The Host Tale

The concept behind the joint-venture consisting of d.b.h and the two turntable wizards Chrisfader and Testa is quite simple: Take a specific genre of music, sample and flip it into danceable beats. 

In the case of their second EP "Dabkeh", named after a popular Mediterranean form of line-dancing, the subject of the musical explorations is the Arab world. The three guys from RLS spent quite some time mining old vinyl or cassettes to create the tracks on this EP, in the hopes of getting some wild Dabkeh moves started on dancefloors worldwide!

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Beirut Daze w/ Ernesto chahoud & Radio AlHara 261121

This is a 66 minute audio essay on The Travelling Archive, an archive of field recordings from Bengal, written and presented by singer and writer Moushumi Bhowmik. The essay was written for presentation on Baba Betar, an internet radio, that partnered Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography 2021 and was hosted by Arfun Ahmed. The theme of the festival was Shunyo, which could mean both zero, emptiness or the point from which to start all over again.

In this essay, Moushumi remembers people and places by listening to voices from past and continuing journeys within and around Bengal. Bengal is both a physical space and a space of the mind in this story. Wistfully told, it draws the listener into a very personal field of listening by weaving song with sound and sound with silence. Moushumi sits in her room in Kolkata, and as she talks, recording herself, the night moves towards dawn. Dogs bark, the last trains pass through the station, a plane goes swimming in the sky, people call out, they open and shut doors and windows, while slowly in the dark a map unfurls.

This soundtrack has been mixed by Sabyasachi Pal. 

The voices we hear come in the following sequence:
1. Chobi MelaX team, hawa mithai sellers and others at the Dhanmondi Lake tea stall area. Recorded by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Redmi phone in February 2019
2. Aseer Arman’s song playing through speakers during The Travelling Archive installation at  Abdur Razzaq Biddapeeth, Dhanmondi. Recorded by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Redmi phone in February 2019
3.Barindra Das recorded at Shankar Hotel, Silchar on a PD150 camera by Sudheer Palsane in August 2005
4.Naseema recorded in Dhaka on a Sony minidisc recorder by Moushumi Bhowmik in December 2004.
5.Binoy Roy recording from cassette Pranto Prantarer Lokgaan Volume 8 of series Shikorer Sandhane, produced by Bhromora, Kolkata in 1993.
6.Putul Sarkar recorded in Gouripur, Assam by Sudheer Palsane on a PD150 camera in August 2005.
7.Deben Bhattacharya voice from interview with Aly Zaker for Ekushey TV, Dhaka in February 2001. 
8.Muhammad Safi recorded by Deben Bhattacharya in 1971, released on album Echoes of Bangladesh. (Fremeaux, 2008) 
9.Munda women of Munshigonj, Sundarban, Bangladesh in conversation with Moushumi Bhowmik recorded by Sukanta Majumdar on a Sound Device 633 recorder with a Sennheiser 418 mic in January 2018.
10. Abdul Hamid Jalali and others recorded in his home in Sylhet by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Sony minidisc recorder by Moushumi in December 2004
11.Ranjit recorded in Rajghat Tea Garden, Srimangal, Bangladesh by Moushumi Bhowmik on a Sony minidisc recorder in December 2004. 
12.Naren Hansda and Chapalabala recorded in Jahajpur, Purulia on a Sony minidisc recorder by Sukanta Majumdar in February 2007.
13. Sultana and Jadab Sarkar recorded in Sonai, Cachar, Assam on a PD150 camera by Sudheer Palsane in August 2005.
14. Nityagopal Das Baul song from album Inner Knowledge released by Real World Records in 1997. 
15. Chintamoni recorded by Soumya Chakravarti on a Sony TC D5M cassette recorder in Santiniketan in 1984.
16.Hajera Bibi recorded in Faridpur on a Sony minidisc recorder by Sukanta Majumdar in April 2006.
17. Bhaktadas recorded by Sukanta Majumdar at home on a computer in Kolkata in 2010 (mistakenly remembered as 2009 in the essay).

Songs   Grow  Out  Of  The  Land

This piece is part of a larger project (hebrides-suite.co.uk) that attempts to both explore and communicate something about history and memory related to the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, through sound. It uses a mixture of monologues, field recordings and interviews collected during a number of trips to the Outer Hebrides as well as material from existing oral history archives.

The wind is ever present in the Outer Hebrides activating sound in everything: - in the trees at Stornoway castle; blowing dried leaves down a deserted road on a empty Stornoway Sunday; in the reeds at Luskentyre, Harris with wild geese flying overhead; making the gate at the ruined and deserted Ormacleit Castle, South Uist sing a song that is repeated and varied in numerous gates, fences and sheep pens all over the Hebrides; whipping up a huge surf at beaches all over the west side; making the empty of containers at Griminish harbour on North Uist rattle and thunder; driving wind turbines mad …….and constantly buffeting the microphone from all sides.

In 2006 I visited the Communn Eachdradh Nis (Ness Historical Society) on the West side IMG_2708of Lewis. In between searching though the immense amount of material on croft histories as well as videos of herring girls, hand spinning and road dances, Alison Brown and Mairi MacKenzie (who was kindly translating from the Gaelic) chatted to me about the proposed wind farm which I had seen the plans for in a shop front in Stornoway. At that time apparently almost every one was against this proposal for a huge amount of windmills stretching across the moor from Tolsta to Ness which would be able to be seen from the Ullapool - Stornoway ferry as well as heard over a wide area. These plans for one of Europe's largest windfarms on Barvas Moor were rejected by the Scottish government in early 2008. In 2012 a much smaller (36 instead of 181 turbines) and relocated scheme to land west of Stornoway was given the go ahead.

Nowadays every inhabited island seems to have at least one community hall for concerts, ceilidhs, Scottish dancing, sales of work, yoga etc and many of them are running from their own wind turbines.

Gaoth’ is one of the many the Scottish Gaelic words for ‘wind’. The Outer Hebrides are the most strongly coherent Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) speaking area in the world. Gaelic is a Celtic language related to Welsh, Cornish and Breton. In the 1901 and 1921 censuses, all parishes were reported to be over 75% Gaelic speaking, By 1971 most areas were still more than 75% Gaelic speaking and it remains a relatively strong in spite of a continued decline. In the 2001 census 61.1% of the population of the Outer Hebrides spoke Gaelic (compared with 1.2% in the whole of Scotland). A handful of Gaelic speakers can be found in the United States, Canada and Australia most of whom are descended from nineteenth century emigrants.

Gaoth (Wind) 9’59”

Gaoth (Wind) (Extract)

Recientemente nos hicimos de un micrófono AMBEO VR de Sennheiser, y obvio que nos salimos a jugar con él a distintos lugares. Aquí algunas pruebas de las grabaciones en Formato B.

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Tre Fontane

As a composer one of the most rewarding activities is teaching people about soundscape composition. In my workshops participants learn about the soundscape and take part in field recording and composition activities. These workshops bring a variety of people together all with an eagerness to learn something new while sharing their own creative experiences. Their own experiences of their sonic environment and connections to place offer the composer a fresh insight into a new place, such as Trafford, Manchester.

This piece is a celebration of cultural diversity, a showcase of creative ideas through the exploration of our sonic environment. The recordings gathered from these activities have been used to create a new soundscape, one in which is inspired by the creative explorations of the participants during the workshops.

I would like to thank all of the participants who attended the workshops and the staff at Seed Studios for making this happen. I would also like to thank Gemma Bass and Gary Farr for inviting me to collaborate with them on this project.

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Cathy Lane is a composer, sound artist and academic. Some of her  work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse.

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