When you listen to birds, they usually talk about food, sex/family, or anxiety. If they knew about the true nature of humanity's cruel and exploitative relationship with birds, they would be discussing rebellion. Humanity's current trajectory about birds is to cause the extinction of one-third of all bird species by the end of this century.

This record crystallises the borders between memory, beauty, and anxiety. At the core is an amalgam of all the birds we have met and heard, their sounds synthesised from a blend of memories. Esthetically it simulates the qualities of bird sounds, hitting similar frequential sweet spots. There is a great variety of birds captured here, from high to low frequencies, from solo voices to groups, from birds standing on their own to complex world-building, where the bird voices are part of an ecosystem, becoming one of the instruments.

You could stop there, enjoying this record on a musical level, but it invites us to do one step further, to consider reconfiguring our relationship with the Earth and its inhabitants. To question our impact, and to ask why we need synthetic bird music. Is it just a visionary endeavour or is it because we are failing at fostering a world in which organic birds and other creatures can thrive?

32 artists from the whole world, including our favourite artists from Eastern Europe, have contributed to this compilation both with new and previously released music. Their music is ordered from dawn to dusk and into the night. For many of the artists it's their first time on mappa, but some have previously released an album with us.

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Profits from the record will be donated to the SOS/BirdLife Slovakia, organisation protecting the bird biotops by river Ipeľ, in south of Slovakia, where mappa has been formed.
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released November 7, 2023

Thank you to Jonáš Gruska, Dialect, Makakinho do Amor, Baldruin, Olli Aarni, Øyvind Torvund, Vic Bang, Grykë Pyje, Tomutonttu, Native Instrument, HMOT, Artificial Memory Trace, Floris Vanhoof, JAB, Cheryl E. Leonard, Mike Cooper, Matthias Puech, Enchanted Lands, Ursula Sereghy, Ecka Mordecai & Malvern Brume, Banana (Alexandra Spence & MP Hopkins), Rie Nakajima, Martina Lussi, James Rushford, Maria Komarova, Misha Kurilov, Kate Carr, Infant, Andrew Pekler, Atte Elias Kantonen, Kensho Nakamura, Felicity Mangan.

Also to labels: LOM, RVNG Intl., Servinakuy, Hubro, Kit Records, Alter, Shelter Press, In Context Music, tsss tapes

Compiled by Jakub Juhás (mappa)

Artwork by Roberta Di Paolo
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Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
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Liner notes by Andrej Chudý
Photography by Zoltán Czakó

Many thanks to Michaela Cagáňová and Luděk Čertík for careful listening, notes, and help with compiling the tracklist.

Released by mappa as MAP045 in 2023

Kensho Nakamura - dive woodz

Maria Komarova - While they gathered my ears grew

Atte Elias Kantonen - 030652_0125ꜱ12.ᴡᴀᴠ

Enchanted Lands - barrockstadt feathered symphony

Felicity Mangan - Time Flys

Grykë Pyje - A Glitch In The Jungle

Singapore, Day 6. Fatin was recommended by Bishal and since my schedule has been pretty full, the only time was the morning on the day of my flight back to Hong Kong. She was keen on playing outdoor and I thought recording another morning chorus track, this time in Singapore, would be perfect. We met at 4:30 at Fort Canning Park and found a spot at the top of the park in a flat area with tall trees.

Fatin plays metal bowls she bought from Bishal and her style is slow and highly improvised. She has an interior design background so I felt that she would be up for experimentation to try some ideas and concepts during the recordings.

Depth: Our first recording was made in a traditional fashion so I could hear her style. Fatin played the bowls in a stationary position in front of the microphone. She had many bowls laid out and a sense of depth could be heard depending on their distance from the microphone. Some quiet, some loud in a sort of 2D image.

https://insig.ht/u5EYq7cdNSb


SBS on IT

Sound Bath Sessions 112: Fatin Zulkefly

Fatin plays metal bowls she bought from Bishal and her style is slow and highly improvised. She has an interior design background so I felt that she would be up for experimentation to try some ideas and concepts during the recordings. We would discuss some ideas before each recording, and she would execute them improvising with the bowls. I thought it resulted in a pretty cool three-part composition.

In our last recording, we decided to add a final element to our previous concepts, time. We placed some stationary bowls around the space and Fatin would have to walk to some bowls to play them, the length of each note being the amount of time it took to walk there. Sometimes she would carry a bowl and play it. Then it finally happened, a slow wave of insect sounds started to emanate from the city below. It would soon surround us with its almost deafening roar. It was a beautiful moment and a perfect ending to my time in Singapore.

https://insig.ht/DmxXsLzdNSb


Insight Timer

Sound Bath Sessions 136: Fatin Zulkefly

Morning View

Dawn in bushland near the inland edge of the Kurangk/Coorong lagoon. On the far side of the lagoon, towering dunes half-draped with tough green bushes seclude and protect the lagoon from the ever-audible roaring ocean. Skimming above the ocean, a storm intermittently spears the waves with lightning, and rolls its thunder inland, towards the dawning bushland.

2025.12.06 Dawn Chorus with Thunder. Kurangk/Coorong. Early Summer.

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MAP059 Lénok - Langue of Tongue
MAP062 Kult Masek & Petr Vrba - Fumarola
MAP060 Yoichi Kamimura & Olli Aarni - Kōri no ryokō / Jäämatkailu
MAP061 Richard Hronský - Pohreb
MAP064 Areliz Ramos - B side
MAP063 Plume Gril - Unnameable Glory
MAP057 claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - quilted lament
MAP058 Adam Badí Donoval - a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided
MAP056 fraufraulein - greater honeyguide
MAP055 - Julek ploski - Give Up Channel

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MAP053 Michaela Antalová & Adrian Myhr - Sing Nightingale
MAP051 michaela turcerová - alene et
MAP052 E/I - explicit isolation
MAP054 Lamina - Sueños acuáticos
MAP049 - Päfgens - Aspect of What
MAP050 - Henrique Vaz - De Silenti Natura
MAP048 Alley Catss - m Helux
MAP047 adaa - …img…
MAP041 Pentu - And I Saw My Devil And I Saw My Deep Blue Sea

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MAP041 Slowfoam - Worlding With Earth
MAP045 VA - Synthetic Bird Music
MAP044 Line Gate - Trap
SKUMAP002 Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
046 Adela Mede - Ne L​é​pj a Vir​á​gra
043 Plume Girl - In the End We Begin
039 Forces - Chim​æ​ras
040 Rob Winstone - sifting through heaven
SKUMAP001 Lucie Vítková - Cave Acoustics
030 Symposium Musicum - Symposium Musicum

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038 Nighte - Pin down the dust
036 Kensho Nakamura - Electric Rust
037 Andrew Oda - Back To The Body
031 Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
035 CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
034 Alexandra Spence - a veil, the sea
033 Manja Ristić - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self​-​rolled
Grykë Pyje - The Fantastic World of Grykë Pyje
032 Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS

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029 Grykë Pyje - Squirlich Stroll
028 Cucina Povera - Dalmarnock tapes
027 Nick Storring - Newfoundout
025 Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO
026 Cheryl E. Leonard - Schism
024 Tastin Menu - Stand closer when you have something to say
023 Infant - face first in the entangled

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022 Line Gate - Apex
021 Andrew Oda - SOTTO
020 Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Bow down thine ear, I bring you glad tidings
019 Vlad Dobrovolski - Natursymphony No​.​1 — Spring Music
018 Felicity Mangan - Creepy Crawly
017 Roman Radkovič Collective - Televize
016 Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
015 Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
014 Sébastien Branche - Lignes de Fuite

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013 Grykë Pyje - Collision And Coalescence
VA: UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp - Gemer Gothic Route
012 IQ+1 - Conversaphone Plus

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011 Sarah Hennies - Sisters by Lenka Novosedlíková
010 Simon Whetham - Open and Closed Circles
009 MP Hopkins - Aeroplanes & Puddles

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008 Bruno Duplant, Pedro Chambel - Autofictions
007 Catriel Nievas, Sergio Merce - Pampa
006 Diatribes - Sistere
005 Line Gate - Den

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004 Sarah Hennies: Orienting Response by Cristián Alvear
003 Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab - Decrecimiento Exponencial
002 Adam Asnan - Carriers, PA
001 Jeph Jerman - 34​°​111'3"N 111​°​95'4"W

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New tracks tagged #DAWN CHORUS