Stereo excerpt of Nýey
4.1 sound installation

Mix: Philippe Charriot


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Image © Loftmyndir Ltd. / Aerial photograph of Surtsey, July 27th 2012

Nýey excerpt

Since ancient times historical writings, scientific reports, and indigenous myths have reported audible sounds that accompany the northern lights. Recent studies suggest that these sounds occur during geomagnetic storms and most likely do not originate from the visual aurora. Nonetheless, the existence of these sounds has always been controversial. Most of the scientists who were concerned with this phenomenon left their study in the 1960s. At this time the infrasound was measured and accepted as the only sound connected to the northern lights. Despite all opposition, the Finnish Professor Unto K. Laine from the Aalto University in Helsinki started to study aurora related sounds in the late 1990s and has since collected evidence to prove their existence. His material is still unpublished and the question about how those sounds are produced remains unresolved. 

Driven by the words of those who have encountered and/or studied aurora related sounds, All Depends on the Sun delves into this phenomenon with the aim to open up wider reflections on sound and listening. 

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Sound piece, 27'19'' © 2015
Originally commissioned by ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit, for Soundproof
Broadcast date: June 19th, 2015

Words by Tuula Karpinen, Dr. Antti Kero, Dr. Unto K. Laine and Janne Särkelä.
Additional music by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. VLF recordings by Tero Raita. Mix by Philippe Charriot.

Special thanks to Felix Blume.

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Originally produced by the Creative Audio Unit of the national Australian radio broadcaster ABC, for Soundproof, with support from the Cultural Fund of Südtirol, Deutschlandradio Kultur, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Goethe-Institute Finland, the Finnish Society of Bioart (Ars Bioarctica Residency) and the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory. In 2015 the piece was nominated for the Prix Europa in the category radio documentary.

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ALL DEPENDS ON THE SUN excerpt

What if the 'invisible' beings Amerindian peoples have been interacting with have more in common with microbes than with the notions 'spirits' and 'souls' introduced by the missionaries during the colonial effort of conversion?

And what if shamans have been smelling, seeing, hearing and experiencing these beings for more than five thousand years?

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Featuring a conversation in-between a human and microbe, "The Forest Within - Within The Forest" explores how knowledge about microbiology can be found encoded in Amerindian narratives and understanding of the natural world.

[ A blood vessel can be perceived as a river and also as a tree. That depends on whether you acknowledge it from the perspective of a microbe or from the perspective of a human. ]

Thought as both a multispecies documentary and a fabulative sound narrative, the piece interleaves human and microbial histories, perspectives, spaces and times; exploring borders, frictions and symbioses in-between acoustic and synthetic, abstract and concrete, single organism and environment, the guest and the host, the self and the other. The River and the Tree.
more info here: islandssongs.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

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"The Forest Within - Within The Forest" combines field recordings from the Amazonian rainforest, human and non-human voices and mimicries, Ciat-Lonbarde synthesizers driven by biological processes, ringing stones continuums, and radio waves recordings possibly generated by bacteria.

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Sound piece (English version), 39' © 2019 by Islands Songs

Production: Autoproduction, originally commissioned by ar/ge kunst and Deutschlandfunk Kultur/Klangkunst
Text: César E. Giraldo Herrera, Islands Songs
Voices: Lucrecia Dalt, César E. Giraldo Herrera
Mix: Philippe Charriot

"The Forest Within - Within The Forest" is a mutation of César Enrique Giraldo Herrera’s book "Microbes and other Shamanic Beings" (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).

Special thanks to Acitam (Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Trapecio Amazónico, Leticia), Aticoya (Asociación indígena Tikuna, Cocama y Yagua de Puerto Nariño), Archipel Productions, ar/ge kunst, Casimiro Ahue, Camilo Giraldo Angel, Miguel Bajo, José Becerra, Felix Blume, Fabian Brinkmann, Enrico Centonze,  Charo Calvo, Isabella von Dellemann, Elektronisches Studio TU Berlin, Marcus Gammel, Pierre-Yves Gauthier, Daniela Gomez, Emanuele Guidi, Maria del Mar, Rodolfo Mesa Morales, William Mozombite, Catalina Ramos, Reserva Natural Tanimboca, Leticia and all the beings of El Progreso, Puerto Nariño and San Martín de Amacayacu.

Produced with support from the Cultural Fund of Südtirol.

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Islands Songs (Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner) live in Berlin and Paris where they have worked together since 2012. Their interest is drawn to territories that transgress anthropocentric and Eurocentric systems of value and move the boundaries of the unknown. Through a syncretic approach to sound – situated between documentary, sound art, and electroacoustic music – and with recorded sound material as a base, they undertake long-term projects that result in radio pieces, sound installations, performances, and publications.

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