3'33". 2015. Breath and voice piece in 3 parts. Commissioned by the MAMCO Museum, Geneva and Espace 2/National Swiss Radio to be installed and broadcast by satellite on the night of Art's Birthday, 17 Jan. Image: C Bergvall, Together (doing it), graphic print, 2015

TOGETHER (1. Keeping it)

Recorded at the edge of the littoral rainforest, not far from Burning Palms beach.
This sound was created by two trees rubbing against each other in the wind.
Recorded around 9am on the 29th of September, 2014.

Two Trees Rubbing Against Each Other On The South Coast

For flute, clarinet, transformations and fixed media using sampled clarinet and bassoon. It is scored for flute and clarinet with live processing and fixed media.  These woodwind instruments were especially chosen for their organic link to the theme of the piece, making use of extended techniques on both instruments.  The fixed media track of the whispering wind was created from transformed clarinet and bassoon samples (special thanks to bassoonist Sherry Rea and clarinetist Gareth Stuart). All the other sounds are created live with automated processing of the flute and clarinet, generating both the floating magical touches in the melodic sections where the translucent harmony emerges through the mist, and the dramatic metamorphoses in the central sections.  

SONG OF THE TREES

Down the Royal Road is a new radio piece commissioned by Radio Arts (UK) as part of a series of works for radio on the theme of “Dreamlands“.

Description: 
Freud described dreams as the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious – a pathway to the essence of wishes and desires of the human mind. This radio piece presents an intimate portrait of a group of dreamers trying to salvage information from their dreams by recalling transformative dream experiences. Also, a group of five psychotherapists share their views on dreams and how they can be helpful in the clinical practice to gain a deeper understanding of the patient. Dream debris, free association, and dream theory float through the ether of radio waves, exploring the concept of newness in dreams and the bridge between the unconscious and waking life.
In order of appearance:  
Dreamers: Pierre Faa, Tiago Saga, Helena Espvall, David Monteiro and Derek Moench. 
Psychotherapists: Dr. Angel Morgan, Dr. Conceição Almeida, Dr. Clara Soares, Dr. António Pazo Pires and Dr. Miguel Estrada. 

Thanks to Erica Buettner and Zed Boulé. 

Music by Helena Espvall, Cello & Electronics
http://helenaespvall.bandcamp.com/

Down The Royal Road

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A short track to emphasize the acoustic properties of the forests in Estonia. I have cut off most of the impulses to focus on reverberant response which can last 7 seconds or more. This was recorded at the (now infamous) 'forest megaphone' site on a dead calm evening in September 2015. The mics were not in the 'megaphones' however, but in the free air. The original file is in 24bit 48khz if you want to download and play with it.

Forest reverb - impulse response

Plantasia Street Blues

Also internationally known as the man behind the ADDAC Systems brand of modular synthesizers and several devices for electronic music, Portuguese sound and intermedia artist André Gonçalves is back with a new solo album, just one year after the release of “Musica Eterna – Pocket Music for the Space-Time Traveller”.
Fortunately so, because he was absent from the recording world for too long (10 years!), and because “Currents & Riptides” is an absolute marvel, establishing his music as one of the most intriguing in the experimental scene. Every kind of situation you can imagine is covered here, not to show off what he can do, but emerging naturally in the flux of events: combinations of analogic and digital sounds and tools, processing of field recordings and ready-made materials (the mutant electric guitar you can recognize because he wants you to), explorations of provoked or casual accidents, ambient soundscapes, noise, textures in constant change, immersive and insistent drones, you name it. When Gonçalves arrives to something beautiful and pleasing, he can’t resist to act against it with a rough contrast, like an ugly feedback or a cable violently taken out.
André Gonçalves may not appear much, even in concert, but when he does, in Portugal or somewhere else, is for maximum effect. This is one of those occasions. Behind him he has a long background, alone or with other people, playing under designations like OK Suitcase, Last Time This Happened We Had a Street Party, Stapletape, Gigantiq, Feltro and more. He likes to do laboratorial work, shaping structures, but also to improvise, and he did it Achim Wollscheid, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Casper Klausen, David Maranha, Eric La Casa, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Kenneth Kirschner, Manuel Mota, Michel J. Schumacher, Ernesto Rodrigues, Richard Garet, Phill Niblock, Sei Miguel and Tim Hecker between many others. It’s impossible to say if this music was produced in studio or freely improvised: sometimes it seems something meticulously composed, and other times it comes like the crude result of spontaneity. That doubt is what seduces us, knowing that the reverse is also highly probable. With him, we never know.

ANDRÉ GONÇALVES // Currents & Riptides

This is a record of a compact installation, consisting of dozens of miniature speakers and natural sound sources.
Almost all of the sounds - on the edge of audibility.

Jan Ryhalsky - Aesthetics Quiet Spaces - Fifth Miniature

Included in The Wire Tapper 44, the CD compilation included with the August 2017 edition of The Wire.

Badalisc (from The Wire Tapper 44)

The Inner Reaches of Outsider Radio
http://zepelimradio.com
http://radiooo.bandcamp.com
http://carlopatrao.com


Radio / sound collage / fringe

Down The Royal Road

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