The Dying Miss Saeki (Den döende fröken Saeki) is the fourth and last movement in From the Bottom of a Well (Från botten av en brunn) based on Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore. The the sounds were designed from, and the music was written from a grounded theory analysis of the book. The piece was performed and recorded on the 16th of December 2021 by Robert Ek, clarinet; Kevin Kirs Verstege, cello; and Rikard Vilhelm Lindell, eurorack at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Photography by Hannes Häfele.

Robert Ek's portfolio: www.remusik.se/
Hannes Häfele's portfolio: luminea.eu/

Video recording from the concert is available here: https://vimeo.com/716690521

Den döende fröken Saeki / The Dying Miss Saeki

hyperreal

What if the secret life of the machines that surround me every day grew suddenly louder, the way a part of the body cries out for attention whenever pain arises? I began to walk through my new and apparently post-pandemic city, where the quiet streets hummed again, and even the air seemed cut with a new intensity and purpose. This track begins with a late night calling, an uneven pulse, that summons a world of ticking gears and levers, underpinned with dark drones and stretched choral verses, as if despair was the necessary beginning of every joy.

Back In The Streets

EDA BROWN_AKI NO TOBIRA ～AUTUMN DOOR～

Original version:
https://soundcloud.com/senmove/puro-fracaso-turbio
Drawing by  
https://soundcloud.com/ivojunyent

SenSen - H3770 JULS

It was a good day to hear a big number of vocal grey seals and lots of big-mouthed terns on the Swedish  island Gotska Sandön in the Baltic Sea.

Grey seals and terns at Gotska Sandön, Sweden.

- Forest1

The weather was beautiful and I wanted to try out my new Aquarian H2d hydrophones. I upgraded from the H2a's in the spring, but haven't had a chance to try out the new ones...
I went to Helsminde Harbor, not far from where I live in Southern Denmark, as I've been lucky catching a lot of cool sounds there in the past. I have found that the most (and best) sounds is right where a body of brackish water connects to the ocean through a small canal. It didn't disappoint this time either ... enjoy

Hydrophone Hejlsminde Harbor August 21st 2023

VOICES FROM BEHIND THE VEIL, 21:23, 2004 (In English and Arabic)

Voices from Behind the Veil, integrates interviews of Egyptian women on the subject of the hijab (the various head and body coverings of Islamic women) into a multilingual sound collage of women's voices. By weaving women's opinions, stories, and discussions about the hijab together, Voices from Behind the Veil reveals the multifaceted opinions and emotions by using a variety of communication styles, some completed statements and other partially revealed dialogues, yielding a richness of diversity in sound and content. The primary impetus of this project is to shift the (western) gaze from stereotypical assumptions easily conjured by visual images of veiled women to an aural encounter where the women (both veiled and not veiled) speak for themselves. 

Material for this project was gathered in the summer or 2003, where I was studying Arabic music with Egypt’s well-known violinist, Alfred Gamil. The interviews are comprised of all Egyptian women who represent varied perspectives on veiling—two women are unveiled, one woman wears a more “Spanish” veil, another with a traditional hijab (headcovering that covers all of the hair), and one with. The participants are also diverse with respect to their age, socio-economic class, and education. Subjects covered in the interviews include personal stories, historical and cultural phenomena, relationship to the body, other women, men, fashion, family, the western world, the workplace, Islam, and societal expectations. Behind the layered interviews is a background of street sounds in Cairo.


Voices from Behind the Veil - Excerpt 2:00

for promotional purposes only:
Liza Lim: Ronda – The Spinning World (2016)
for 9 musicians: horn, tpt, tbn, harp, perc, vln, vla, vc, dbass + Smetak instruments (Ronda, Tres Sois, Piston Cretino)
Premiere: 25 February 2017, Ensemble Modern conduced by Vimbayi Kaziboni, Alte Oper, Frankfurt
Programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2016/12/26/ronda-the-spinning-world-2017/

Liza Lim: Ronda (The Spinning World), 2016

Jojo blue - Prophet (2020)

Thea Farhadian is a performer/composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her projects include solo violin and interactive electronics, acoustic improvisation, solo laptop, radio art, and video. Her solo pieces for violin and electronics combine a classical music background with extended technique and digital processing using the program Max/MSP. Thea divides her time between San Francisco and Berlin. 
www.theafarhadian.com

Voices from Behind the Veil - Excerpt 2:00

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