'Live' recorded ambient improvisation.
gear: microfreak synth, native instruments maschine, analog lab, straylight synth

Solo session - Prjct 26

This is what is sounds like when an empty rain water pillar gets filled with fresh rain water. 
Recorded with a hydrophone inside the pillar

Post Nubila Jubila (joy after rain)

Event: stereo recording under the highway bridge with lots of traffic
Location: Stadthafen, Essen (GER)
Date: 16-01-17
Gear: 2x DPA 4061, SD 744t
Micposition: app 15m under the bridge 
www.soundofessen.com

Released under CC BY 4.0 - feel free to use in your projects

Sound of Essen - 05 - A42 x Rhein-Herne-Kanal - Autobahn Bridge - 160117 - Stereo

‘Migration Patterns: Saltwater’ is a 45 minute surround sound installation (8 channels). This is an excerpt from a live performance of the work at the opening of the ‘in extremis’ exhibition at Arts House Melbourne in November 2017. All sounds featured in this piece were recorded with hydrophones in Queensland, Australia. 

"The ocean is a complex acoustic environment, where marine life is reliant on sound to communicate and survive. Sound is felt, reflected and absorbed in aquatic ecosystems. It propagates underwater at different speeds and is affected by temperature, pressure and salinity. The impacts of climate change are often very visible in terrestrial environments, yet dramatic changes in marine ecosystems are going unnoticed simply due to visibility. Increased anthropogenic noise and rising temperatures continue to cause unfathomable ecological disruptions that are dramatically transforming the acoustic ecologies of our oceans. 
 
‘Migration Patterns: Saltwater’ in an immersive sound installation exploring the fragility and complexity of marine life that live in a world of sound and vibration. Drawing on a large database of hydrophone (underwater) recordings from the coastline of Queensland, this work traces sonic migration patterns and shifting ecologies from the smallest micro crustaceans to the largest marine mammals on the planet. The recordings focus around the Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve and K’Gari (Fraser Island), a major transitory point for humpback whales on their southern migration. The whale song continues to adapt and evolve in response to changing environments and the recordings are contributing to ongoing scientific research on the value of aquatic acoustic ecology in climate action. 

This installation immerses listeners in the depths of marine ecosystems and transposes infrasonic and ultrasonic recordings into perceptible ranges. The soundscapes are layered and sculpted into an immersive sonic environment that navigates the ocean through auditory data and embodied listening. 

The creative development of Migration Patterns: Saltwater has been supported by the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University through Leah Barclay’s postdoctoral research in acoustic ecology and climate change. Additional hydrophone recordings for this project have been provided by Marine Biologist Elisa Girola at JASCO Applied Sciences.

The work premiered at Arts House Melbourne as part of ‘in extremis’ 1-10 November 2017. This exhibition explored climatic extremes are the new meteorological normal for our planet and offered human, interspecies, plant and geological perspectives, and visceral experiences of the fragility, resilience and collapse of systems and ecologies."

The exhibition catalogue with an essay from Professor Sarah Miller is available here: http://www.artshouse.com.au/events/in-extremis/

Migration Patterns: Saltwater (live performance excerpt, ‘in extremis’ exhibition opening)

Gaet'ale Pond is the saltiest body of water on Earth. It is situated in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression, arguably the hottest and driest place on the planet. Bubbles of odorless but toxic gas  are continuously emitted from the lake surface, but also from holes in the ground next to it. The area is littered with bird and insect corpses.

Recorded with Sony PCM D100.

Ethiopia - Danakil Depression - Gaet'ale Pond Boiling

Field recording of frogs, Dishoek, Netherlands.
lot of tiny adjustments of that field recording, making it a part of the music. 
home recording of several tibetan bowls.
and one synth.

Swamp

Thunder And Rain  16 - 8-2020 - 17u

Birds 1

Frogs

Herpublicatie in het kader van de serie 'klassiekers'

Gordon Hempton reist de hele wereld over met zijn microfoon op zoek naar natuurlijk geluid dat niet vervuild is door menselijke activiteit. Maar dat wordt steeds schaarser. Hij hoopt dat hij met geluidsportretten en stiltecertificaten de opmars van het menselijk geluid kan stoppen.

Lees hier het artikel:
https://decorrespondent.nl/11931/jij-dacht-dat-je-goed-kon-luisteren-luister-dan-eens-naar-deze-man-met-microfoon/1798696358613-7678870d


Muziek:
Pat Metheny - The Sound of Silence
Charlie Hunter - Behind the Wheel
Snarky Puppy - Grown Folks
John Mayer - Crossroads
Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place
Anat Cohen - And the World Weeps
György Ligeti - Atmospheres
Tom Yorke - Open Again
Carmen McRae - The Sound of Silence


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Zeno Siemens en Jacco Prantl - Leren luisteren met Gordon Hempton

Field recordings, sounds and soundscapes
Many of my recordings are nature recordings made in Zeeland, the coastal area where I live.

Post Nubila Jubila (joy after rain)

Roger van der Veken

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