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Scott Sherk - Icelandic Air

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Scott Sherk spent a month collecting sounds in and around Reykjavik, Iceland as part of a SIMS residency. Iceland’s dramatic landscape of severe, gray extremes affects the sounds that resonate in the crystal-clear air. The twelve recordings that comprise the suite “icelandic air” attempt to capture the various spaces and sonic environments of Iceland from the crunch of volcanic beach pebbles to the windblown fields of sheep to the cement interior of a cathedral.

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Mike & Nathan
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Ernst Karel - Outside Laboratories at Night

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Live performance at AS220, Providence RI, 26 May 2007, using location recordings made outside research laboratory buildings at night on the campus of Harvard University, and modular analog electronics.

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Mike & Nathan
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Ascsoms - Realms

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London based audio artist Adam J Wimbush primarily works with processed field recordings, electronics and acoustic elements. His compositions are assembled from the results of numerous improvised and manipulated sonic experiments. From these, detailed extracts are chosen, and then the individual segments undergo further modification, before being edited together into a single aural environment.

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Mike & Nathan
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Lance Olsen - Edges: An Audio Portrait

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The raw tracks for this work were gathered over a few nights around the Nanaimo Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  The work is designed for careful listening through headphones and is deliberately low key.

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Mike & Nathan
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C.fieldechoes - Subterranean Salt Echoes

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The soundmark of this field recording is the natural reverb of crowds situated deep underground in the Salina Praid salt mine.  'Salina Praid' is located in the Transylvania/Harghita countryside of Romania."  The sound has a unique imprint especially because of the salt all over, the size and the irregularities of the walls left after the excavation processes.

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Mike & Nathan
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Melt : Minnesota Remixed

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In 2006, Wandering Ear debuted with the compilation "Thaw: Field Recordings from Minnesota". Now, a host of audio artists from around the world have used these recordings as source material for remixes, bending and folding the sounds to their own ends. Ducks, geese, lakes, waterfalls, boats, helicopters, and answering machine messages are spun into new and unexpected dimensions.


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Mike & Nathan
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we004 - Lori Beckstead & Dave Rose - Winanga-li: Australian Soundscapes

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The name of the work is an Aboriginal word from the Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay language of northern New South Wales meaning “to hear, to listen, to know, to remember”.  These soundscapes, recorded in Australia, were captured using binaural microphones. By placing a microphone close to each ear, binaural recordings attempt to capture sound just the way you would hear it if you had been there.

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Mike & Nathan
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we003 - Michael Palace / Horchata - Tapajos National Forest

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Recorded in the Brazilian Tapajos National Forest, during his fallen necrmass studies, Michael Palace brings back a wonderful recording!

"In this recording I set up the mini disc recorder and microphone and left it to record while I went to do measurements. In the beginning you can hear me set up the microphone and walk into the forest with my field guide Fransico, who lived near the research site and worked with me for a number of years. The area that we recorded was near a road used by researchers and at one point you can hear a truck go by. At the end you can hear me come out of the woods and get picked up by the other researchers. Also of note are the cicadas and their cycling of calls, a branch fall, and some animal that went up and curiously examined the recording equipment."

Download this release and read more about Michael's journey into the Amazon jungle here!

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Mike & Nathan
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we002 - Matthew Sansom - Sacralizing Space: location recordings from the Blue Mosque

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"Sacralizing Space" is presented in two parts. The first recording was made at dawn outside Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. The second is of the dawn prayer itself from inside the mosque.

Sansom says of this work: "For some time I have been documenting through audio recording the sounds and spaces of a number of places in the Islamic world. My European ears have become fascinated with what they have been hearing. On one level this is certainly to do with the luxurious spatial physicality of the sounds as they resonate within and across the particular architectural forms and cityscapes of these locations. On another level there is the symbolism and meaning that can be understood from the spiritual tradition that these soundscapes exist within."

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Mike & Nathan
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