Tornado thinking.

Me and my tornado,
we wait. 
We think.
We wait for each other. 
before we appear.
and say Welcome to all that we will carry. 

We are contractions and currents:
mixture of icy humidity
and bitter sweet heat.  
It starts with a rustle
and progresses through the land. 
Like an army of drums in slow motion. 
It is a heavy sand that moves, dances and sings.
Running through the fields. 
Isolated in a time, graduated in celsius.  
It is a duration invented in the shape of a column which is undone.
it, imposes itself. 
Founded by itself in its time and its space. 
A residual cylinder led by winds. 

The tornado.
"I" discipline myself.  
I master this chaos because I provoke it.
It regulates and orders itself in different ways. 
I am a power 
divided and multiplied by temperature. I walk a path. 
I make a path.  
 
I am born in a material complex. 
I am a work of nature. 
I am a force without will. 
With no goal but to be here. 


To take part in the tornado.
To be carried away,
in a hot current.
Frozen in a great movement.

A particulate magnetic vortex
to make destroyed places
dusty and fragile.

Tornado Think

A bonus track from the planned Microgravity reissue.

Biosphere: Clovis

Chris Watson Invertebrate Harmonics

Giacinto Scelsi Duo For Violin And Cello Part II (performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Lucy Railton)

Giacinto Scelsi Duo For Violin And Cello  Part I (performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Lucy Railton)

Cho Oyu 8201m (Field Recordings from Tibet)

Camp 1: Himalayan Nightflight

Jobo Rabzang

Two4 by John Cage performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Naomi Sato
Recorded and Mixed by Peiman Khosravi
2nd Edition of 40 CDs with Individual calligraphy by Chris Bigg here
http://www.snvariations.com/store/two4-final-2nd-edition-cd/
hi res 96 khz/24 bit file available here www.snvariations.com/store/two4-pre-order/
snvariations.bandcamp.com/album/two4

John Cage Two4(performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Naomi Sato) - 96khz full

Aphex Twin track called "Reunion" from the Analord EPs

AFX Analord (Aphex Twin) - reunion

Our last episode of 2020 welcomes one of the foremost sound recordists in the world, the great @ChrisWatsonOfficial.

Chris has been obsessed with field recording since he was young, but his career began in the 80s when he started working for television. Since then, his work has taken him around the world, recording the sounds of animals and nature for documentaries like Frozen Planet and The Life of Birds, alongside Sir David Attenborough. His solo career is a vast archive of sounds and textures recorded for the BBC, as well as his own original music. In this conversation, we discuss field recording, the strange sounds of nature, and his unique process of capturing the world around him.

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Intro and outro music: "El Divisadero" - Chris Watson (2011) 

Sounds:
"The Dawn Chorus" - Chris Watson (2014)
"Vatnajökull" - Chris Watson (2003)
"Glastonbury Ocean Soundscape" - Chris Watson (2019)
"The Wire" - Chris Watson (2016)
"Haefest" - Chris Watson (2013)
"Aguane" - Chris Watson (2008)

Photo by Gavin Thurston

AIR 029 / Chris Watson

"It´s impossible. I counted them, so I left... it´s impossible... I left exactly 3000."

Tornado Think

PLIII

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