In a nondescript alleyway in South Dunedin, the Dunedin Gasworks Museum houses some of the world's best-preserved gasworks machinery. During my visit, I explored their machine room, where I found five examples of stationary steam engines. I decided to attach a LOM Geofón to one of these engines to capture the sounds it produced. The rhythmic sound I heard was created by the mechanical lubricators that apply oil to the piston. I recorded the sound using a Zoom F6 and edited it using Apple Logic.

Gasworks Horizontal Pump

Singing Lonely Tube

The old pipe found in the forest that makes a sound. I dont really understand how thats possible, but I suspect the wind was playing a trick on me. Slovakia. Between Hamuliakovo and Samorin.

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LOM Geofon

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Brick Room & Noise Studio 2024

Singing Lonely Tube

Wind In The Open Field.

I was in the mood for a little experimentation. I wondered how different it would be from a normal sound recording. I covered the stereo microphones with two different cloths and put a bag over them. I also recorded sounds at the same time with the stereo microphones using the Geophone. I tried to adjust this to the correct volume. I did not do anything else!

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LOM Basicucho & Geophone

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Wind In The Open Field

In Hollow, Fallen Wood Voices. Like An Amplifier.2.

Inside a hollow tree, broken in two the wind can be heard blowing. Human voices, a fly wandering by, cracks caused by the wind. 

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LOM Basichucho

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In Hollow, Fallen Wood Voices. Like An Amplifier.

Gully - Water

Gullideckel - Wasser 

Stereo Clippys and Geophone Mix
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Gully

The vaunted techno producer discusses the connections between visual art and music, balancing a full-time career as a fine artist and how he creates his signature sound.

There's a connection between visual art and dance music that's seldom explored on our channels. Mike Parker is well known in the underground techno scene for minimal, hypnotic and beautifully executed sound design that sits somewhere at the edges of club music. But he also received his master's degree in fine art and teaches drawing and painting at Daemon University in Buffalo, New York. Fans of Parker will recognise his visual trademark: monochromatic prints that adorn the covers of the records he puts out on his label, Geophone.

In this Exchange, Parker sits down with Chloe Lula to talk about how he balances his art- and music-making practices and how they inform each other. He also opens up about the long process of sticking to his sound and finding an audience rather than catering to the demands and suggestions of labels and distributors. His 2001 breakout album, Dispatches—which he reissued last year—is a meditation on the act of living far away from any listeners or immediate influences, and he discusses the ongoing drawbacks and rewards of balancing the Eurocentric pursuit of DJing with day-to-day work that's so geographically removed. He also opens up about his longtime collaboration with Donato Dozzy, his love of mid-20th-century sci-fi movies and how free-form radio shaped his approach to music and art. Listen to the episode in full.

EX.761 Mike Parker

The vaunted techno producer discusses the connections between visual art and music, balancing a full-time career as a fine artist and how he creates his signature sound.

There's a connection between visual art and dance music that's seldom explored on our channels. Mike Parker is well known in the underground techno scene for minimal, hypnotic and beautifully executed sound design that sits somewhere at the edges of club music. But he also received his master's degree in fine art and teaches drawing and painting at Daemon University in Buffalo, New York. Fans of Parker will recognise his visual trademark: monochromatic prints that adorn the covers of the records he puts out on his label, Geophone.

In this RA Exchange, Parker sits down with Chloe Lula to talk about how he balances his art- and music-making practices and how they inform each other. He also opens up about the long process of sticking to his sound and finding an audience rather than catering to the demands and suggestions of labels and distributors. His 2001 breakout album, Dispatches—which he reissued last year—is a meditation on the act of living far away from any listeners or immediate influences, and he discusses the ongoing drawbacks and rewards of balancing the Eurocentric pursuit of DJing with day-to-day work that's so geographically removed. He also opens up about his longtime collaboration with Donato Dozzy, his love of mid-20th-century sci-fi movies and how free-form radio shaped his approach to music and art. Listen to the episode in full.

Field recording with a LOM Geophone, attached to w wire fence, which was vibrating, due to  a fresh wind.

LOM Geophone on Wire Fence; Landsort, Sweden.

Recording made with LOM Geophone of a creaking tree at Sandemar Reserve in Sweden. 

Geophone recording of Creaking Tree at Sandemar Reserve, Sweden.

MASSIVE GEOPHONE - 197 files of geophonic sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From hard surface vibrations to subtle ground movements and flowing energy to echoing bass. Massive Geophone comes in at over 5 hours and 4 minutes, of odd and familiar noises through a geophonic filter. Bring the esoteric world of high fidelity sub-focused frequencies to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using an omni-directional geophone microphone capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Massive Geophone filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

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Irish field recordist, now residing in Sweden. I have a deep interest and background in birding, which is reflected in my sound recordings. Follow my podcast, Wild Bird Acoustics, on all podcast providers!

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