A walk at dusk, near a water fall that enters the underground.
Raw multitrack recording (binaural and hydrophones), no effects.

Dusk Waters

Alytes Obstetricans, Geres

Agua Espectral, Açores

De Beja ao Guadiana

This soundscape integrated the installation Liminal, during the November Festival, at the Serre of the Verkadefabriek, in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. It enhanced the presence of diverse species that inhabit the Verkadefabriek and its surrounding public spaces, at this time of the year. It created a sonic environment to listen with the other than human, usually unnoticed in the everyday.
This long durational soundscape unfolds a modulation of rhythms, tones, drones and melodies in multiple layers: location recordings of environmental sounds in a park around a lake, underwater, acoustic instrumentss and synthesizers. The soundscape was composed to spatially resonate with the architecture of the installation space, with specific psychoacoustic effects. This immersive environment invited us to slow down and attune into active and extended listening modes. It aimed to expand our human perceptual threshold with the multiple voices of the local ecosystems, towards an acoustic sensibilisation and reconnection with our surroundings.

Liminal

Una experiencia de relación y sintonización con el agua. Una espiral de grabaciones de su ciclo: lluvia, cascata, rio, imersion, infiltration, manantial, fuente, grifo, tubos, túneles, mar, olas, profundezas. Resonemos con su fuerza vital transformadora. Conectemos con su presencia vibratória en nosotrxs y el planeta. Agua-vida, bien común essencial.

Agua Libre

Owls & Dogs, Gerês

Estorninhos, Mil Fontes

Shores, a soundscape installation in a boat, converted into an acoustic shell to transmit a collective sonic memory of fishermen. 
Developed in residency during Invisible Places, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.

Note: as the soundscape experiments operated with resonance frequencies (meaning that sound waves of particular size were in relation to each place’s specific spatial volume, geometry and materials) it is not reproducible through audio documentation because the acoustic effects are gone. These psycho-physical effects could only be heard and felt in each specific space of the installation.

Shores

A soundscape installation in resonance with the acoustic space of a tunnel and an aural architecture based in a zome geometry.

Note: as the soundscape experiments operated with resonance frequencies (meaning that sound waves of particular size were in relation to each place’s specific spatial volume, geometry and materials) it is not reproducible through audio documentation because the acoustic effects are gone. These psycho-physical effects could only be heard and felt in each specific space of the installation.

Passage - Zome

Passage - Tunel

A soundscape representation of the territory of Villeneuve community, Grenoble; it accounts on ambiance variations of the same path in different time lapses.
Developed during CRESSON Masterclasses and Practical Field Works, Grenoble, France. 2019. In collaboration with Andréa Poiret, Maite Echaider, Marine Pesme, Sophie Gleeson.
Field recordings with binaural microphones, DPA 4060 stereo omnidirectional microphones.

Multi-Temporal Soundwalk

In Girum. 2020
Spatial sound installation

Dar a Ouvir, Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal.
July 11 to September 6 2020

The sound installation In Girum evokes the spirit of the place and the cosmovision of the Cloister of São Francisco, with the geometry of its four galleries coordinated with the four cardinal points and with the four primary elements, which unify all aspects of being – the spiritual, the psychic, the corporal and the social.

Through a continuous, cyclical aural path around four interconnected soundscapes, the Cloister space is valued as a catalyst center, which enhances the revolving, meditative and contemplative movement, but also of relationship, communication, reconnection and transformation.

The soundscapes are spatially resonated with a psycho-acoustics specific to the Cloister galleries. Along the sound path, the act of rotating continuously around the center invites the unification of being. This resonant cyclic movement becomes a means of sensory attunement and acoustic sensibilisation towards a deep listening to multiple voices of a primordial memory, the four elements and the local biodiversity.

This track was recorded along the circular path with a binaural technique.

In Girum

Live performance at the event Rural Vivo! Campo do Gerês, Portugal, July 24 2020.

Cláudia Martinho: location recordings at Gerês UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, percussion, found materials, water and effects
Luís Bittencourt: acoustic percussion eco-instruments from found materials, electroacoustic instruments, water and effects

Symbiosis and Geometries is a long term evolutive co-creation that combines sound art, musical and acoustic performance, acoustic ecology and bioacoustics. It experiments with relationships between the environmental sound of specific places in Serra do Gerês and the sound of acoustic instruments. 

This first electroacoustic performance explores approaches to vibratory and musical characteristics based on the sound of places, such as spectra, resonance geometries and timbres, in a symbiotic relationship with the spatialised soundscapes. For this session, while Cláudia made multi-channel recordings with various types of microphones at Mata da Albergaria, and created soundscapes to evoke the spirit of the places and the beings that inhabit them, Luís conceived and built acoustic percussion eco-instruments from found materials, such as water, stones, wood, leaves, among others.

Symbiosis and Geometries, live at Rural Vivo! Campo do Gerês

Researcher, architect and acoustician. She experiments relationships between aural architecture, acoustic ecology, field recording, soundscape composition, performances, design and bio-construction of resonant spaces.

Cláudia Martinho

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