The Mistral, is a strong wind that commonly occurs in southern France, blowing down from the north along the lower Rhône River valley toward the Mediterranean Sea. As the wind reaches the Rhône delta, gusts can often hit speeds of 130 km (about 80 miles) per hour.

This recording was taken from the bedroom window of an old "Mas" (farmhouse) just outside Barbentane (Bouches-du-Rhône) with the mics pointing directly at a Plane tree (platane)at least 250 years old.

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s (ORTF)
24.08.2021

Strong "Mistral" Wind - Barbentane, France

Inspired by the number of years it takes for each planet in our solar system to orbit around the sun, I transferred each planets’ approximate orbit into a material framework that served as the foundation of piece – chords that invert at different rates according to which planet the chord corresponds to, creating an iso-rhythmic effect. The framework then became the impetus to create additional textural layers, giving the piece small changing and alternating gestures.

Performed by The Spaceship Ensemble (NL)

Conductor: Hardy Li
Piano: Ivan Pavlov
Percussion: João Pedro Borralho
Celesta: Leo Lehtinen
Harp: Liucilè Vilimaitė/Maria Palma
Harpsichord: Christina Kwon
Accordion: Kaat Vanhaverbeke
Guitar: Antonio Peršak

Recorded by Eric Moser and Li Moonyoung

Within an Orbit (2019)

Performed at the Festival of Laurence Crane: A Tribute Concert on Monday 18th October 2021.

The title is an accidental pun on Laurence’s Bobby J for electric guitar. I was chatting with Patrick about putting the piece together and told him we might both have to muster up our best Bobby D impressions (aka Bob Dylan).

Lara Agar (violin, harmonica)
Christian Drew (guitar, harmonica)
Harry Harrison (percussion, harmonica)
Patrick Hegarty (guitar, harmonica)
Darius Paymai (harmonium, harmonica)

Bobby D

Listening with good headphones at a low to mid level is recommended.

This excerpt from a longer recording begins seven minutes after sunrise, on a Thursday morning. The recording location is at the margin of urban space. With the first wave of the storm rapidly approaching, there was no time to drive an hour or two south, where the storm would be thickest. And with rain inevitable, the microphones were placed just back from the front edge of the only available and convenient shelter: a simple structure comprising a 2.5 metre square sheet of corrugated iron suspended on four 3 metre tall posts, at the end of a large cleared area. Fortunately, the shelter was not enclosed, but completely open on all sides.

The recording turned out to be not just, or even mainly, about the sparse peals of thunder at the margins of the storm, but also about the blending and interaction of the different kinds of sounds composing the soundfield, and the different kinds of worlds that these sounds disclose. The subtle energy of the storm penetrates, embraces, focusses and unifies the soundfield into a whole; the thunder subdues anthropogenic sounds (like the jets passing over, which have just left the local airport), while opening an environing acoustic space for natural sounds (in particular, the birds inhabiting the trees and bushes surrounding the clearing, whose higher-frequency voices the low-frequency thunder does not diminish or contradict), leaving them open and free, in a way that feels peculiarly protected and peaceful, even when the storm is receding into the distance.

96/32 WAV > 48/24 FLAC.

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https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20201110-thunderstorm-meditation-night-forest-late-spring

2021.10.28 Gentle Morning Storm Meditation. Spring.

"Chapadmalal originariamente fue un territorio habitado por pampas y tehuelches, pueblos indígenas atraídos por la riqueza natural y el hermoso paisaje marítimo. Fueron los primeros en asentarse en este lugar de la mano del cacique Yampilco. Chapadmalal tiene una extensión de 650 hectáreas en el partido de general Pueyrredón y la unidad se ubica en el kilómetro 34,5 de la ruta provincial interbalnearia"

Esta grabación fue realizada un 5  de noviembre a las 15:34:40 en el Arroyo Chapadmalal (Río Chapadmalal) el cual cuenta con una gran variedad de especies dentro de un ecosistema costero el cuál compone de una serie de tipos operativos que permiten realizar un análisis pormenorizado y completo del mismo. 

Entre ellos pueden mencionarse playas, arroyos, médanos, marismas, humedales y aguas costeras. Las playas se definen como formaciones sedimentarias sujetas a una dinámica muy reactiva que se encuentran condicionadas por la presencia humana e infraestructuras turísticas (Barragán y Chica, 2013). Son particularmente importantes para la protección contra tormentas, control de la erosión, turismo y recreación, captación y purificación del agua, mantenimiento de la biodiversidad y provisión de materias primas, entre otras. Las principales presiones o impulsores de cambio sobre el ecosistema playa se derivan de impactos del cambio climático (aumento del nivel del mar, incremento de precipitaciones y evaporación, intensidad y frecuencia de tormentas), del incremento de construcciones como defensas o infraestructura turística y de la contaminación por desechos (residuos sólidos, aguas residuales), entre otros (Marshall et al., 2014).

Sapo Común (Rhinella Arenarum)Río Chapadmalal - Argentina

naviarhaiku430 – high tide

high tide
flapping in vertical waves
a lone fish

Marilyn Ward lives in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire and is married with three children and seven grandchildren. She is now retired, and her previous work was in social education with adult learning disabilities. Marilyn has been writing haiku for six years and has been published in many different online blogs and magazines, such as Cattails, Failed Haiku, Freshout Magazine, Hedgerow, Frogpond, Femku.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 6th April 2022

haiku by Marilyn Ward https://twitter.com/deer_ward

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Water Is A Unique Species Of Fish (naviarhaiku430)

A piece about the ineffable nature of time, memories, and emotions.

Our Kite

A Lapse

SenSen - De-arm

Henrik Meierkord's first vinyl release, with long-time collaborators Pawel Kobak, Marco Lucchi and Rocco Saviano.

Vinyl here: ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia

A reflection of beauty and charm, filled with ornate, organic instrumental pieces. Featuring the paintings of Valerii Bogorod.

Venusia

Vinyl

Meierkord Kobak Lucchi Saviano - Eranthis Hyemalis III

Fragments of Harmony

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece for electric guitar and fixed media for Chris Cresswell, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as SAOM, Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about over 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.