing the first thing I saw as I opened my eyes from meditation, that being Bob’s paw moving in the grass as he dreamed."
(J.Kerouac, The Dharma Bums)

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Illustration by Laurie Van Elsacker (https://lauve.be)

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