Name: Improvised Duo for Violin and Contrabass Recorder (Thea Farhadian, vln; Tom Bickley, cbass rec) by Tom Bickley
Duration: 10 min 14 s
Description: Thea Farhadian, violin; Tom Bickley, amplified Paetzold Contrabass Recorder. Recorded live at the Center for New Music, San Francisco, on Wed. 16 Aug 2017.

Field recording made for "Palimpsest" during a residency with Spencer Agoston at HiSAM (Hawaii State Art Museum). 

Noticing a pronounced 60Hz hum emanating from several of the pieces in the HiSAM sculpture garden, I touched a contact microphone to the support pillars of Carol Bennett's "Trigger Picasso Energy" (2011). Not only does the work resonate richly from the facility's nearby HVAC, it also appears to pick up radio transmissions (perhaps due to the photovoltaic cells embedded in the work)!

I really don't have a clear answer, but the sound is magical, ghostly and mysterious.

Accidental Radio Sculpture

Baikal

The crunchy sounds of an Orkney otter munching a fish by Harray Loch, July 2022

Otter Eating A Fish

NOSTALGIA FOR THE HERE AND NOW by VIV CORRINGHAM
A 3D sound environment in binaural format: 
please use headphones/earbuds!

at Harvestworks Fluid art and tech exhibition, 10a Nolan Park, Governors Island, NY. August 27 - October 30 2022.
Installation combines field recordings, objects found in the streets, my own singing and people's responses to the questions "What sound would you most miss if it disappeared tomorrow?" and "What object do you most value?" As if someone from the future gathered together memories of our soundscape, along with our quotidian objects as a record of how we lived and what we cared about here and now. 3D sound environment created by Paul Geluso.

Nostalgia for the Here and Now (binaural version)

Sound installation component of "RAW MATERIAL Re-Wilding The Body" multi-media performance installation.
Composition by CillaVee using field recordings by:
Elisa Faires, Liz Lang, Scott Gornick, Tom Bickley

RAW MATERIAL Re-Wilding The Body - installation nature sounds

Thea Farhadian, violin; Tom Bickley, amplified Paetzold Contrabass Recorder. Recorded live at the Center for New Music, San Francisco, on Wed. 16 Aug 2017.

Improvised Duo for Violin and Contrabass Recorder (Thea Farhadian, vln; Tom Bickley, cbass rec)

Live recording of the U.S. Premiere of Accvire, a composition by Sunlief Rasmussen. Recorded Thursday, February 28, 2013, during Other Minds Festival 18, at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Sunleif Rasmussen-Accvire

The Bay - Samuel Sim (Feat. STORME)

Trapped In 4ths

Mooge

Diane Roblin on grand piano and Yamaha ReFace got together with Tom Bickley, on  Akai EWI 4000S   ....free improvisation via JackTrip audio.  2nd set

Tom Bickley and Diane Roblin March 3rd 2021 (set one)

recorder/electronics/voice Max/MSP Three Trapped Tigers recorder duo

Improvised Duo for Violin and Contrabass Recorder (Thea Farhadian, vln; Tom Bickley, cbass rec)

Tom Bickley

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