Using the Zoom6 XY binaural microphone for the forest ambience and a generic cardiod studio microphone placed upon leaves near the main gate to the anthill. Recorded at about 8:30 am. They do become more active and louder (and aggressive) as the day warms up.

Red Ant Army + Birds near Karczewko 389

Outside with yours truly.  💜💜💜
with love, 
LP

Headphones On 01 - Outside with LP 01

Soomaa National Park was established on December 8, 1993 to protect the marshes, floodplain meadows and forests of the south-western part of Central Estonia. The recording started at 3.30am. The photo was taken from exactly the same point where the microphones were located.

Tascam Dr-100 MK III digital recorder
An Azden microphone pre-amplifier/mixer
Handmade phantom powered Primo Microphones with EM172 capsules. 24 bit 48kHz

Soundscape Of The River Lemmjõgi May 23, 2022. Soomaa National Park, Estonia

Seagull on helium - PENTALOOPS

July 3rd, middle of the night, calm, warm, on a background chorus of crickets and katydids, frogs start at about 10s into this excerpt.  

Recorded with Earsight mics (Immersive Soundscapes) into a Zoom F3 recorder.  Applied a -15 dB low-shelf to attenuate fireworks booms (4th of July weekend), no other filter or processing.

Warm summer night - frog chorus

a track by Marco Lucchi (based on an original pattern of Terry Riley) reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Rainbowing

EveryDayWreck (A118)

X-Gorgeous Hell

Filtered sax and synth, ambient track. Made all inside iPhone.

Inner map

Perception of the Non-Visible

Perception 0f The Non-Visible

METALLAGES
(For flute, clarinet, horn in F, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass)

Ensemble MUSIKFABRIK
Conductor Mariano Chiacchiarini
Concert de l'Académie Voix Nouvelles au Festival de Royaumont 2020

METALLAGES (2020)

Born in Thessaloniki (Greece) in 1988, Sofia Avramidou graduated from the composition department of Aristotle University (Bachelor's and Master's degrees, 2009-2014) and from the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (specialized Master's degree, 2014-2016), receiving the highest distinction in the class of Professor Ivan Fedele, as well as an excellence scholarship from the "Alexandros Onassis Foundation”.
In Paris, in 2020, she graduated from IRCAM's "Cursus de composition et d'informatique musicale".
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Goffredo Petrassi Prize from the Quirinal Palace in Rome (2016), 1st prize at the IX "Francisco Escudero" International Accordion Composition Competition (2016) in Spain, and 1st prize at the 6th "Dimitris Dragatakis" Composition Competition (2014), organized by the Greek Composers' Union. She participated in numerous composition courses and seminars, with Beat Furrer, Philippe Manoury, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei, Yan Maresz, Jean-Luc Hervé, Franck Bedrossian, Dmitri Kurljandski...
Sofia Avramidou also collaborates with director Evangelia Kranioti, for the film "Obscuro Barroco", which received the Teddy Award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. That same year, she was selected by the Venice Biennale to compose the chamber opera "Rodi rodi, morsicchia! La casina chi rosicchia?" performed at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
She has been commissioned by ensembles and institutions such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris, Ircam, Venice Biennale, Musikfabrik, Ictus, Lemanic Modern Ensemble, 2e2m, Radio-France, Festival Ensemble(s), Festival de Prades, Festival Nouveaux Horizons, Orchestre National de Jazz, ECHO, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon....
Her compositions have been performed at the Philharmonie of Paris, the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Bozar (Brussels), the Barbican (London), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Philharmonie of Cologne, the Venice Biennale, the Auditori (Barcelona), the Festspielhaus (Baden-Baden), the Philharmonie of Luxembourg, the Auditorium of Lyon, the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), the Boston University, the Megaron (Athens)...
Alongside composition, Sofia Avramidou studies Byzantine music, Hymnology, Oud and Ney instrument, as well as traditional Greek singing.
As a singer, she collaborates with various ensembles and orchestras, such as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki Municipal Orchestra, the Raanana Symphony Orchestra (Israel)...

 In 2018, she arranged traditional songs for voice and clarinet and recorded the album "Binôme" in Greece.
Her works are published by Éditions Lacroch' and BabelScores.

METALLAGES (2020)

Sofia Avramidou-composer

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