Au premier plan, le régulier Blongios nain, et les grinantes Rousseroles turdoïdes. Au second plan : Loriot d'Europe, Huppe Fasciée, Rossignol Philomène (...?)

Lac du Salagou
Micro AT4041 ORTF et Mixpre-6

Blongios nain et rousseroles turdoïdes dans les roseaux du lac du Salagou

Henrik Meierkord: Cello
Michael Grunditz: Electronics

Shimmering - Henrik Meierkord - Michael Grunditz

A male European nightjar delivers his strange motor like song from one of his favorite song post before moving to the next one, ending his trill by a joyful wing clap.

Lyon countryside, late spring.
2023-06-10, 22h

Lom Usi Pro, Sony PCM M10

Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot & Mélia Roger

Illustration : John Gerrard Keulemans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

European nightjar, Song and wing clap - Mélia Roger & Grégoire Chauvot

Untitled (19/09/23)

Sélection Art sonore

Jeanne Debarsy
Maybe Nothing
14’15, Semi Silent & Babelfish (Roumanie & Belgique)

Que s'est-il passé ? Nul ne le sait exactement. Bien sûr, il y a des ru-meurs, des échos, Mais ce ne sont peut-être que des réminiscences. Le temps et l'espace semblent désaccordés. Les comportements aussi ont changé. Mais malgré tout, le Danube continue de couler.

Ingénieure du son, autrice et réalisatrice radiophonique, Jeanne Debarsy envisage son travail comme un terrain d’exploration sonore où les mondes animaux, végétaux et humains se côtoient joliment.

Jeanne Debarsy_Maybe Nothing

This excellent LP of Bakshy bard music from Turkmenistan, featuring dutar lutes, gidjak fiddles and stunning singing of historic epic dastans, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/12/turkmenistan-turkmenian-folk-songs-and.html

Turkmenian Folk Songs and Melodies – Melodiya 017901-2

Turkmenistan – Bagshy Epic Bards – Melodiya

"white wide eyes" (2014) for 23 musicians (4 ensembles), electronics, projection
- Ensemblekollektiv Berlin (Ensemble Mosaik, Sonar Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Apparat)
- Manuel Nawri (conductor)
premiere January 22nd 2015, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, HAU2

live recording: dradio

"white wide eyes" 2014 - for 23 musicians, electronics, projection

jan-philip schulze, wdr sinfonieorchester köln, peter rundel
(released on mode records)

clouds and sky

Streichquartett No. 3

RIAFC 007 - Shortwave Radio Surfing
A mesmerizing mixtape of lo-fi shortwave radio transmissions arrived in our mailbox today from the Italian tape label Artetetra. And it’s a doozy! Produced exclusively for Radio is a Foreign Country, Italian scavengers of obscure exotica, Luigi Monteanni and Matteo Pennesi, explore the surreal world of shortwave radio.
 
“As a mix of functional signals and sounds, incomprehensible codes and intrusive skits, which rely entirely on the technical efficiency and power of the machine as a catalyst, not to mention the capacity and experience of the listener-user to tune into different frequencies, shortwave radio is a continuous adventure into undisclosed territories of sound that literally becomes, at any given moment, an unrevealed foreign country.

Historically, shortwave radios have been used mostly for communication, commercials, propaganda and illegal broadcasting, which is often related to political needs that require evading the normal laws of censorship and intellectual property. Unable to listen uninterrupted, one must hunt continuously for tunes, acrobatically zapping through jungles of white noise and wastelands of abandoned frequencies. Shortwave radio is therefore a kind of shadow box containing part of our sonorous heritage in the form of haunting and recurring uchronia, where different geographies, eras, and technologies fuse in a polymorphic structure of displaced signals and sounds – for example, Guglielmo Marconi and the Cape Verde islands, jungle from the 90s and Latin radio plays from the 70s. If there is anything that illustrates Artetetra's concept of Quinto Mondo, it is without a doubt shortwave radio.” 

But enough bs! Just dive right into this medianic lo-fi mix, carefully crafted by the Italian scavengers of calembouristic sonic paradises.

Shortwave Radio Surfing (RIAFC 007)

Convex (2019-2020) 
for large ensemble of 13 players

Flute (Alto Flute, Piccolo)
Oboe (Cor Anglais)
Clarinet in Bb (Bass Clarinet)
Alto Saxophone (Baritone Saxophone) 
Horn in F
Harp
Percussion1
Percussion 2
Piano
Violin I 
Viol II 
Viola 
Violoncello

composed for Grossman Ensemble 

Program note:
The uncanny secret about the experience of falling apart is
 that one can—even if only for seconds—capture the image
 of the day just the way light is broken up into a hundred
 shattered shades and bended hues when it passes through
 a prism.

Turkmenistan – Bagshy Epic Bards – Melodiya

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