Name: Sound Recordist Jim Metzner Has Been Listening To The Planet For Decades. Here’s What He’s Learned. by SciFri
Duration: 17 min 2 s
Description: Jim Metzner, a pioneer of science radio, looks back on his lifetime of recordings, now heading for the Library of Congress.

Jim Metzner, a pioneer of science radio, looks back on his lifetime of recordings, now heading for the Library of Congress.

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Sound Recordist Jim Metzner Has Been Listening To The Planet For Decades. Here’s What He’s Learned.

Descubrimiento

rebirth

Disquiet Junto Project 0566: Outdoor Furniture Music
The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air

I listened to some of Eric Saties tracks for musique d’ameublement, like Tapisserie en fer forgé and knew, it has to be very repetitive. I was lazy and took a track I was already working on and cut away everything non-repetitive, plus I changed the instrumentation to something more orchestral and Satie-esq and the key to Am (in which Carrelage Phonique seems to be). I wanted it to have beauty and regular irregularities. I added some field recordings (from France ;-) to give a feeling of listening to this musique d'aménagement de jardin outdoors. Like all good wallpaper, the pattern repeats loopable.

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Track image by DALL·E: "Versailles style garden with repetitive hedgerows, hedgerows formed like furniture, hedgerows of different size, oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich" and yes it ignored a lot of my prompt.

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More on this 566th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Outdoor Furniture Music (The Assignment: Imagine the ur-ambient Erik Satie musique d’ameublement concept en plein air) — at: https://disquiet.com/0566/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0566-outdoor-furniture-music/

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The Comfort Of Hedges [disquiet0566]

A track made for a choreography by Zezé Kolstad for the Ballet Laboratory project. Performed at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, August 19th 2009.

(Note: The track art has nothing to do with the original production. It's just a product of my imagination with a little help from some artificial intelligence engine)

Ballet Sketch (2009)

This magnificent album by the incomparable Hindustani vocalist Amir Khan, showcasing his deep, mellow baritone voice that effortlessly expressed intensity, sensuality, creativity, dignity and glowing majesty, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/01/india-inde-amir-khan-khayal-by-ustad.html

Khayal by Ustad Amir Khan – His Master's Voice – EASD 1331

Amir Khan – Kahan Jaage Raat Jogiya More Ghar Aaye – Raga Lalit

L'emprunte d'Encyclie

Euangelion

Kermes

There are some beats here, just for a change. They are made with some silicone membranes whose normal use would be to cover food bowls. Soma ROAT and Aqusmatiq Dedalus Delay add a little of controlled chaos.

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north atlantic oscillation

Species: great tit, song thrush, great spotted woodpecker (drumming), middle spotted woodpecker, Eurasian nuthatch, carrion crow, Eurasian blue tit, Eurasian blackcap, grey-headed woodpecker, Eurasian treecreeper, common wood pigeon, common starling, common pheasant, mallard, mute swan, common chiffchaff, stock dove, marsh tit.

Location: Plačkův les (floodplain forest), Dawn Chorus, Czech Republic
Date: 2. 4. 2017
Starting of recording: 6.13h
Temperature: 8-10 C
Photographer: Dr. Julius Klejdus

Dawn Chorus - Plačkův les

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Sound Recordist Jim Metzner Has Been Listening To The Planet For Decades. Here’s What He’s Learned.

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