Soundwalkers

Half hour documentary from Raquel Castro about sound and listening featuring interviews with Christoh Cox, Janek Schaefer, Peter Cusack, Rafael Toral, Sabine Breitsameter and many others. I liked the story about a young mother who used sound to communicate with her downstair neighbour, an old lady she didn’t liked because the lady controlled her comings [...]

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Soundscapes go Commercial

How it could look like when field recording goes commercial, this video could be an example…

Noticed the man passing by with the magenta umbrella or the woman in LA with the skirt of the same colour? Some kind of subtle product placement since magenta is the brand colour of the German Telekom, who commisioned the [...]

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Vultures

This is another scene from Kenyas Masai Mara, indeed a quite ugly one: vultures feeding on a topi or a similar animal. There was some noisy dispute about who had the right to get the best of the meal, as you can hear…

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Elephants Grazing

I just returned from a short trip to Kenya which is, of course, famous for its abundance of wildlive. In the National Park Masai Mara we encountered a herd of elephants that just appeared in a bush and slowly approached our car while they peacefully grazed and ate. There was a very small baby elephant [...]

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Toshiya Tsunoda – O Respirar Da Paisagem

In this little series of CDs that I picked to circumscribe my area of interest, I hope that it is clear that I don’t go for the latest releases but works that kind of grow after repeated listening as it is in this case from 2003. Toshiya Tsunoda is frequently compared to artists like Chris [...]

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Four Questions by Jez Riley French

In an interview series about the hows, whys and what ifs of field recording I was pleased to answer Jez’ famous four questions. You can read the interview here, and please check the interview series with other sound artists in Jez Riley French’s blog, they are worth reading. He has just released underwater recordings of waterways [...]

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Erasing Audio with Christoph Korn

On a symposium about experimental radio art last weekend, I found the conceptual work of german artist Christoph Korn quite interesting in the context of this blog. Since three years he deals with automated audio erasing processes. He presented one piece that will be broadcasted later this year on german radiostation HR3 and is actually [...]

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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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Young Monks in Sri Lanka

Another entry to the acoustic flotsam series… I recorded those young monks in Sri Lanka around 1996. The boys were learning some buddhist text I guess, the teacher sat in front of them and the prayer was going on for quite some time.

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Eric La Casa – Air.Ratio

Everybody knows the constant whisper of air vents in hotel bathrooms or in restrooms of public places, a permanent sonic background to many modern buildings. The network of mechanized ventilation imposes a sound continuum on modern architecture that  provides an image of the rationalization of our interiour living conditions. Eric La Casa collects 30 recordings [...]

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