Posted in sound matters, tagged field recording, soundscape on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in acoustic flotsam, tagged mexico, octavio paz, soundscape on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Octavio Paz, grown up in an outlying neighborhood of Mexico City, wrote in one of his poems:
Between what I see and what I say
Between what I say and what I keep silent
Between what I keep silent and what I dream
Between what I dream and what I forget:
Poetry.
One can easily replace poetry with sound or noise thinking [...]
Posted in quiet readings, tagged field recording, quiet readings, soundscape on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Environmental sound recording appears to look back on a short history: until the late 1960s is was only practiced by some biologists doing reasearch in acoustic interaction in nature. Understandably enough recording equipment at that time was heavy and prone to technical failure in the field. This changed not only due to developments in sound [...]
Posted in silent listenings, tagged field recording, silent listenings, soundscape on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to processed field recordings, this is one of my favourite albums. BJ Nilsen used various location recordings from such places like Iceland, Sweden, England and Italy and mingled them through a set of old worn out tape machines and analogue equipment. Surprisingly the drony sounds unfolding out of nature backgrounds resemble the [...]
Posted in acoustic flotsam, tagged acoustic flotsam, field recording, soundscape on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my best experiences while doing field recording. I catched this take in Costa Rica on a canoe ride down the cano negro, a mangrove swamp with lots of water ways and channels. On this bit a howler monkey started growling on the left hand side of the water, while spider monkeys climbed through [...]
Posted in acoustic flotsam, tagged acoustic flotsam, field recording, soundscape on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In may 2007 I travelled to Israel and the West-Bank on a political education programme. During the trip I did a lot of sound recordings in the streets of Jerusalem, Ramalah and Tel Aviv. Here is a collage of some of those sound bits, that I finished very quickly in about three hours, that is [...]
I’m Andreas Bick. I compose and I work with sound. This is my acoustic notebook. You can find my thoughts about books and CDs I like and some sound recordings I did on the way. (I also practise my english writing skills here, so excuses for the mistakes I make...) Silent listening is about the fringes of music, the periphery where music turns into sheer sound - concrete, wild, sometimes stunningly beautiful.
Visit me at www.andreas-bick.de.
