Name: Railroad Drone by saamleng
Duration: 13 min 5 s
Description: High-voltage pole near the railroad tracks. Recorded with LOM Geofón and MixPre3.

High-voltage pole near the railroad tracks. Recorded with LOM Geofón and MixPre3.

Railroad Drone

DONG   ZHOU    ---    VIOLIN  AND  EFFECTS

DROR    ELIMELECH    ---    ELECTROACOUSTIC

LAMENTATION  2   --  COLLABORATION  OF  DROR  ELIMELECH AND  DONG  ZHOU

Lock is a track from my latest album, Expanse. It's my most recently recorded music, completed in January and February 2022. It was made during a time of reflection and deeper understanding, new ideas leading to new discoveries. Emotive, peaceful and atmospheric, I hope the music helps bring some calm and space to everyone who listens. 

https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/expanse

All proceeds from the album will go to the charity Voices of Children in Ukraine to provide psychological and psychosocial support to children caught up in the tragedy of the events unfolding - much love and solidarity with you all x 
You can find more information here voices.org.ua/en/ or instagram.com/fieldswefound 

The artwork was made alongside the music using purely analogue techniques and will be available as limited edition of 25 handmade books which can be bought with the physical album. 

The books consist of eleven original artworks, two covers and one piece per track. Professionally printed on recycled paper and personally constructed using a handmade paper cover. 

All tracks produced using the following equipment, performed and recorded live to 1/4” tape on a Revox B77 Mk2. 

Fender Precision Bass, Yamaha acoustic guitar, violin, upright piano, E-mu Emax HD, Kawai K3M, Ciat Lonbarde Cocoquantus and Plumbutter, eurorack ‘easelʼ based on Mannequins and Make Noise modules, eurorack system based around Rossum Assimil8tor and ALM Squid Sample, Squarp Pyramid, Montreal Assembly/Bastl/Moog/OTO/Chase Bliss/Elektron/Eventide FX units, Roland RE-201, Nagra 4.2, Yamaha MT120S 
credits
released March 1, 2022 

Music, artwork and books by Fields We Found 

Thanks to: 

Ian Hawgood for the mastering and always bringing out the best in my music 
Craig Tattersall for the support and advice on the design and print layout 
Imogen for additional piano 
Clare, Imogen and Lucy for all the love and understanding x

Lock - from the album Expanse

Sama @ La Muse en circuit / sonic protest | Recorded by Maya Rosa

Samā‘ (from Turkish semâ) refers to spiritual hearing. It also refers to a roundabout dance of Sufi whirling dervishes. ACOUSTIC SPIRAL: The performance consists of a spinning loudspeaker that release drones in order to sculpt the sound space. These continuous sounds are developed beforehand in situ, depending on the resonance of the room. The spin draws an invisible spiral with the speed and length of cable given by the performer while revealing the acoustic properties of the place.

Sama @ La Muse en circuit / sonic protest | Recorded by Maya Rosa

Tout petits humains sur une toute petite planète dans un univers infini. 
Nous sommes la mer et la mer est nous.

Tout se joue dans la mer.

Dans cette diversité, dans ce bouillon de culture est apparue la vie, grâce à un peu d’eau et d’oxygène.

Je vous invite à fermer les yeux et tendre l’oreille : à l’écoute des ces tout petits êtres qui peuplent les océans et opèrent La symphonie du vivant on peut comprendre les enjeux qui doivent nous préoccuper : La fragilité des écosystèmes marins nous révèle surtout notre propre fragilité. Et elle est entre nos propres mains.

Small Beings est une oeuvre créée dans le cadre d’une coproduction du GMEM, GMEA et de la Compagnie KARWAN, dans le cadre du projet La Convocation des Sirènes diffusée dans une balise de mer installée de manière pérenne sur le port de pêche de Port-Vendres. Les sons ont été gracieusement donnés par la bioacousticienne Lucia DI IORIO de l’Institut Chorus.

Plus d'informations : www.julierousse.com/small-beings
Soutenez les artistes, achetez leur musique >> https://julierousse.bandcamp.com/album/small-beings

Small Beings

SMALL BEINGS

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A LIGHT IN THE NIGHT - tempest

Performed by WDR Sinfonieorchester with conductor Ilan Volkov

avgår, pågår

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes is a book and sound project.
http://www.rienakajima.com/becomingsounds.html

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers and PLAY IT LOUD :)

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics.
Based on a short film by Peter Tscherkassky (you can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI). 
Commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course. Supported by Ulysses Network, co-funded by Creative Europe Programm.

Live Recording at Centralstation, Darmstadt 2018 
NIKEL Ensemble (Brian Archinal, Yaron Deutsch, Antoine Francoise, Patrick Stadler)
Sound Engineer: Alfred Reiter
Recording: Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics [Please, use headphones!!]

Composed for Wave Field Synthesis at Game of Life, Den Haag, NL, primarily with non-standard synthesis processes.

Textonics

ÂKÂSHA, for string chamber orchestra performed by Ensemble Allegria on 18 September, 2020, in Oslo, Norway. Recording by Wolden Lyd.

The meaning of Âkâsha derives from a description that I found in the book Raja-Yoga And Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms written by Swami Vivekananda in 2012:

“The whole universe was composed of two materials, one of which is called Akasha. It is the omnipresent, all-penetrating existence. Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out if this Akasha. It is the Akasha that becomes the air, that become the liquids, that becomes the solids; it is the Akasha that becomes the sun, the earth, the moon, the stars the comets; it is the Akasha that becomes the human body, the animal body, the plants, every form that we see, everything that can be sensed, everything that exits; it can not be perceived, it is so subtle that it is beyond all ordinary perception; it can only be seen when it has become gross, has taken from. At the beginning of creation there is only this Akasha. At the end of the cycle the solids, the liquids, and the gases all melt into the Akasha again, and the next creation similarly proceeds out if this Akasha”.

This became a source of inspiration for a new work, exploring continuous interwoven sonic entities of gradually changing timbre based on textile patterns. My intention was to create distinct patterns of timbre, which develop from one noisy material into seven independent timbral layers, later transforming into one monolithic soundscape.

The work is dedicated to Anton Lukoszevieze.

ÂKÂSHA_Ensemble Allegria

From 'Mountains Become Stepping Stones,' out Dec. 4 on NNA Tapes

> https://hazalelif.bandcamp.com/album/mountains-become-stepping-stones

Follow Elif here: soundcloud.com/hazalelif

Elif Yalvaç - Brocken Spectre

Saamleng is a label dedicated to field recordings.

releases:
Mirt - Bikes in Hanoi, Bats in Phong Nha (CD 2014)
Rafał Kołacki - Istanbul. Aux oreilles d'un etranger (CD 2015)
Mirt - Kmer & Siam Recordings (CD 2016)

distribution: MonotypeRec

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