Nadia hurricane and wind chimes

This is a stereo excerpt of my multichannel installation "Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis". The installation is an exploration of the underwater soundscape of the North Sea. For this piece I recorded at the southern (mainly coast of Belgium) and northern (coast around Bergen in Norway) borders of the North Sea. 

The North Sea is the busiest and therefore loudest sea in the world. The installation researches the difficult relationship between biological sounds and man made noise. 

"Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis" was awarded an honourable mention by the 2021 Sound Of the Year Awards in the "Composed with Sound" category. 

More information about the piece can be found here:
http://stijndemeulenaere.be/zijlijn.html

Zijlijn stereo Excerpt

credits:
field recordings by jason hovatter september
thru april 2021 primarily in and around Portland, Oregon as well as
Camp Sherman Oregon, yellowstone national park and Delmar
Maryland.

cassette coming soon!
credits
released April 27, 2022

FIELD - fall/winter 21 mixtape

Jason Hovatter - FIELD - fall/winter 21 Side A

The first track from my album, "Creation And The Flood - Sounds From The Amazon" available to stream.

https://open.spotify.com/album/183GDL188dUtEFLWZWvX1I?si=WZP91bIlRLixvJYbJDt-7Q
https://geo.music.apple.com/ie/album/_/1702705133?app=music&at=1000lHKX&ct=odesli_http&itscg=30200&itsct=odsl_m&ls=1&mt=1
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kGNikb5CiqHwM1brAm-s_uUzV2yzwjuJo&si=3parV44GPtnqhQUI
https://music.amazon.ca/albums/B0CFRFFLFR?marketplaceId=A2EUQ1WTGCTBG2&musicTerritory=CA&ref=dm_sh_9eVnfXxv7SSB0wkJMbkt69ppJ

Fish Tree - Sounds From The Amazon

Enjoy some relaxing rain I recorded this past spring.

https://www.aurahealth.io/track/asmr-rain-on-a-tin-roof-3-min-nicholas-mcmahan?modelSource=popular-model&score=0.5975145104944573&sentFrom=Coach&sectionTrackIndex=0

ASMR - Rain On A Tin Roof

Snippet from an overnight hydrophone recording at the Slikken Van Flakkee (Grevelingen, NL).

Snaps, schrimp and distant trawler at Slikken Van Flakkee

Recorded in January 2024, Ulcumano EcoLodge, Oxapampa, Peru.

Bay Antpitta (Grallaria capitalis) Tororoi Bayo

Yeruvás/Rufous-capped Motmots (Baryphthengus ruficapillus) calling and duetting at dawn.

Recorded in February 2024 in Mbaracayú Forest Reserve, Paraguay

Dawn Of The Motmots (excerpt)

I recorded the song of the Common Nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos, using a Sound devices 302 combined with a Roland R05. As a microphone I used a Parabolic Microphone I built as DIY, with a PUI AOM 5024 capsule inside in mono configuration.

Common Nightingale Song - Sound Devices 302 - Roland R05 MONO recording

Nightingale singing with cuckoo who is exploring the place looking for the nightingale's nest.
Tascam X8, Naturesound.it parabolic microphone with AOM5024 stereo capsules. 

Common Nightingale (with Tascam X8)singing with Cuckoo looking for the nightingale's nest

Located at just a fraction of the European Route E25, called the Rijksweg 20 or A20. This motorway is supported by several overpasses through The Netherlands, of which one of them in the Rotterdam-The Hague metropolitan area forms the base of this piece.

While the fast pace of humanity is causing hot asphalt and infrasound to move through the concrete, underneath the overpass a slower pace is causing more innocent reflections. Captured impulse responses from these reflections create a somewhat terrifying and slowly building-up reverb scape. Dynamic impacts from the A20’s bouncing surface, caused by the passing vehicles, result in irregular rhythmic echo’s to scatter beneath the construction.

All these never-ending sound waves are occasionally dominated by several other sound sources. Car horns translate the human’s frustration from within, while they try to balance it out with amplified FM frequencies. However, this more pleasing part of the electromagnetic spectrum gets interfered often with higher frequencies from passing metros and trains. These signals being pitched-down, form the cold and resonant chords through the piece. 

The massive amounts of weight rolling over the railway next to the overpass,  result in ground-shaking infrasound all over the area. Rumbling frequencies vibrate schematically through the concrete pillars. Moments later, fireworks suddenly feed the already existing sonic-tangle, followed by emergency signals that appear no less distinctive without its optical parts.

https://www.sem-zeeman.com/a20-e25
https://semzeeman.bandcamp.com/track/a20-e25-5192393-n-440872-o

The recordings are made near the Brandersbrug in Schiedam, The Netherlands on March 30th 2023. All sounds are recorded with two unidirectional condenser microphones in X/Y setup, a geophone, contact microphone and electromagnetic receiver.

A20/ E25 [51.92393° N, 4.40872° O]

✨ Soundscape & Ambient 

info.sem.zeeman@gmail.com

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Sem Zeeman is a field recordist and sound artist focused to capturing both the auditory beauty and the pollution of our environment. His work uncovers the harmonies and dissonances from everyday life. In a world where vision dominates sensory perception, he challenges listeners to rediscover this richness of the sounds that surround us all. 

Inspired by nature, history and materials, each of his sound pieces serves as a unique snapshot of a specific place and moment in time. His sonic landscapes transcend the limits of human perception by capturing hidden sounds — such as infrasound, ultrasonic frequencies, and electromagnetic signals.

Sem’s work embodies both an aesthetic and a societal dimension. His compositions invite reflection and raise awareness of contemporary ecological, technological and social issues. By using environmental sound as a universal language, he seeks to restore the connection between humans and their surroundings.

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💿 RELEASES
- "A Soundwalk Through Budapest 
[47.499553° N, 19.054739° O]"
- "Noorderhoofd [51​.​98021° N, 4​.​11153° O]"

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🍃 Organic Dance Music as https://soundcloud.com/okin-omis

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A20/ E25 [51.92393° N, 4.40872° O]

Sem Zeeman

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