Recording Our Planet’s Acoustic Heritage—Before It’s Gone | Audubon Magazine →

The dark side of silence →

Professor David Hendy considers the age-old human desire for peace and quiet and the potential downsides of drowning out our own noise.

So Many Snapshots, So Few Voices Saved →

In the Field →

20/12/2012
In the Field, a two day symposium exploring the art and craft of field recording at the British Library, 15-16 February 2013
A two day symposium to open up and explore the practice, art and craft of field recording through a series of panel presentations, listenings and screenings. Starting from the early days of field recording the symposium aims to relate the multitude of contemporary field recording practices to their historical precedents and investigate issues in contemporary practices. These include: How field recordings are distributed to and heard by an audience; Recording the unheard; Mapping the urban; and questioning the extended nature of the field in a digital networked landscape.

Presenters include:
Chris Watson, Christina Kubisch, Jana Winderen, Peter Cusack, Ximena Alarcón, Joeri Bruyninckx, Angus Carlyle, Des Coulam, Simon Elliott, Felicity Ford, Helen Frosi (Sound fjord), Cathy Lane, Ici-Même, Zoe Irvine, Udo Noll – Radio Aporee, Francesca Panetta, Nye Parry, Cheryl Tipp, Davide Tidoni, David Vélez, Salome Voegelin, Claudia Wegener, and Mark Peter Wright.

Musique concrète

John Cage - The Works for Percussion 2 - THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

Cutting branches into two wheelbarrows

From Justin Buckley

An unedited field recording of three gardeners (including myself) cutting branches into smaller segments into two wheelbarrows. Although the recording wasn’t made with any musical intention nor was the branch cutting done as a performance, there’s still a nice interplay between the snipping sound of the shears against the bangs of the falling branches into the wheelbarrows. Credits for the ‘non-performance’ go to fellow gardeners Fumi Takayanagi and Ronny Holzmüller (who is by the way also on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/paul-novik).

A Wasteland in Paris

From Akionda.net

Aki Onda Cassette Memories in La Goutte d’Or
Organized by Birdcage and Collectif MU

Juee 2, 2012

Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history Extracting zeros and ones from turntables, reel-to-reel, and cassette tapes →

Chasing Ghosts of Poets Past →