[microsound] sound and ecology

[Michael Palace]

Can I suggest wandering ear?  It has lots of field recordings and I have 
one up there from sounds I recorded in Amazonia.
http://www.wanderingear.com/

I have a ton of field recordings collected during work in Brazil for 
ecological research.  Also my music, under the name horchata, has always 
had an ecological bent.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Horchata

Here is a short interview about one of my albums in which I discuss the 
ecological nature of some of the sound design and composition.
"Acytota" involves the use of many different snippets of sounds from 
field recordings, synthesizer programs, computer code and effect patches 
that I have made over the past few years. I viewed these as building 
blocks in development of a sound or idea of a song and only began to 
place them in a compositional context for the completion of this album.

The idea of the album title and song titles can be viewed as how I 
viewed these elements of the song and sounds, i.e. they are pre-life 
aspects of sound and I approached the final versions of these songs a 
little differently than other Horchata releases.

Two of the field recordings are unaltered, but present transparent views 
of the world where and when I made those sounds. The last song uses 
every one of my Horchata songs I could find. It is a series of samples 
scanned over on a macrolevel and sound and frequency is made through 
spinning past each of the songs and jumping around between them.

Though I like ambient, glitchcore music and academic electroacoustic 
music, I rarely find them together in one song or on a release. I find 
the glitchcore relies too much on rhythm, which I admire, but lack 
personally, academic music needs to be digested and read about, and 
ambient often is redundant and does not incorporate enough experimental 
aspects.

I attempted in this recording to meld these styles. Some songs have all 
three elements, some have only one, and though they may seem very 
different they, speak the same dialect which is sound as a small living 
organism, an entity of frequency that relies not only on itself, but 
flourishes in a small microcosm of other sounds, dependant and parasitic 
on large organisms.



Lorenzo wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> For audio samples it might be worth checking out freesound.org
>
> Lorenzo
>
> Tobias Reber wrote:
>> dear all,
>>
>> i'm currently working for a local WWF division and, when they learned about
>> what I do, was asked to collect material and links on sound in an ecological
>> context, meaning:
>>
>> - sound design / acoustic identity work for agents like WWF, Greenpeace etc
>> - sound art as pedagogy
>> - sound and/or media art using natural processes, from aeolian harp to works
>> using digital technologies
>> - field recording
>> - noise pollution
>> - acoustic ecology
>> - etc
>>
>> i think i know at least the basics of each field but need as much examples
>> as i can get.
>>
>> any hint to interesting work is appreciated. thanks a lot!
>>
>> tobias
>>
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