Name: Obalni Travnik / Coastal meadow by Tremoneta
Duration: 3 min 26 s
Description: 14/06/2023 Recorded in Primorska, Slovenia. Substrate-borne vibrations in a hay-meadow habitat. Different signals of the vibrational community in the area.

Cor Ardens 06 "Der Schimmel" Kostas Kefalianos released April 2021

“Der Schimmel” lays out a hermetic and gem-like study in voice, tape and electronics across two side long compositions. Poem-fragments mold and gather into a sonorous mesh. The compositions echo in organic repetition while some integral part of its inferred world refrains from emerging in full. Recorded as the artist was adjusting to a recent move to a new country, and learning a new language. Der Schimmel, exhibits the amplifying fruits of immersion; a stage precariously revealed in it's pull between the familiarity of home and the grafting of new roots.

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Kostas Kefalianos "Zuhause ist wo sie schläft während des Blumentodes"

Dobra voda is a small bay on the island of Silba. A remote beach is situated an hours walking distance from the only village on the island.

This mystical and completely secluded place was once a summer commune, gathering creative minds from Yugoslavia but also from all over Europe. A versatile art scene emerged, the one that preceded Ljubljana's alternative theatre scene, Rijeka's new wave and some of the most influential ex-Yu alternative bands; "[...] The music was coming from every single bush: violins, cellos, saxophones, trumpets, and, of course, mostly guitars [...]."

One of my dearest friends, Natasha Kadin, curator and cultural manager of SEA Silba Environment Art organised a wonderful exhibition in 2018 with found archive photos made by Marijan Blažina, one of the artists from the commune. Croatian multi-disciplinary artist and author Boris Greiner wrote more about this exhibition: www.silba-environment-art.hr/en/blog/boris-greiner-slikovne-poruke-s-dobre-vode/

I visited Dobre vode on a few occasions, but this particular time I wanted to record a sonic palimpsest, built from water memories and other environmental simulacra of this magical little bay. I recorded with hydrophones from various angles, listened to the interplay between water and salt and different geological formations. The movement of the pebbles from the sea bed, water sliding down the rocks and crevices, burying my "ears" under the sea bed but also inside the enormous piles of dry Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The Posidonia has a very high carbon absorption capacity, being able to soak up 15 times more carbon dioxide every year than a similar-sized piece of the Amazon rainforest.

Dobra voda bay is positioned to accumulate dry Posidonia once it is washed ashore. It is absolutely impossible to be still in those clouds of dry seaweed and be completely silent. Even so, I tried.

The sound piece is a mix of 16 chosen recordings placed in a dronesque metaphor of passing time. 

released August 25, 2022

All sounds recorded, edited and composed by Manja Ristić
Recorded during SEA Silba Environment Art Residence 2021
www.silba-environment-art.hr
Hydrophone built by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk
Mastering La Plant Studio Belgrade
laplantstudio.com

Dobra voda

August 25th, 2022

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Mads Emil Nielsen: Black Box 3
December 2022
https://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-3
https://madsemilnielsen.bandcamp.com/album/black-box-3

LP / CD + DL | @madsemilnielsen

LP / CD

Mads Emil Nielsen: Untitled (Wind)

from the "Rules & Chance Vol. 3" CS (NNF399)
Not Not Fun / 2023

GO GOLD:
https://goldenhallwaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/rules-chance-vol-3
https://midheaven.com/item/golden-hallway-music/rules-chance-vol-3

Golden Hallway Music "Hallway River"

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-217-adam-bohman-feature/

**This episode includes an interview with Adam Bohman**

FFFoxy Podcast #217: Adam Bohman feature

From the album Heave To on Sedimental records, released in 2006

Make The Land (Sedimental) Excerpt

14/06/2023 Recorded in Primorska, Slovenia. Substrate-borne vibrations in a hay-meadow habitat. Different signals of the vibrational community in the area.

Obalni Travnik / Coastal meadow

Eventless Plot, Schemata

Track selection from the forthcoming N/A release by Robert Eggplant, "Empty Campground."

Empty Campground

Robert Eggplant - No Moon, No Wave

Terrace dweller

Melting ice recorded with stereo pair home made hydrophones, January 2021, with Grégoire Chauvot. 

The sounds you hear are the ice breaking and transforming under the temperature difference. 

Experiment about heat in process...

Melting ice - recorded with home made hydrophones

Recording vibroscapes in Slovenia’s meadows and around
Most of what you can hear here are substrate-borne vibrations travelling through plants. Every different sound is a unique insect species communicating this way. Vibrations recorded with laser doppler vibrometers.
Biotremologist, National Institute of Biology (Slovenia)

Obalni Travnik / Coastal meadow

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