A dual contact microphone recording of a wire fence moving and resonating in the wind.

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Rabbit Heugh, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'15.9"N 2°31'06.9"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/YoKEjbv2FSqgawwK6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Wire Fence, Rabbit Heugh

A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/GLVb4qVRaCbDXk8y9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Wind Harp, Walltown Crags

A hydrophone recording of water boatman stridulation. Water boatmen, which are common around the world in still and running water habitats, are regarded as the loudest creature on the planet, relative to their size yet we don't hear them above water.

Recorded 27 January 2021 at Horsetail Ponds, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'21.0"N 2°31'07.6"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/TgHARMsvNMQUjtEv6

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Water Boatman Stridulation, Horsetail Ponds

A binaural recording of footsteps up to and passing through a gate on the Pennine Way, on the edge of the National Park car park at Walltown.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'15.9"N 2°31'12.9"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/GWryk4RAS1qS6he87

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Walltown Car Park Gate

VLF radio signals generated by natural atmospheric electromagnetic activity recorded with a VLF radio receiver. The planet is struck around 100 times per second by lightning and each click in the recording is a single lightning flash somewhere within a 2000 mile radius 

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Walltown Crags, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'20.1"N, 2°30'52.5"W
Google Maps: goo.gl/maps/AEJaU7Cz4paEwamq9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Sferics, Walltown Crags

A binaural contact microphone recording of the tiny bubbles produced by a water soaked cushion of moss expirating as it photosynthesises.

Recorded 4 March 2021 at Walltown Crags, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'20.1"N 2°30'52.5"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/AEJaU7Cz4paEwamq9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Inside a Moss Cushion, Walltown

A geophone recording of the ice sheet on the frozen Quarry Lake creaking as it moves with the rippling water, and the otherwise inaudible low frequency sound of the breeze on the surface of the ice.

Recorded 27 January 2021 at Quarry Lake, Walltown, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'14.7"N 2°31'03.9"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/UoAG94yz3eVVyqmPA

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Ice Moving, Wind Booming, Quarry Lake

Hidden-by-the-Wall is a new soundwork by :zoviet*france: commissioned by Green Croft Arts as part of its Collision and Conflict project.

Collision and Conflict is a GPS-triggered geolocated sound walk, presented through the Echoes phone app, that follows a circular route between Walltown and Green Croft in Northumberland, UK. The route runs alongside and close by Hadrian's Wall, a vast Roman defensive fortification that runs east/west across northern England, marking the northwestern frontier of the Roman empire. While following the route, walkers can listen to each of the 14 new music, sound and spoken word Collision and Conflict compositions at the locations to which they've been allocated along the way. Hidden-by-the-Wall can be found along a stretch of open country between Walltown and Thirlwall, a high point from which the distant Scottish borders to the north and the North Pennines to the south straddle the horizons.

In devising Hidden-by-the-Wall we set out to capture hidden and unnoticed sounds in the vicinity and recreate lost sounds that would have been heard decades ago but have now gone forever. The original field recordings that form the hidden and unnoticed sounds are here in this playlist. More about each track can be found in the description on its page. Those tracks form an  open remix project with 11 original, downloadable 24 bit / 48kbps field recordings we captured to create this track. We invite anyone to take these and use them to create something new. If you do, please post it here on SoundCloud and let us know – we very much want to hear what you do with them.

More on Collision and Conflict:
www.greencroftonthewall.com/collision-and-conflict

Open remix tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

Hear the remixes:
https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-remixes

Hidden-by-the-Wall

This is posted by us on behalf of {AN} Eel – a remix of field recordings made available in our Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project. It's open to everyone, more details and download links here:

https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix

{AN} Eel on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/nealretke

Hidden-by-the-Wall Remix ( {AN} EeL Versio )

An extract from a track on the new :zoviet*france: album, The Tables Are Turning, released by Soleilmoon Recordings 18 November 2013.

http://soleilmoon.com/

http://www.balletlorent.com/dbsolo.html

Poured out Slowly [extract]

This is an unedited recording of our live performance at the 6th Next Sound festival in Kyiv, in 2018.

We are making this available as a free download and in doing so, urge you to make a donation to a not for profit humanitarian aid organisation that's supporting people in Ukraine. There are many of these all over the world so you should be able to find one near you. In the UK, donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), an alliance of 15 charities, will be matched by the government, up to a maximum of £20million:
https://donation.dec.org.uk/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal

Recorded live in concert at Next Sound, Saturday 6 October 2018
http://nextsound.org/2018/

Venue: Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine
https://ra.co/promoters/44245

Unedited stereo recording from the on-stage mixer operated by :zoviet*france: (this is a mirror sound image of what was heard by the audience)

Composed, performed and mixed by :zoviet*france: As with all of our live performances, this was completely improvised

1st edition AAC 320 kbps, released as a free download 8 March 2022

© 2018 copyright control

cover photo: Aerial view of Kyiv Oblast © :zoviet*france:

Live at Next Sound, Closer, Kyiv, 6 October 2018

From the :zoviet*france: soundtrack to 'Savageland', a film by Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert and David Whelan.

http://www.savageland-film.com

Savageland | GG Seq

:zoviet*france: - Montag

Recorded live at Wave Gotik Treffen, Volkspalast Kantine, Leipzig, 29 May 2023

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Released as a free download (AIFF 16/44.1) 5 July 2023

© 2023 copyright control

Montag

A recording of an aeolian harp, part of 'HmmHoo', a temporary sound installation by :zoviet*france:, commissioned by artist Sally Madge for her Shelter project.

Recorded 7 September 2014.

http://thesheltermuseum.net/events/hmmhoo-a-sound-installation-by-zovietfrance/

http://www.sallymadge.com/work/shelter.html



HmmHoo - Aeolian Harp Recorded from Inside the Shelter (2)

A recording of a wave organ, part of 'HmmHoo', a temporary sound installation by :zoviet*france:, commissioned by artist Sally Madge for her Shelter project.

Recorded 7 September 2014.

thesheltermuseum.net/events/hmmhoo-…-zovietfrance/

www.sallymadge.com/work/shelter.html

HmmHoo - Wave Organ (Sited on Sand Dune)

Wave Organ (MW2 Sited on Rock Ledge)

Recorded directly from our own on-stage mixing desk.

Thanks to all at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival.

http://www.sfemf.org

Live at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Brava Theater, 13 September 2014

From the :zoviet*france: soundtrack to 'Savageland', a film by Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert and David Whelan.

www.savageland-film.com

Beholden by a Tail

Bokor

Embedded

From the soundtrack to 'A Tree Full of Monkeys', a collaboration with Simon Armitage, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and performed and broadcast live to mark the opening of Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, 7 July 2002.

http://www.simonarmitage.com

http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/t/tr/tree_full_of_monkeys__a.html

[untitled – 'A Tree Full of Monkeys' track 07]

Four Meadows

:zoviet*france:
:: live in concert at Incubate festival 18:00 Sunday 18 September 2011
:: venue: Dommelsch Zaal, Poppodium 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands
:: unedited stereo recording from the on-stage mixer operated by :zoviet*france: (this is a mirror sound image of what was heard by the audience)
:: 1st edition AAC 320 kbps - released as a free download 19 September 2011
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Composed, performed and mixed by :zoviet*france: As with all of our live performances, this was completely improvised
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"Your right isn't necessarily my right."
-Lamargi (from "The Knowledge of Nothing, The Ignorance of Something").


Live at Incubate, Poppodium 013, Tilburg 18.09.11 [SoundCloud release]

Extract from the live performance at Wrocław Industrial Festival, Sala Gotycka, Wrocław, Poland, 12 November 2011.

More information: http://industrialart.eu/festival/index.php

Wrocław Industrial Festival on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/219534100312/

Live at Wrocław Industrial Festival, Sala Gotycka, Wrocław, Poland, 12 November 2011 (extract)

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

Created yesterday from original recordings made on location under a bridge in Wester Ross, and in a hawthorn glade in north Northumberland.

It's Been a While

:zoviet*france: - Farewell to Coal and Ice
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Created during the soundcheck for a live performance at What Has to Be Done, a tribute to Chris Wainwright at Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK, 11 October 2018.
https://bit.ly/2ODQiW8
http://chriswainwright.com

Farewell to Coal and Ice incorporates field recordings we made during an exploratory trip to the abandoned Russian coal mining town of Pyramiden, Svalbard with Chris and his wife, Anne, in 2017.

Farewell to Coal and Ice

For each of the live shows on our five-date tour of Italy in October/November 2018, we adapted the performance to each of the very different venues. As well as the acoustic properties of the space and the PA system, we incorporated something of each venue's character, and at Mikasa, it was the creaky stage, which opens and closes this recording.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible: Daimon (Simon Balestrazzi, Paolo Monti, Nicola Quiriconi), who organised and managed the tour, as well as performing their own fine shows, and to Antonio Altini at Mikasa for the attention to detail.

Live at Mikasa, Bologna, 3 November 2018

:zoviet*france: - Misteltan (Live Winter Solstice 2019)

Recorded live at Advent Calendar Live, North Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 December 2019.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2393766100884963/

Advent Calendar Live was a fundraising event for the Age UK and Shelter charities; donate here:
https://donate.ageuk.org.uk/public/donate2.aspx?content=general
https://england.shelter.org.uk/donate

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Released as a free download 9 January 2020

© 2019 copyright control

Misteltan (Live Winter Solstice 2019)

A track from the soundtrack to 'Strange Place for Snow' (2010), a short film by Finnish artist, Henna-Riikka Halonen.

http://www.hennariikkahalonen.me.uk/works/2010_SOME_POTENTIAL_SCENARIOS/index.html

http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/strange-place-for-snow_en/

Supermarché abandonné

This is a stereo mix of an eight channel recording made by Groupe de Recherches Musicales of a live performance with sound projection via the Acousmonium sound system.

http://www.presenceselectroniques.ch/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acousmonium

Live at Présences électronique Gèneve 3, Théâtre Casino, Geneva 2013-01-12

A track recorded for the soundtrack to the contemporary dance production, 'Auricular' by Surface Area Dance Theatre.

'Auricular' was premiered at Baltic39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on 28 and 29 June 2013.

http://www.surfacearea.info/news/auricular.html

http://www.dancecity.co.uk/events/performances/568/auricular-surface-area-dance-theatre

Corrugated

Captured during a recording session for the soundtrack to the Surface Area Dance Theatre production, 'Auricular', 11 June 2013.

http://www.surfacearea.info/news/auricular.html

Later Light

:zoviet*france: - Loaded by the Moon
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This track forms part of the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'
http://www.surfacearea.info

Loaded by the Moon

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