Assemblage of urban and outside field recordings investigating points of carbon consumption and sequestration in various environments. 

Premiered on Borealis Radio Space during the 2021 Borealis Festival based in Norway.

Climatic Harbors

climatic harbors

Assemblage of field recordings made in the Mojave Desert in 2022.

Mojave Traces

Field recordings of coastal erosion control systems, landslide sediment, wind in dead stalks of coastal plants, and the ocean, made at Mussel Rock in Daly City, California. The audio was duplicated onto cassette tape corroded in ocean water then layered with the digital versions. 

Audio component from a mixed media installation titled Lost Contents Within Limits exhibited at Gravy Gallery in Santa Cruz, California in December 2022.

Lost Contents Within Limits

I am interested in the smartphone as a recording device for the contradiction of a high tech device yielding low fidelity audio recordings with a kind of casual atmosphere about the sound which in some ways brings to mind the microcassette recorders and boomboxes I first began collecting sounds when I was young. 
There is also something interesting in using the smartphone as an object through which to focus on listening to an environment as this device is often used to direct attention away from one's immediate surroundings and onto a screen. 

This track is a collage of smartphone recordings taken while traveling for three weeks through Vietnam in March 2015. Some EQ adjustments were made.

notes:

taxi anouncement, motorbike traffic, banh mi seller on bicycle in Saigon.
Ben Thanh (SGN) wet market ambiance and Nha Trang outdoor market seller with loudspeaker.
Cicadas in Hue alongside the Perfume River.
People working looms in Hoi An's silk village and the voice of a guide explaining some processes.
The end of an outdoor celebration in Hoi An.
Propeller plane cabin ambiance.
Announcement and package-wrapping at Cam Ranh Airport.
An excerpt of the never-ceasing motorbike traffic.
Street musicians performing in Hanoi.

lo-fi vietnam

two excerpts from live improvisations in april 2016:

00:00-11:50 
solo percussion at ftarri, suidobashi, tokyo 

11:52-21:52 
solo percussion & field recordings at apollo, shimokitazawa, tokyo 

tokyo twice (percussion solo, live)

I am interested in the smartphone as a recording device for the contradiction of a high tech device yielding low fidelity audio recordings with a kind of casual atmosphere about the sound which in some ways brings to mind the cassette recorders I first began collecting sounds on when I was a kid.
There is also something interesting in using the smartphone as an object through which to focus on listening to an environment as this device is often used to direct attention away from one's immediate surroundings and onto a screen. 

This track is a collage of smartphone recordings taken while traveling through Japan in April 2016 and March 2017. Some EQ adjustments were made.

notes:
a worker sawing wood in the rain in Inokashira Park, a worker using a handmade rake on the path to Meiji Jingu, a recording from the interior of the Yufuin no Mori train, split channel ambiance from two shinkansen platforms (Kumamoto & Kyoto), a train pulling into Koenji station, a slowed down recording from the 10th floor window of a doya (slum hotel) near Shin-Imamiya station in Osaka, a storm drain on a rainy day in Inokashira Park, creaking oars on a boat taken down the Hozugawa River in Kyoto, the rushing Shiratani River in Yakushima, ambiance from a train station bakery in Koenji, Tokyo, a station announcement about reporting anything suspicious at Hiroshima station, an announcement warning against using a smartphone while riding a bicycle in Inokashira Park, a droney ride on the Aso Limited Express train, announcements on the town loudspeaker about cancelled flights due to weather in Yakushima, an end of the school day song from the same loudspeaker echoing through town.

lo-fi japan

Location recordings collected, arranged and edited in California in 2012.

Wet Geography II

Location recordings collected, arranged and edited in California, 2010-12.

Wet Geography I

Percussion and electronics recorded, arranged and edited 2010-2012.

touch receding (percussion & electronics)

kevin corcoran works with percussion, field recording and electronics.

based in san francisco, california, he improvises, arranges sounds and collaborates across disciplines and borders.

kevin corcoran

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