For some reason my shortcut through the woods was flooded. Every year the water level in this area was rising until the location became permanently waterlogged. Trees fell and the former forest became silent and inaccessible. This summer the area was drained, and it is now no longer a swamp or a forest. In the evaporating puddles the last of the remaining water creatures can be heard crunching.
Peter Olsén, Järna, Sweden.

eat the world of yesterday to make room for today - Peter  Olsén - Tiny Portraits

A Flaming Pines project:

Tiny Portraits: 

Small renderings of place in memory and sound. 

Sound and place are two terms often thrown together, but what actually connects the two? Sure places sound differently, or may shape the sounds that enter them in particular ways but in what ways is sound actually able to capture and convey place? Is place something to be captured at all? 

In Listening to Noise and Silence, Salomé Voegelin talks of soundscape compositions occupying a site 'between preservation and invention' – an attempt by the composer or field recordist to retain the essence of a site inevitability results via the processes of recording, composition and listening in the creation of somewhere new. 

Tiny Portraits asks each participant to dwell on these connections and disconnections between sound and place, representation and invention by starting somewhere small, somewhere overlooked or obscure, and to interrogate this site using sound. 

In listening to these pieces we ask you to bring only some stillness and imagination, as together we create new places, connections and silences out of these traces of forgotten and hidden sites. 

To visit the Tiny Portraits map by Arash Akbari visit: 
http://www.flamingpines.com/tiny-portraits/

Credits: 
Tiny Portraits is conceived and curated by Kate Carr and is distributed via the record label Flaming Pines. 
Website design and programming by Arash Akbari 
All pieces by listed artists. 
All artwork by Kate Carr 
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering. 

If you would like to pitch a portrait for this project contact: flaming.pines@gmail.com

“ Where words leave off, music begins.”