As this is a binaural recording you will need headphones for the full surround effect. Recorded on Queen Street close to Christmas. I love the juxtaposition of the ska / funk guitar and the street preacher and all the artistic meaning that could be drawn from it. Recorded using a pair of Roland CS-10EM binaural earphones.

The Preacher And The Busker - Cardiff City Centre (Binaural recording please wear headphones)

九時四一分 20/12/2022

My recording of the D12 Redlines action march in Paris. For  info on why were were marching, please see here: http://d12.paris/ 

*For binaural effects wear headphones

COP21 Protest March Paris (Binaural recording)

Boats and trains passing. 
recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-6
microphone: Audio Technica BT4025 xy stereo

Thames In Richmond.WAV

Disquiet Junto Project 0441: Three Stones
The Assignment: Make music that explores territory sonically.

Step 1: Find three stones from one location.

Step 2: Consider how the stones can be thought to connect (physically, historically, culturally, psychologically) with where they originated, with a sense of region, of place, of terroir.

Step 3: Record source audio from the stones identified in Step 1.

Step 4: Compose and record a piece of music with the sounds from Step 3 exploring the ideas from Step 2.

Track notes:

I found three large stones from our backyard, recently excavated from a clean up in the yard to make space for a new veggie patch. Lately I've been drawn to the sound of cascades through riverine and creek tributaries. I especially enjoy the barely-there melodies that one can hear when a creek is flowing very discretely. This year I made several recordings at Carrickalinga Creek during the summer, when the flow of the water is minimal. Whatever water passes around, between and through rocks is amplified and coloured by the resonance of rock formations and their apertures. As opposed to striking or sounding the rocks, I thought it might be interesting to create my own cascade at home with a resonant aperture formed using the three large rocks I found in the backyard.

I positioned them in our bathtub and then placed a microphone inside the aperture. Then, with the plug in place (I didn't want the resonance of the drain to feature) I ran the water gently near the rock formation to capture the discrete resonance of this little space I had made with the rocks. Over the course of the recording I slowly turned the tap off, so the flow of the water is reduced to drips followed by the faint 'ping' of the springs inside the tap itself.

I'm not entirely sure how successful the recording is, but I like the poetic nature of the idea behind it. I think it also reflects aspects of being so home-bound during the pandemic period and somewhat removed from nature and the wider world. In that respect, I guess you could regard the piece as a simulacra of nature, transposed to the confines of domestic space.

[disquiet0441] domestic cascade

Last week I dropped a rig again in the Solkær meadows/wetland near my home. I have a friend who owns a large chunk of land there and he took me on an inspection/expedition of the area. I went back later the same evening and set up next to the little waterhole in the picture. I left the rig there until the next morning... 
This track is excerpts from the evening, night and dawn - it was pretty quiet so I have been fidling a bit with eq, compression and RX7 to enhance the result...(I'll go back this week with my "big" rig to get a better recording hopefully without much work in post)
Right at the beginning you hear a deer? really close to the mics eating, and finally running away, there's swans flying by, heron or cranes vocalizing, frogs blackbirds etc... quite a few planes, and even a helicopter, over the 9 hours of recording - I edited those out
Sony PCM D 100 and LOM Audio Usi's in AB 40

Solkær Meadows June 17th 2020 Overnight

Title: 202006221842 Frogs in a Rice Paddy by a Road
Recordist: Timothy Hall
Date: 202006221842
Recorder: Sound Devices MixPre-6 mk1
Microphone: Davinci Head mk2
Technique: Binaural Stereo
Location: Sakamoto, Shiga, Japan
GPS: 35.075152, 135.871114
Source: https://timothyhall.org
Aporee: https://aporee.org/maps/work/?loc=49880
Content: binaural, head, hrtf, frog, road, wind, rice, field, paddy, japan, old man, children, cars, traffic, ambiance, 2020, summer, sakakmoto, shiga, kansai

Field Recording

202006221842 Frogs In A Rice Paddy By A Road

"Unshaped Unspoken” by Angakkut is an album that was sitting in a drawer for quite some time. After 8 years of growing, we are finally able to present it as our first vinyl record.

Angakkut is a band that has changed quite a lot since it started (and at the moment, it doesn’t even exist). Nevertheless, they recorded some chilling music before they fell apart, with local (Bratislava) stars such as Pjoni or Stroon. They even managed to get it remixed by Andrew Liles (collaborator of Nurse with Wound, Current 93, and many others). They play a strange combination of post-rock, ambient, and folk, quite unique in the eastern European scene. Haunting guitars and vocals, occasionally joined by vibraphone and cello. One of our friends described it as “lullabies for suicidal personalities”, and we believe that is quite accurate. Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we did.

202006221842 Frogs In A Rice Paddy By A Road

TimothyHall.org

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