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listening with(in) the trees 🌀🌀🌀

for headphone listening ~  original sounds recorded in El Sabinar, El Hierro, May 2021 during a fieldtrip for the project CANARIAS DC SOUNDWALK, supported by the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in the US ~ first released on the World Listening Day 2021 THE UNQUIET EARTH compilation, GFR, Portugal.

http://bit.ly/CanariasDCSoundwalk
https://archive.org/details/vagfrwld2021theunquietearth

sabina turbinata

Based on recordings along river tributaries and flooded forests across Amanã and Mamirauá in central Amazônia, "strange strangers" invites us to listen to -within- a singular world of vitality, cultivating encounters with other beings (life-forms, terrestrial matters, sounds) and with our being as an other. 

pablo sanz' practice is an open-ended investigation of listening and more-than-human vitality, focusing on the limits of perception and attention and encouraging sensory ecological awareness. His work includes site-specific and public art projects, spatial audio installations, immersive multichannel concerts in the dark, and pieces for headphone listening. 
pablosanz.info

Mastered by Ludwig Berger

pablo sanz: strange strangers (Excerpt)

Commissioned by INLAND - CAMPO ADENTRO (Art, Agricultures and Countryside) Residency Program 2011. Premiered at MedialabPrado Madrid (14/09/11). EMPREMTES SONORES, a sound mapping project of the rural environment of Sant Bartomeu del Grau in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia.

Fieldwork, July-August 2011. Composition, Den Haag, September 2011.

http://www.pablosanz.info/huellas-sonoras/

 ***HEADPHONES LISTENING RECOMMENDED***

Commissioned by Atelier de Création Sonore Radiophonique (ACSR) Brussels for Silence Radio in 2012. Curated by Etienne Noiseau and Irvic d’oliver.

"Extraite des limbes des flaques, des mares et des étangs, se déploie une biodiversité fantasmagorique. Baissez-vous, un peu plus bas, un peu plus près de la surface, et buvez le bouillon par les oreilles." 

Based on hydrophone and above water recordings made in freshwater environments at various locations in Spain and Slovakia between 2007 and 2012. 

SILENCE RADIO :: Hiver 2012 : IN THE END (last edition)
10 commissioned works by: Henri Morelle, Anne-James Chaton, Andreas Trobollowitsch, Thomas Baumgartner, Yann Leguay, Christophe Deleu & François Teste, Pablo Sanz, Hanna Hartman, Anthony Carcone, Gregory Whitehead

http://www.silenceradio.org/grid.php?artist=131

released on Bandcamp, stereo and quadraphonic multichannel version, 2016
https://pablosanz.bandcamp.com/album/limnee

limnee

https://pablosanz.bandcamp.com/album/aeolian-precipitations

Based on wind recordings made in Den Haag and Leiden, The Netherlands during the Winter 2011. Contribution to the radio show Broadcasting Den Haag, produced at the Institute of Sonology for Framework Radio. Curated by Raviv Ganchrow and Patrick McGinley. 

The piece was also released in the double CD compilation SOUND-IN 2012, published for the 1st Sound-In Programme for New Creators at Estampa, Spanish Multiple Art Fair in Madrid, October 2012.

aeolian

spectrum (ståtic limbø) is a live performance series focused on the exploration of environmental electromagnetic energies.

pablosanz.info/static-limbo/

stereo live excerpts from a quadraphonic live performance at VELAK-export in Vienna, 07.01.2016

many thanks to Vinzenz Schwab & VELAK crew

SPECTRUM | live excerpts @ VELAK Vienna 07.01.2016

presence is a sound work based on the exploration of architectural resonance and audible silence. It is based on environmental recordings made in the buildings of Tabacalera, the former Spanish national tobacco factory in Madrid. Almost two centuries old and derelict for years, Tabacalera was partially reoccupied as an independent cultural community center at the beginning of 2010. 

The piece is based on recordings made during off-hours in the Summer 2010. Ambiences, barely noticeable sounds, structural vibrations transmitted through the architecture and acoustic measurements (impulse responses) in vacant spaces are the raw materials used in the composition. 

Originally created for the 5th edition of the Festival IN-SONORA, premiered with a concert at Tabacalera in October 2010.

Further versions of the piece performed live at : Wonderwerp at Studio Loos, Den Haag, MEX at Künstlerhaus Dortmund,  IAM Gallery, Madrid,  noise=noise, London. A live recording was also included in the listening programme of the festival Urban Observatory in Torun, Poland, 2012.

Excerpts from a live performance at Studio Loos, Den Haag.
(multichannel recording converted to binaural, headphones listening is recommended).

http://www.pablosanz.info/presence

presence | live excerpts (LOOS, Den Haag, 27.10.2011)

immersive ambisonic multichannel installation and live performance
ongoing project series, duration and dimensions variable

entangled explores the nonhuman worlds of the Amazon rainforest, focusing on the fascinating complexity of the continuous sonic flow created by insects, birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, plant species, soil, water and the weather.
The work facilitates a profound, active and sustained listening experience, cultivating intimate sensory encounters in which affectivity is favoured over signification and representation. The listener-participants find themselves in almost total darkness, without images or objects, within a sound field generated by a multichannel sound system.
The work is a durational composition made from several hundred hours of environmental sound materials recorded in terra firme and flooded forest (várzea) ecosystems within the territories of the Amanã and Mamirauá reserves in the central Brazilian Amazon. The fieldwork was carried out over two months in the dry season of 2015, in collaboration with local inhabitants.
entangled is experienced as a series of immersive installations and live performance events, featuring variable sonic materials and extended durations. 

The project uses higher-order Ambisonics. This audio is decoded to stereo (headphone listening encouraged).

unreleased

entangled (excerpts for headphone listening)

2019, 37 min, for headphone listening
commissioned for R{A}DIO{CUSTICA}, Czech Radio Vltava (Český rozhlas ČRo 3). first aired on 30.10.2019, 22:00, PremEdition Radioateliér. curated by Ladislav Zelený. winner of the Prix Paysage Sonore / Field Recording at the Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020.

Based on environmental recordings along the territories of Amanã and Mamirauá, in central Amazônia, strange strangers focuses on unusual listening perspectives (above, underwater, and ultrasound), inviting us to listen to (within) a singular world of vitality and non-human otherness. Listening cultivates profound encounters with other beings (life-forms, abiotic terrestrial matters, sounds...), and with our being as an other.

available on streaming
www.radiocustica.cz/pablo-sanz-strange-strangers-8114365 

www.pablosanz.info/strange-strangers

strange strangers (excerpts)

unheard, out of earshot, indistinct, imperceptible, hushed, faint, low, infrasonic, muted, soft, muffled, murmured, quiet, whispered, muttered, mumbled, silent, soundless, still, noiseless, unclear, ultrasonic 

https://phonosbcn.bandcamp.com/album/in-audible

(in)audible explores a variety of sounds on the periphery of human perception, including phenomena beyond our usual hearing range, "hidden" acoustic spaces, and "small" or unnoticed sounds. The project attempts to listen with other-than-human agents (species, energies, matters, things and technologies), engaging in alternative ways of listening. 

The aural materials featured in the composition were created using different extended listening and recording strategies. It includes electromagnetic noise recordings, geophysical and atmospheric effects, matters in states of transition, structural vibrations, ultrasound, close-up, contact and underwater bioacoustic sounds. 

All the original recordings were made at multiple locations in Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, and Slovakia from 2008 to 2012. The first version of the piece was commissioned by FONair (Cumbria, UK), with a premiere broadcast in January 2013. In addition, different headphone and spatial versions of the work (4, 8 and 16-channel) have been performed live and exhibited at multiple events in Wroclaw, Ljubljana, Brussels, The Hague, Heerlen, London, Kent, Belfast, Girona, Pontevedra, Porto, Viseu, and São Paulo, between 2013 and 2016. 

http://pablosanz.info/inaudible/

headphone listening recommended