Acoustic Sharawadgi

Ever witnessed the sudden appearance of a view or a sound, a perception of unexpected beauty that emerges out of context and with no intention leaving you baffled for this only moment by a feeling of plenitude and transports you elsewhere? This is what people call sharawadgi and goes back to the english statesman and [...]

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Sound and Space

Sound in public places is a frequent subject. In Berlin the research project “composed city” starts this week. “In composed city, public space will be used as an instrument. The public space will be played, and its sounds will help creating local identity. The sound work will be exhibited in Berlin at festival Tuned City [...]

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Sound Mirrors

Before radar was invented to detect enemy airforces, acoustic mirrors were build around the coasts of Great Britain to provide an early warning system. The huge concrete constructions can be found in Denge and on the Dungeness peninsula among others, for the latter check the video. There has been other quite curious approaches in history [...]

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Big Ben and Barrel Organs in the Streets

From my recent trip to Mexico I brought some sound snippets of twisted european heritage: the Torre Latinoamericana, the landmark tower in the city center Mexico DF, plays a cheap digital version of London’s Big Ben every hour. And notorious in the streets of DF and other Mexican cities are the out-of-tune barrel organs that [...]

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Hanna Hartman – Ailanthus

Every second of this short running CD is abundant with meticulously hand-graded sounds and precisely measured pauses that demands highly concentrated listening and rewards with ear-opening revelations of sonic correspondences between contrasting sound elements. The opening piece “Att fälla grova träd är förknippat med risker” (in english: to fell trees is attended with risks) imposes [...]

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The Sound of the City in Flaubert’s Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert searched with exhaustive care for evidence, documents and testimony to authenticate the account of France’s social classe and the political uproar through the revolution of 1848 that was expressed in his highly influencial novel “Sentimental Education” in unrivalled manner. His description of daily live sounds is particularly evocative, here is what his protagonist Frederic Moreau [...]

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What Jesus heard when Walking on Water

I made this recording at Sea of Galilee very close to the spot where Jesus was supposed to walk on water. I guess this must be what he heard at that excursion. By the way: scientific study has suggested that rare atmospheric and water conditions could have caused ice to form on the lake. The [...]

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Enrico Coniglio on Touch Radio

The Touch Radio series presents a recording of Enrico Coniglio made in the Venice lagoon on 29th april 2008 at 21:00 in a night-depot of boats of the public transport service at “Riva dei Schiavoni”, not far from San Marco square. One can hear the water lapping and the boats bumping in each other making [...]

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Sea Organ

There is a small group of musical instruments that operate without human interaction, the aeolian harp or wind chimes are commonly known as such unintentional sound producers.The Sea organ based in Zadar, Croatia, is another example: a system of polyethylene tubes situated underneath white marble steps are “played” by the incoming waves of the sea shore [...]

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Silence in the Words of…

Silence a boundary notion, a conceptual ideal, an aural vanishing point. Saying something about silence equals loosing it. Being silent is impossible may it include to cease living. Many words have been uttered to grasp this paradox.
There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
No Silence exists, that is [...]

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