Name: 20221119 - for Arushi Mudgal by Background Hum
Duration: 20 min 36 s
Description: A thank you to Arushi, for saying "yes" and coming to Norwich to dance Odissi in the Marlpit Community Centre. The foundation of the piece is the "Boings" script on the Norns Shield by Monome. I was almost finished, when I remembered that I had copies of the music Arushi used to accompany her dance pieces. "Raam Haun" fits very well. Headphones are always best.

A thank you to Arushi, for saying "yes" and coming to Norwich to dance Odissi in the Marlpit Community Centre. The foundation of the piece is the "Boings" script on the Norns Shield by Monome. I was almost finished, when I remembered that I had copies of the music Arushi used to accompany her dance pieces. "Raam Haun" fits very well. Headphones are always best.

20221119 - for Arushi Mudgal

'after-image I: nothing stands still' is the first single from Liis Ring's new album 'Homing', coming out on April 28th in collaboration with Breton Cassette

Pre-order the album at: https://canigourecords.bandcamp.com/album/liis-ring-homing

Homing

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Liis Ring - after-image I: nothing stands still

The steel made staircase to the isolated windmill of Kallioholma Islet in Tahkoluoto Finland "playing organ" in a moderate southeasterly wind. In the background the sea is keeping a heavy swell. 

12 m/s SE, -2C, snow.

(Spaced omnis, MKH8020, double windshields, SD702, Flac)



The Stairway - 13/2/2016 - to a desolated Windmill

Inspired by (copied from?) Trilogie de la Mort

Various

20160815 - Eliane

A soundscape opera about relocation, urban space and gentrification.

This release is dedicated to the people and organisations in Brixton working to protect all that is unique about this district.

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Brixton was my introduction to London when I moved here almost two years ago. I had never heard of Brixton before I arrived, nor had I spent any time in London. I ended up here simply because a friend of a friend knew someone with a flat. This document represents the ways I have come to know this district, and through it a little of the rest of London. My work has always begun with the soundscape, and Brixton offers a remarkable one. From outdoor markets, bicycle sound systems, shop stereos and buskers to booming car hi fi systems, sirens, car washes and people simply talking and taking up space on the streets, Brixton is a noisy place. It was through listening to Brixton that I also came to hear voices being raised about how much this area had changed, about rising rents and neglected public housing, about how many people who grew up or used to have businesses here can no longer afford to stay in Brixton. I learned about the role of Brixton as a centre of Black British culture, resistance and musical production, and about how as Brixton has become increasingly gentrified the ways in which some of the sounds associated with Brixton's history and communities were being lost from this area. I learnt about some of the new silences of Brixton. I don't want to pretend that this release could ever be a definitive documentation of Brixton's soundscape, there are many far better situated than me to understand all the nuances of this area. This album is simply about the ways I came to know Brixton through listening, and the respect I gained through this process for the many struggles being waged in this district to maintain it as a community. This album is about arriving somewhere to find it in the midst of major upheaval in its social fabric, and about examining my own role in this as a new white Australian addition to the area. 
A soundscape reveals a lot about a place, through its presences, its silences, its rhythms and its pauses. A soundscape is forever being made by us all, it stitches us together in ways both subtle and sometimes overwhelming. I think in both its openness and fragility the soundscape can reveal something about the process of community making, and its sensitivity to change offers both opportunities and risks.

Kate Carr, Brixton, London.

I ended out moving to Brixton - Kate Carr (excerpt) out March 9

What does it take to get “well”? When we think about wellness, especially right now, we tend to think of it as everything we do to make our lives and bodies healthy. Rather than defining health through the negation of sickness, wellness advocates press that being “well” is an ongoing process of maintenance and care. But so much of what we think about wellness is so wrapped up in watching and being watched—through fitness apps, Instagram, bureaucracy, or just the day-to-day experience of going to the grocery store.

On this episode of Popaganda, Soleil will be talking with a few folks about that peculiar facet of wellness. First, food writer Serena Maria Daniels shares her experience of growing up in a family that participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and how it feels to apply for the program as an adult. Then she talks to Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, assistant professor of American Studies at Brown University, about the ways in which Native American communities have fought for control over their food supply. Finally, eating disorder specialist Renee McGregor walks her through the trouble with “clean eating,” and the ways in which food bloggers can inadvertently encourage disordered eating.

Popaganda: Watching What You Eat

A very cold day (-17C) on the sea ice outside Trutholma Reef with a just distinctive swell under the ice.  Microphones in a crack beside a block on the ice, recording also the water and the out coming air from the the squeaking ice fields.

Updating www.baltic.fi

(Sennheiser KE4, Sony D100, no eq, no ampl, 24bit flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Ice Sleep - 24/2/2018 - Trutholma Reef

On today’s show, Soleil will be talking about one of her favorite subjects: the act of faking it. Why do we do it, and what does it mean when we accuse others of doing it? And what does the impostor tell us about the boundaries we erect in order to define ourselves and our place in the world? To answer those questions, she’ll take on the Portsmouth Sinfonia, the phenomenon of the “fake geek girl,” Rachel Dolezal, and the awful—but perhaps enlightening—film White Chicks.

We have two guests on the show this week: first, Soleil talks with Michi Trota, managing editor of the two-time Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine, about how to it feels to be pushed out of a community is supposed to be all about celebrating outcasts. Then Soleil speaks with Amalia Nicholson—a content producer and cohost of the podcast Borrowed Interest, a show that focuses on the experiences of Black women in advertising—about everyone’s favorite Wayans Brothers movie (besides Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, of course).

Popaganda: Faking It

Recorded at Pu Sah Zen Buddhist temple in Taichung Taiwan
大里區永隆路147號

Singing bowls, singing birds and fountain, recorded with my Tascam DR-40

Audio Postcards

Singing Bowls

Audio Postcard Taiwan, Taichung, 菩薩寺 Pu Sah Temple, 大里區永隆路147號

This week, Dahlia and Amy survived another week where hell is empty and all the devils are here on Earth. It’s been a couple weeks of horrifying news and the last thing we need to hear is how progressive folks need to be civil to the inhumane Right. It feels the the least possible harm that Stephen Miller, Kirstjen Nielsen, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders can face is to have their restaurant meals interrupted while they’re supporting an administration that’s tearing families apart at the border and putting them in detention centers. More in bad news: Screw SCOTUS. But in an attempt at some fun: a new Amy vs Dahlia!

Backtalk: We Don't Need to be Civil to Inhumane People

Here's another recording from Kubah National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia. The only editing to this is a slight adjustment to equalisation.

Download the full 15 minute version https://wildambience.com/albums/dusk-by-the-frog-pond

Dusk by the Frog Pond

Dusk by the Frog Pond - Borneo

I experiment with field recordings and interesting instruments. Sometimes the two get mixed together. I play various electronic things in a duo with my friend Robyn-Astrid (Kawako). Background Hum + Allysse Riordan = Humilis.

20221119 - for Arushi Mudgal

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