From nearby shore by midnight just  a few days after ices gone with mostly Greylag Goose and Whooper Swan.


(MKH8020 ab80cm, Mixpre3 32>24, no processing, Flac)

Geese Night - 8/4/2021 - Makholma Shore

"An echo is something that comes back to you, a reverb is something that leaves you."

produced for the 6th episode of the podcast series Periscope by Serralves Performing Arts Department, Porto.

https://www.serralves.pt/en/institucional-serralves/periscope/

I contributed this piece "Echo-Ovations (some spaced out thoughts and memories about acoustic impressions)" about my personal history with sounds in large spaces, including bits and cuts of some old cassettes with recordings of my dad.

Other contributors to the series are Gustavo Ciríaco, Osso Exótico, Sara Manente, Christina Kubisch, David Toop and others.

 Thanks for the invitation, Pedro M. Rocha! 
I got inspired and wrote more than could fit in. So, will be continued!

part 1 & 2 in one podcast.
https://soundcloud.com/soundmaking_podcast/soundmaking-ep50-david-helbich-echo-ovations-part-12

Echo-Ovations (some spaced out thoughts and memories about acoustic impressions)

for Clarinet and sound design. Clarinet: Daniel Pastene. Recording and mixing Alejandro Rivas C. 
Recorded at Bijloke Studios, Belgium. (Nov 2009)

"Pendulo"

This short clip demonstrates the Faulkner Phased Array. Placed on a central stand in front of the stage. For more information visit :- https://martinmitchellsmicrophones.wordpress.com/2022/03/17/the-faulkner-phased-array-another-useful-stereo-microphone-technique/
Many thanks to Isaac Williams Violin (winner of the Audience Vote in the Gloucestershire Young Musician of the Year 2022)and John Wright Piano.

Faulkner Array Violin And Piano

À la lisière du monde civilisé, la bête.  Elle a choisi l’aube.

"On ne se perd jamais en groupe" prétendait le réalisateur Yann Paranthoën pour souligner l'intérêt - pour créer - de préserver des situations de dérive solitaire (versus le travail collectif hiérarchiquement ordonné) ! Comme pour faire mentir cette assertion, Felix Blume et ses stagiaires ont cherché, eux, à se perdre collectivement. Ils nous livrent une Camargue sans touristes, enregistrée au petit matin sous un ciel voilé, la menace permanente d'un orage tonnant au loin. A la lisière de l'Etang, en bordure de mer, des micros se faufilent dans les roselières, tandis que d'autres plongent sous la surface de l’eau, un imaginaire prend forme, des Toros meuglent, une bête (la «  bête du Vaccarès » ?) s'agite !
Enregistrement et montage de ce film sans images ni paroles ont été réalisés dans le cadre du workshop field-recording organisé par Phonurgia Nova avec Félix Blume, par Clément Bernardeau, Léa Capuano, Mathieu Chiaverini, Caroline Henry, Marie Muller, Fabienne Pélage, Nayra Prieto et Emmanuel Vigier
Arles - Septembre 2022

N'ayez crainte

13 vinyl records full of sound effects, intended to accompany the screening of otherwise silent home made super 8 films, were sampled and rearranged by association to form a new sound track for an imaginary film.

All sounds sampled from vinyl & recomposed by Willem Sannen
Artwork by Tariq Heijboer

Fireplace

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DL Extended Mix

The Weeknd - The Hills (WATTO Rework)

(Gallego) 
O vento, coma os soños, disipa os nosas néboas soterradas
Leva as nosas pedras ennegrecidas, rechinando de pena.
O lóstrego fragmentaos e esnaquízaos. Para que a terra poida voltar a dixerilos.
Durante unha noite o raposa aconsella antes de que se pechen as portas dos soños.

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(fr)
Le vent, comme les rêves, chasse nos brumes enfouies
Charrie nos cailloux noircis, grinçant de chagrin.
Le tonnerre les fragmente et les égrène. 
Pour que la terre les digère à nouveau. 
Le temps d'une nuit la renarde avise et conseille avant que la porte des songes ne se referme.

Raposa

LUDWIG BERGER - SPECIES LONELINESS
Cat #: OUS051
Release date: March 29, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«I wanted to revisit the sound worlds of 1970s eco-horror films, a time of growing fears about environmental consequences. Today, we no longer fear the revenge of frogs or insects; we are mourning their vanishing. My music channels the eerie, anticipatory dread of those films into a contemporary lament for what’s been lost and a search for what might still be restored.» — @ludwigberger

Leading up to his first ‘fictional’ album «Garden of Ediacara», which will be released on May 3rd via -OUS,  landscape sound artist Ludwig Berger presents the EP «Species Loneliness».

Building on an extensive and acclaimed body of work in sound art, field recordings, installation and performance, as well as music for film and theatre, the EP «Species Loneliness» and the subsequent  album «Garden of Ediacara» mark a shift in Berger’s creative work. But as he enters the realm of ‘fictional’ music by engaging with environmental emotions, he still relies on his far-reaching practice as a close listener and archivist of unheard sounds.

With «Species Loneliness», Berger explores a yearning for interspecies connection on a damaged planet. The six track EP presents a set of muted songs that are haunted by echoes of eco-horror and eco-gothic films of the past century, while interwoven raw field recordings create the space to breathe. The tracks center around the term of «Species Loneliness» — an ecological form of isolation and solitude. It expresses the feeling of homesickness while being at home, arising from the loss of natural habitats and the decline of biodiversity. Through layers of degraded samples, eco-nostalgia runs through the EP, longing for meaningful relationships obscured in the shadows of the Anthropocene.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. In his musical work, Berger produces sonic eco-fictions with processed and synthetic sounds.  He has composed sound and music for award-winning films and theatre pieces and curated the landscape sound festival ‘Sonic Topologies’ in Zurich. He is also founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. 

Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Ludwig Berger 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Album cover by Paulin Rogues

Species Loneliness

Sea of Decay

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