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Various Artists ~ Sounds of the Wetlands
This collection is so good that it may make prompt a move to the wetlands. The double album is the result of a SoundLapse project which united composers and field recording artists from Valdivia (Chile) and London, sharing sounds captured at the Valdivian wetlands and at the London Wetland Centre. The approaches are exciting and diverse, a cornucopia of sounds both natural and musical.…
One of the commonest ways to convert bird sounds into visual code is to use transcriptions into what seem the nearest equivalent human sounds in our own spoken language, e.g. quack, caw, tu-whit to-whoo... Most field guides offer careful transcriptions of the commonest calls & sometimes songs (pictures 1&2 Collins Bird Guide). John Bevis collected such transcriptions in his book „aaaaw to zzzzzd“ (pictures 3-6).
-> see also post above
David Vélez ~ The River Calder After seeing the illustration of a cute but anguished monster, one wants to know more. Lina Velandia…... http://acloserlisten.com/2026/06/07/david-velez-the-river-calder/
Magdaléna Manderlová ~ Kozmické louky The amazing Gruenrekorder label follows up last year's Sounds of the Wetlands, one of our top field recording albums of 2025, with a pair of water-based releases. ... http://acloserlisten.com/2026/06/06/magdalena-manderlova-kozmicke-louky/
BMB con. ~ Μεσσήνη (Μαυρομμάτι)
Finally seeing the light of day this summer is a recording over two thousand years in the making. Recorded over the course of three days as part of the 2018 Tuned City festival in Μεσσήνη, Greece, BMB con.’s Μεσσήνη (Μαυρομμάτι) is a documentation of a series of performances, a record of the duo’s engagement with a specific place: the ancient city of Μεσσήνη (Messene). The city’s ruined…
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Nicola Di Croce ~ Affects and aesthetic speculations
Featuring recordings from Italy, Iceland and Portugal, Affects and aesthetic speculations is an invitation to consider the listener within the sonic environment. How is one affected by the sounds one hears? How do human sounds affect the biosphere? Do listeners acclimate or attempt to dominate? The Doks of Cagliari is the opening subject, awash in the sounds of traffic and sea: two competing…
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Various Artists ~ Sounds of Absence
Various Artists ~ Sounds of Absence
In the coming years, sonologists will continue to be grateful for the work of field recording artists during the pandemic. Guided by curiosity, working for the most part without pay, such artists captured aural time capsules: innumerable hours of raw material in which is encoded vital information about our species and its relationship to the biosphere. On Sounds of Absence, Peter Kiefer, head…
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