synthesisers played by Ken Ikeda
trombone & feedback played by Edward Lucas

recording, mix & photographs by E.Lucas
mastered by Rupert Clervaux
design by Earshots

recorded in 2018 at Lock Down Studios in the lost tower hamlet of Ratcliff

EAR014 - Ken Ikeda / Edward Lucas - Lost & Found [sample]

Mating Common Frogs

Chroniques de terrain est une proposition radiophonique réalisée pour le festival Archipel 2023, présentée par Mélia Roger. Merci à tous les artistes invité.es pour la générosité de leurs partages.

Lien du festival : 
https://2023.archipel.org/fr/archiradio/ 

// Liens pour chaque épisode //

#Lê Quan Ninh
https://www.lequanninh.net 
https://soundcloud.com/lequanninh 
Nastassja Martin, Croire aux fauves, Editions Gallimard 2019
http://ryoanji.free.fr/lbdlm/ 

#Noémie Delaloye
https://www.audioblog.ch
https://www.ornitho.ch
https://xeno-canto.org
https://www.faune-france.org

#Sara Lana
https://saralana.xyz/diario-sonoro

#Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger
https://soundcloud.com/gchauvot/tracks
https://meliaroger.com

#Elise Guillaume 
http://www.eliseguillaumeart.com

#Pablo Diserens
https://pablodiserens.studio

#Adèle de Baudouin
Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, Ecologies déviantes

#Nadine Schütz
https://www.echora.ch
https://www.nanterre.fr/evenement/6617/69-agenda.htm

Chroniques de terrain - #5 Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Pre-order: 12th May 2023
Release date: 23th May 2023
Format: CD, Digital

"Tender" is an album created using a different approach than my previous works, such as "Dusk to Dawn", "Sui" and "Kotoba". It was created by endlessly carving up various samples, reconstructing them, and reducing the number of sounds as much as possible.

From the finished songs, I felt a tenderness that I had never experienced before. I hope this soundscape will transport you to a place of tenderness.



Copyright © 2023 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

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A male European nightjar delivers his strange motor like song from one of his favorite song post before moving to the next one, ending his trill by a joyful wing clap.

Lyon countryside, late spring.
2023-06-10, 22h

Lom Usi Pro, Sony PCM M10

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Illustration : John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

European nightjar, Song and wing clap - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

A pack of wild Eurasian wolf howls after sunset in mountain forest of Vercors.
One male starts howling, quickly joined by the others in what might most probably be a rallying cry.

We can hear, behind the stridulating insects (Upland Green Bush-cricket), European edible dormouse squeaking and throwing things from the top of the trees.

Vercors, France, Late summer.
2023-09-15 23:30

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Illustration CC0

Eurasian Wolf, Wild pack howling in the mountains - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

In a summer night in Morvan, a duet of two tawny owls with great green bush crickets and wood crickets.

Tawny owls duet in summer - recorded in Morvan (France) w/ Gregoire Chauvot

Night Listening means sitting, through the night, in a chosen location, as still and quiet as possible, often for many hours, absorbed in purely listening, while recording. This is an excerpt from a recent Night Listening. It involves three Brushtail Possums, and one Red Fox. The responses of the Possums to the barking of the Fox are very interesting. (Don't start with the volume raised to more than 50 to 60 per cent: some of the fox barks are quite close and loud.)

Recorded on the land of the Kaurna people.

2023.12.28 Night Listening. Night Forest. Red Fox and Brushtail Possums. Early Summer.

Deux exemples du chant d'un Siffleur des montagnes de Martinique. Expl 01 oiseau isolé à la parabole. Expl02 oiseau en ambiance cardioide.

SIFFLEUR DES MONTAGNES F Deroussen

I got to spend December 2023 recording in several jungle locations in Costa Rica. The experience was wonderful and inspiring. Most of the trip was spent on Osa Peninsula, in lodges that bordered Parque Nacional Corcovado (Corcovado National Park). With nearly 2.5% of the world's species represented, many of them endemic, it is  recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.

On the same morning as the previous  Midnight Chorus recording https://soundcloud.com/soundeziner/cr-fincasueno-midnightchorus, a troop of Golden Mantled Howler Monkeys greeted the Dawn and their neighbors (and the rest of the jungle) the only way they know how. Male mantled howlers have an enlarged hyoid bone, a hollow amplifying bone near their vocal cords that gives the ability to generate great "howling"  calls that can heard for kilometers.  Howling allows the monkeys to exercise territory and remain in contact  without expending energy through movement or bearing the risks of physical confrontation. As someone who likes little more than sitting in a forest listening to nature speak, I approve of this lazing behavior.

While this howling is their most well-known vocal characteristic, I'm rather fond of the popping and grunting that warms up to the howl and pads the time in between. It's relatively quiet, and is most noticeable only when near the vocalizing howler. The best description of it that I can think of is like the "vocal fry" not uncommon in many of today's pop singers. Check it out near the start of the first round of howling around 2:40 (link in the comments)

After a first round of loud howls, the group takes a break. With what is known about Mantled Howler activity, they're likely sleeping, or maybe eating. After 20-is minutes, they pick up again for a brief session before settling back down. It's possible they've been moving during this time as they're quieter during this round. Finally, just before Sunrise at 05:38 in the morning, they pick up again, slowly building and then tapering off after nearly 30 minutes of vocal exercising.

After speaking with other recordists, I know I am far from alone as someone who loves their sound, but I I may be one of the few that enjoys waking up to their calls. Every morning I heard this in the distance or nearby was a morning I walked out to breakfast with a big silly grin on my face.

Another voice that has become a personal favorite is the Yellow-throated Toucan, with their rhythmic, bouncing song that seems to carry on forever. There is at least one singing for most of this recording, but you can get your first good listen behind the Howlers at 53:27 or skip ahead to 1:06:02 to hear two singing at each other.

Hummingbirds are abundant, and you'll hear their buzzing wings fly by and around the microphones numerous times. Also coming and going are raucous and noisy Scarlet Macaws and Red-lored Parrots, a lone Red-eyed Tree Frog, a visiting Little Tinamou, and more. 

I'll point out a few voices along the way in the comments, but I'm out of my depth when it comes to identifying neotropical birds, so I'll largely let the ecosystem speak for itself. Feel free to poke around with links in the comments to scoot around the recording, or just let it play out over your morning coffee like I do.

Feel like seeing some fancy colors? I've been playing at visualizing soundscapes lately. Check out the video for this recording on YouTube: https://youtu.be/duxU2INkyXI?si=xhIrgiHiOSOk922l

AMNS Costa Rica 01

Golden Mantled Howlers at Dawn

TINY TUNES FROM THE WILDER WORLD

How does one become a butterfly?
You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
― Trina Paulus

Quelque part au bout d’un monde, Phaune Radio se balade dans les plis du vivant, là où tout peut surgir, à la recherche de ce qui n’est pas encore – mais qui est peut-être déjà là. Dans le présent amplifié de la métamorphose, on traque et détraque le fil du temps pour franchir les seuils de ces révolutions intérieures qui nous font changer d’ère. A perte de vue, au creux de votre oreille, un jeu de miniatures sonores qui vont là où, pour devenir soi, on devient autre.

Depuis la nuit des temps – 201 millions d’années, plus précisément, le papillon est devenu maitre dans l’art de la réincarnation. De l’oeuf à l’imago, notre lépidoptère renonce successivement à au moins 3 corps avant de pouvoir prendre les airs et se rapprocher du ciel. Parce que si la chenille vorace a comme une tête de noeud, pour le papillon, essentiellement, la propriété, c’est le vol.
Récit minuscule d’une vie immense de papillon, presque sans effet.
A ce stade, tout est possible…

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How does one become a butterfly?
You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
― Trina Paulus

Somewhere at the end of a world, Phaune Radio travels in the folds of the living, where everything can arise, in search of what is not yet - but what is perhaps already there.
In the amplified present of metamorphosis, we keep tracking and bending the thread of time to cross over the thresholds of these inner revolutions that give us fresh hair.
Out of sight, right in your ear dip, here’s a set of sound miniatures that lead us to where, to become oneself, one becomes another.

Since the dawn of time - 201 million years, more precisely - the butterfly has become a master in the art of reincarnation. From the egg to the imago, our lepidoptere renounces successively at least 3 bodies before being able to take flight and get closer to the sky. Because when the voracious caterpillar has its stomach full, the butterfly, essentially, can be made up on the fly.
Tiny story of the immense life of a butterfly, almost without effect.
On this stage, everything is possible.

Tiny Tunes From The Wilder World

Tiny Tunes, Metamorphoses: Butterfly

Webradio et studio de production indépendant de podcast, Phaune Radio est une bestiole aussi curieuse que sauvage qui émet des sons étranges 24h/24 sur le web et sur vos mobiles. Phaune Radio, c’est aussi un univers de créations et bruicollages fait maison. Ici, on chatouille l’imagination. Ici, on prête à rire ou on donne à penser. Ici, c’est à vous de voir… Fauve qui peut !

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PHAUNE RADIO is a little bug as curious and wild as the strange sounds it airs 24h/7 on the world wild web & on your mobile phone. Phaune Radio is also an ever-expanding world of homemade sound creations.
Around here, we tickle your imagination.
Around here, things that cannot be possibly taken seriously can still give food for thought. Around here, that’s up to your ears.

Tiny Tunes, Metamorphoses: Butterfly

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