“João Alegria is an essential figure in the Portuguese underground music scene. With a prolific career spanning over a decade, the guitarist – as he prefers to be called – embodies artistic commitment, resilience, and a deep devotion to crafting dark, experimental soundscapes. The numerous albums the Lisbon-based musician has released testify to a sonic vision akin to its object of study: unhurried and unperturbable, yet continuous and tempestuous."

— João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

“You paint for fame & status, I paint for freedom & awareness”, reads one of the vertical graffiti that Mr.Paradox Paradise painted on some Berlin building. Likewise, there is nothing in João Alegria’s art that is done with the intention of fame or likes. He spent more than a decade editing with recognition limited to the “community” of sound nomads. “I’ve been doing this for some time and I don’t have a very wide audience”, he admits. However, who knows, knows. And who knows, like it. João Alegria’s music is for connoisseurs. Perhaps that will always be the case.
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However, the unique contours of his art, combined with a stubborn aesthetic consistency and prolificacy, are the characteristics that simultaneously nest and vitalize it. The unconditional and obstinate way in which this “guitarist” – as he likes to be called – has created his work is a rare case of perseverance. His motivation? It’s not entirely explicit, but somewhere between the love of music and the physiological need to create lives the truth of João Alegria. If he lives because he breathes, he seems to make music because he has to live. One senses in his speech an inevitability of cathartic genesis that surreptitiously emerges between the lines like a figure wandering through the night.
João Alegria can also move through the shadows, but his music definitely points to the heavens, full of verticality” 

– João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

I am an animal and nature sound, and other sounds recording enthusiast from Baltic States. There is a variety of amazing sounds on the planet. No two sounds are the same, there are only sounds mixed with other sounds. 

-Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you-

Listening in Nature: songs of birds, amphibians, and singing insects (crickets and katydids)

"Kalejdoskop - Pamięć i Muzyka".

Kultura muzyczna Kociewia należy do najsłabiej zbadanych i opisanych w kraju. Materiały archiwalne są bardzo ubogie i jednocześnie skupione na przeszłości- rdzennej kulturze regionu. Po II Wojnie Światowej kultura tego terenu została głęboko „przeorana” w rezultacie przemieszczania się ludności. Obecnie mamy tu do czynienia z prawdziwym kalejdoskopem muzycznych mikroświatów pochodzących z różnych regionów i kompletnie nie powiązanych ze sobą. Projekt nasz stawia sobie za cel pokazanie tej układanki taką jaka jest. Nie chcemy przesiewać muzyki poszukując motywów rdzennie kociewskich. Pragniemy zarejestrować  muzykę nie tyle kociewską, co obecnych mieszkańców Kociewia. Jednocześnie chcemy pokazać to, co łączy wszystkie te (pozornie bardzo odległe) style muzyczne. Tym czymś jest pamięć dawnych zgromadzeń wiejskich. Pamięć czasów, gdy muzyka była towarzyszką człowieka od narodzin aż do śmierci i niezbędnym elementem celebracji najważniejszych momentów życia. 

Projekt powstał dzięki wsparciu finansowemu Urzędu Marszałkowskiego Województwa Pomorskiego i Urzędu Miasta i Gminy Pelplin.

www.trojwiejska.pl
https://www.facebook.com/Trojwiejska/

Tomáš Šenkyřík (CZ) is a musicologist with interest in field recordings. He is interested in acoustic ecology and discovering musical structures in nature. He is a founder of a Moravian soundmap.

Ecoutons la nature pour mieux la préserver.

Small photo: Telinga Modular. Please see: 
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Large photo: SCHOEPS parabolic dish set. Buy from: https://schoeps.de/en/products/special-microphones/parabolic-dish/parabolic-dish-set.html

Irish field recordist, now residing in Sweden. I have a deep interest and background in birding, which is reflected in my sound recordings. Follow my podcast, Wild Bird Acoustics, on all podcast providers!

sound | ecology | ornithology | herpetology 

here, you find a selection of recordings from my archive. if you want to use one of my recordings for your project, please get in touch.

thank you for listening!

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