Copy of Your Mix 2

Following the 130701 imprint for over two decades has been a rewarding experience. After all, this is the same offshoot of FatCat that brought us the best of Max Richter, Hauschka, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and yes, even introduced the world to Sigur Rós. This is what a label does best - it puts a "label" on its output, essentially a stamp of approval, if you will, of what it is excited to support. And this is why I hungrily continue to consume pretty much everything in its catalogue, especially by artists previously unknown to me. [And, secretly, I hope that you can say the same about the purpose of my words]. Today, I'd like to share with you a track by the Danish composers Emil Friis and Patricio Fraile, who are best known for their film and television scores (again, mostly for the Danish audience). For their collaboration titled The Expected Sounds Of Minor Music, the duo composed eleven vignettes with minimal piano melodies supported by a string quartet and solo cello performed by Joe Zeitlin. "The album's layered and intimate sound, along with its ability to encourage contemplation [...] reflect the duality of life, encompassing both the major and minor moments." This is a perfect soundtrack to wake up to and start a brand new day, bringing forth some optimism, serenity, and hope... even as it's mostly based on minor keys.

The Expected Sounds Of Minor Music

Minor Music

TRACK PREMIERE : Emil Friis & Patricio Fraile - Minor Music

Enregistrement d'une roselière, secteur Madine vers 2h30 du matin le 12 mai 2024. 
Butor étoilé, Rainette verte , Rousserolle turdoïde, Blongios nain, Locustelle luscinioide, Rossignol philomèle, Coucou gris, Chouette hulotte, Phragmite des joncs etc... Mais aussi hélas sanglier dans la roselière ! 
Enregistrement en MS avec MKH 8060 + MKH 8030.

Etangs meusiens,  Butor étoilé, Rouserolle turdoïde etc..

The experience of beauty is in our daily lives, and within us.

Shinbigan (審美眼) - Appreciation, Eye for beauty

1. Hirusagari (昼下がり) - Early in the afternoon
2. Chouryou (跳梁) - Jumping about
3. Senkoji (千光寺) - A temple in Onomichi, Hiroshima
4. Youtou (揺蕩) - Swaying
5. Boukyaku (忘却) - Oblivion
6. Harusame (春雨) - Spring rain
7. Kanjyaku (閑寂) - Quietness
8. Syugyoku (珠玉) - Gem
9. Amagiri (雨霧) - Misty rain

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Photo by Hidekazu Imashige

Shinbigan

Youtou

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the disastrous presidential debate and ensuing political chaos, wrapping up with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

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Democrat's Palace Coup, Trump Assassination Attempt

A long, unedited excerpt from the dawn section of an unattended overnight recording, featuring Crested Bellbirds performing a series of transpositions of their distinctive but (rhythmically and tonally) variable Bellbird song pattern. (At 20:10 one of them seems to push itself to the highest point of its vocal range.)

The recording was made with a microphone rig comprising four supercardioid microphones in an IRT Cross / double NOS array, in open Mallee country.

In this first stereo mixdown of the four isolated tracks of the fourfold array, because of the original stereo perspective, there appears to be only one main (near) vocalist (not counting those Bellbirds that are obviously much farther away). However, while later experimenting with other stereo perspectives made possible by the four tracks, it became clear that, in fact, more than one main (near) Bellbird vocalist was involved. For a different stereo perspective that reveals this differentiation: https://earth.fm/recordings/winter-dawn-in-mallee-country-with-crested-bellbirds/.)

Recorded respectfully and mindfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

Track image credit: Male Crested Bellbird photographed by Indra Bone (South Australia, 2019). Source: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/photos/43977723. (CC BY-NC). Below the photograph is a spectrogram of the recording.

2024.08.11 Crested Bellbirds: Transposition Display. Dawn. Winter's End. (1st stereo perspective)

Blur

Recorded using a SASS - made by Marco pesente and zoom F3.

Wolf Chorus

The desert stretched out before them like a golden tapestry. This early in the day, the last remnants of a cool breeze could be felt coming down off the mountains to the west. Among the dunes, delicate blossoms of desert wildflowers began to furl and wait patiently again for the moon. The singing of the gentle wind across the surface of the dunes was all around them. 

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I am on bandcamp.com now
Two Thrush Nightingales in song.  Recorded at night beginning at 2.05am on the 20th of May 2013, in Soomaa National Park, Estonia.  This is the third of three recordings.  Some months ago I uploaded this same recording but a shorter version in 44khz/16bit, this recording is the full-length 48Khz/24Bit version.  Equipment; A matched pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.
Recording 2502.
To help you find my other albums, here is a list of the names of the albums as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.  
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.  	Forest Home.	  Out of the blue.
Jungle report.	Wild enough.	  Na Luum Ca - revisited.

South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau   (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.	   Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru   (4 disc production).
Otorongo.     	  Tahuayo. 
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.	  At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.	
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1 and 2.	  The joy of birdsong.	  Birds of the great Saltee.   Saltee Revisited.		Songs of silence.		Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.		 Suburban Birds (This one was never uploaded to sound cloud).

2 Thrush Nightingales - The 48khz/24Bit version

Hydrangea

Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio guides the listener through the history of the infamous 'Israeli Art Student' spy ring that was identified by the DEA in an official leaked document from 2000 and how this spy ring crosses over with the illicit global MDMA/Ecstasy trade, the 9/11 hijackers in Florida and possibly dozens of Mossad cut-out operations operating inside the United States. 

In the episode we provide an exclusive report from Dancesafe.org co-founder Emanuel Sferios about his own encounter with the Israeli spy ring in 1999.

Additional documentation, video clips and pointers were provided by researchers Jon Gold and DJ Thermal Detonator

*Opening track is 'Alien Disco' by Cosmosis from 1996

*Robbie incorrectly says the Dancesafe.org office was in San Francisco, CA, it was actually located in Oakland, CA

*Robbie incorrectly refers to Urban Moving as 'Urban Moving Systems' several times before realizing his error

Media Roots Radio 

Ecstasy, Israeli Art Students & the Mossad

Track for Slow sketch vol. 1: Reflections of the ambient community, on El Muelle Records.

Warmth - Dögun

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

From the forthcoming album Cantus, Descant out 18th September on Late Music
https://latemusic.ffm.to/midlands

Midlands

New Form

Passionné par les sons en général mais avant tout par les sons de la nature. J'ai donc une affection particulière pour l'audionaturalisme mais je suis ouvert aussi au field recording plus largement. Création de podcasts notamment documentaires sonores

Etangs meusiens, Butor étoilé, Rouserolle turdoïde etc..

Chercheur de sons - Olivier Pichard

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