This is a second recording made in 2020 of the fallow deer 'lek'. This happens around in the second half of October in the UK. The males tend to congregate in in small groups or mating territories where they exhibit lekking behaviours such as sticking to particular 'stands' where they will repeating grunt and bellow.

This recording was made with a Sony M10 and a spaced pair of clippy EM172s. The mics were placed where I had observed a large group of rutting males the night before.

PS DEER MALEGRUNTS MULTIPLE VERYCLOSE MOVEMENTACROSSSTEREOFIELD M10

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མཁས་པ་གཞན། ༼གཞུང་ཆེན།༽ སྤྱིའི་ཨང་། ༤༠༢
འཁྲིད་མཁན། སེར་བྱེས་དགེ་བཤེས་འཇམ་དཔལ་བློ་ཤེས། 
ཁྲིད་གཞུང་གི་མཚན་ཆ་ཚང་། དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། 
ཁྲིད་མཚམས། སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དང་པོ་ནས་བདག་འགོག་གི་བར། 
མཛད་པ་པོ། རྗེ་བློ་བཟང་གྲགས་པ། ༼ ༡༣༥༧ -  ༡༤༡༩ ༽  མཛད་ཆེན་བཞི་དང་བསྟན་འགྲོར་སྨན་པའི་མཛད་པ་རྒྱ་ཆེར་གནང་། དགེ་ལྡན་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་པོ། 
སྒྲིག་དུས། ༢༠༡༧ ལོའི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 

དཀར་ཆག། 
༡༽ འཇུག་པའི་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དང་པོ། ->Track 1-20
༢༽ འཇུག་པའི་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་གཉིས་པ་ནས་ལྔ་པའི་བར། ->Track 21-26
༣༽ འཇུག་པའི་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དྲུག་པ་དགག་བྱ་ནས་བདག་འགོག་བར། ->Track 27-38
༤༽ འཇུག་པའི་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དྲུག་པ་གཞན་སྐྱེ་དགག་པ། ->Track 39-70
༥༽ འཇུག་པའི་ཊཱིཀ་ཆེན་གང་ཟག་གི་བདག་འགོག་པའི་སྐབས། ->Track 71-86

Uma Gongpa Rabsel

དབུ་མ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ། ཅ། དང་པོ། ༼༡༢༽

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain
Conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live on June 14th 2019 at Cité de la Musique, Paris

Le lieu et la formule (2019) for large ensemble

This is my response to the second assignment for Tidal Club. The assignment essentially asks us to look for samples of speech and slice/cut them up in a way that makes it all interesting. In this attempt, I ended up trying out a non-rhythmic approach, trying to use the prepared samples as spliced tape. While doing this, I realized that by layering different samples at different speeds (at different volumes), that clear "sample cut" feeling is blurred out, making it seem like I am avoiding the assignment altogether.  




The assignment is as follows:

Once you have your sound source, you'll need to edit it into a coherent loop. You need to somehow edit it so that it starts on a 'down beat' and lasts a certain number of beats (usually a power of 2, e.g. 4, 8, or 16 beats). In audacity you can hold down shift and press space to play a selection on loop, which is a good way of testing if something is looping properly by ear.. I'll do a live stream soon to demonstrate this process.

Alternatively you could manually cut the sounds into short percussive parts for arranging with the n patterns and mininotation, if you prefer - that might be more work.

Then start slicing, splicing, chopping and striating until you come up with something weird/interesting. Try juxtaposing / mixing that with a less messed-up version. You could then either record a few repetitions of a single pattern, or if you fancy it and have some time, try to flesh it out into a whole track. Have fun with it!

Things to think about

How speech changes when you start treating it as sound
The relationship between speech perception and movement (check out the McGurk effect 5)
How does slicing longer sounds feel compared to sequencing individual sounds?

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