Performance Live@ Fried Sunday Service 3 [25-07-2021]

The chamber ensemble Sinfonietta VivazzA is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Dutch-Peruvian composer Maria Alejandra Castro Espejo on a comission that celebrates the life of the Afro-Peruvian activist, feminist and community leader María Elena Moyano (1958-1992). This project will feature Sinfonietta VivazzA with a soprano soloist (who will embody the character of Moyano) and will be premiered in 2022. ¡Viva la Vida! will explore the tragedy of Moyano’s assassination and pay tribute to her fight for equality and women’s empowerment. In 1998, a movie was released based on her life; however, this new, 45-minute dramatic song cycle will be the first musical composition written about Moyano (2022 marking 30 years since Moyano’s death). This project is funded, in part, by Fonds Podium Kunsten/Performing Arts Fund of the Netherlands, the Artist Stipend from the NRW- Corona-Hilfen Fund, the Initiative Freie Musik e.V and Cultural Office of Cologne, as well as an Ensemble Stipend  from the Federal Council of the Arts as part of their "NeuStart" Funding

Furia from the Songcycle "Viva la Vida"

“Upopo Sanke“ means “Let's sing a song" in the Ainu language. Umeko Ando (1932-2004) was one of the best-known artists of the Ainu, an indigenous, long-suppressed community in northern Japan. She sings their traditional songs together with Oki Kano on the Tonkori harp, who also recorded the album. The two are supported by members of the female vocal group Marewrew as well as Ainu percussionists, a string player and a male singer who provides rhythmic shouts and also throat singing. The call-and-response structure of many of the songs is performed with a mantric, hypnotic quality in a vocal style that is perhaps best described as elastic, relaxed and breathing. The lyrics praise the lush nature of the islands. They mention the deity Kamuy, who can appear in the form of animals such as bears or swordfish, and the singers repeatedly ask the audience to dance. Listening to this music can be a meditative experience. There seems to be a gentle smile in every note and syllable. This music softly hits the heart. 
“Upopo Sanke“ was recorded on a farm in Tokachi in the summer of 2003. We hear dogs barking, a distant thunderstorm and voices imitating animals. The liner notes that accompany the 2LP release gather the anecdotal memories of Umeko Ando and Oki Kano about the stories of the 14 songs.
 
Oki Kano is a musical ambassador of the Ainu culture who tours worldwide with his Oki Dub Ainu Band and also gives solo concerts, always playing the Tonkori, the five-stringed Ainu harp. 
The Ainu have suffered from the oppression of their culture and language by Japan, especially since the 18th and 19th centuries. Only recently, in 2008, were the Ainu officially recognized again as an indigenous people culturally independent of Japan. As a result of the marginalization, there are now only a few hundred native speakers of the Ainu language left, making it a particularly worthy object of preservation. This music would not exist if the Ainu had not maintained their culture in remote and secret communities against Japanese hegemony. Thanks to Oki Kano, Umeko Ando's interpretation of Ainu music has been recorded in great detail from within the community. "Upopo Sanke" is a treasure of the Ainu heritage. 

"Upopo Sanke" was mixed again in part by Oki Kano before being mastered and cut to vinyl by Kassian Troyer. The 2LP plays on 45rpm and it sounds fantastic. 

This album was the second album by Umeko Ando, the follow-up to "Ihunke", originally recorded in 2000 and also re-released in 2018 by Pingipung together with Oki Kano. The vinyl editions of "Ihunke" and also the 7’' single "Iuta Upopo" including an M.RUX remix have long been sold out. They will be made available again in the course of the release of "Upopo Sanke".

Upopo Sanke

Eri Rimse

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Umeko Ando - Eri Rimse (Pingipung 081 / 2LP, digital)

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Recordings of frogs in a pond in the Drielsche Zeeg.

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Frogs in a pond (Drielsche Zeeg)

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Frogs in a pond (Drielsche Zeeg, May 17th 2024)

WAV52 | 41 | Weekly Audio Ventures

This week I’ve been exploring Ableton Live 12’s Corpus audio effect. Since this effect is particularly responsive to percussion, I worked exclusively with drums—though that’s by no means a requirement. What I found interesting is that you can actually shape a kind of melodic structure using nothing but percussion. This is probably because Corpus allows you to heavily transform the sound. It emulates different resonant materials to generate exotic, otherworldly tones.

For this week’s experiment, I used the C Dorian #4 scale.

WAV52 | 41

Cathedral Ranges

This is the music which belongs to the Endtitles of the Kamer 306 DVD. All samples used are copies of the samples which were on the Popular Electronics CD4. These are the tracknumbers used: 7, 29, 34, 36, 41, 47, 48, 57, 66, 77, 78, 81, 87, 91 and 92. Everything resampled using Ableton’s Live and Apple Logic.

Kamer306 Room306 Endtrack

Opgenomen vanuit mijn huiskamer in het centrum van Den Haag. Er zit daar al zeker 10 jaar een koppel Bosuilen elke voorjaar te broeden. Dit is het geluid van een mannetje.

Recorded from my living room in the center of The Hague. There's a couple of Tawny owl breeding here for over 10 years now. This is the sound of male.

Bosuil/Tawny owl (Den Haag, April 8th 2013)

From Volume & Void. Released on Superpang,  September 18, 2020
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/volume-void

Composed through experimental scheduling algorithms that explore the duality of immediate, direct events with gradual and evolving processes.

System and sounds created during the summer of 2020 in Scheveningen, The Hague.

Design: Joe Gilmore

Volume & Void

Ierapetra Harbor - Past Midnight

ABOUT ME
I am a Dutch illustrator and animator. I always strive for a simple image, with a clear message, without noise. I'm also an avid field recordist.

ABOUT THIS PAGE
This SoundCloud page contains my field recordings. An old hobby that grew big over the last years and gives me great pleasure. A lot of these recordings end up being used in my music and live performances one way or another. Follow the Einzelganger-link below to go to my musical project.

BINAURAL
Some of the recordings are 'binaural', meaning that the method of capture recreates an accurate stereo image of the environment when listened to using headphones. To enjoy this effect, listen to those marked 'Binaural fieldrecording' using headphones!

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording">Here's more on binaural recording</a>.

<b>GEAR</b>
I use a Zoom H2, Zoom H2n and Zoom 4Hn recorder. Sometimes with additional Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 binaural microphones.

<b>MUSIC</b>
Some recordings end up being used in my music. You can hear examples of that on the pages of http://soundcloud.com/einzelganger and http://soundcloud.com/mouchesvolantes

Frogs in a pond (Drielsche Zeeg, May 17th 2024)

Thijs Geritz

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