Field Recording of Local Woodland

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Recorded with stereo pair of Clippy EM272

Local Woodland - March 2021

To properly experience the recording headphones are required.

Contact microphones create a unique space to listen to environments via objects within the environment itself. Fences are one of the best objects for this exploration. Not only are fences often made of materials that carry vibrations easily over long distances, but they also mark the boundaries and limits of your chosen environment. Listening to these boundaries can give unique perspective of a place, as they pick up, merge and distort sounds from both sides of dividing line.

In this recording of A Fence In a Local Park, snippets of conversation and the sounds of children playing mix with the resonating tones of metallic fence.

This recording was inspired by the work of @JezRileyFrench and recorded using a pair of his contact microphones.

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A Fence In A Public Park

ON AIR FEST OFFICIAL SELECT 2022 https://vimeo.com/showcase/9319317

When I think about the dark, I think about a game that I used to play as a kid. I am here, in a house that is not mine. I’m here with my friend, I’ll call him Mario (I’ll tell you later why). I’m 11, he is one year younger than me.

[See also Exploration #2 https://soundcloud.com/kommunic8/explorations-on-darkness-2-why-is-dark-ness]

Text, Voice and Production by M. Cristina Marras
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Exploration on darkness #1 (games we play in the dark)

"Some things can be too loud" or "Eulogy for the volume buttons that fell off my phone and went missing"

Headphones needed 🎧

Created as a response to a prompt from audioplayground.xyz "Eulogize an object you have lost"

I tried to play with volume in this. The mix of loud and quiet parts was an attempt to get people to reach for their own volume buttons as a way of remembering mine. The loud parts are peaked recordings of quiet things; a pin dropping, a contact mic recording of my throat as I talk, and the background hum in a field recording of a woodland!

I had fun making this. Hope you enjoy!

Listen to others responses to the prompt on www.audioplayground.xyz

Eulogy for missing volume buttons

"The Everyday weaves its way among these vast and frightening events. But I do think that much of life is like that: a person having a normal day bumps into someone who is having the worst day of their life; someone singing a beautiful elegiac folksong is in the same tunnel as somebody who is on their mobile phone. And for me, the way to keep going, and even to try and be useful, is to manage and focus on The Everyday enough so that you don't get so overwhelmed that it stops you altogether: staying present in the place that we are, nurturing the world around you, and seeing what you can make grow." ~ Josie Long

Made for "Short Cuts - Memento Mori"
Thank you to @fallingtreeproductions

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