[microsound-announce] [framework radio] #751: 2021.04.04

Mon Apr 5 02:19:01 EDT 2021

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#751: 2921.04.04
listen to this edition here:
https://frameworkradio.net/2021/04/751-2021-04-04/

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100 patrons! as a happy-750th-show present, you brought us to this 
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this edition, entitled 'peace of home', has been produced in canada by 
shawn pinchbeck. for more information see http://www.spinchbeck.com/, or 
https://shawnpinchbeck.bandcamp.com/. producer's notes:

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Peace of Home

At the beginning of the global pandemic in May 2020, I was living in the 
North Western Peace Region of Alberta, Canada in the city of Grande Prairie.

Looking for something socially distant and outdoors to do, I started 
driving into the countryside and recording the soundscapes I found there 
with a Sennheiser Ambeo VR Microphone and Zoom F4 recorder. At first, I 
didn’t have a project in mind. I was just enjoying exploring the 
different places I found and the recordings I was making. Then, an idea 
for a soundscape piece documenting places in the four directions away 
from the city took hold.

The area itself is very diverse with the northern most Canadian prairie 
making up a large part of the area, but also forests, foothills, lakes, 
rivers, and vast valleys with significant natural areas. Depending which 
direction you travel from the city, you find different types of economic 
and human activity such as: farming, honey production, forestry, oil and 
gas and recreation.

The piece follows the chronological order of my explorations into the 
four directions from Grande Prairie. Most excursions were day long 
experiences with sometimes hundreds of kilometres covered, thanks to the 
long daylight hours in north western Alberta.

The recordings you hear start with my backyard in Grande Prairie with 
the noise of pickup trucks and people in the neighbourhood as a storm 
approaches kicking up the wind. In the first segment, we travel to the 
East down Highway 43 towards the vast Smokey River valley and the nearby 
badlands of the Kleskun Hills. In the second segment, we go South down 
Highway 40 to the nearby Wapiti River Valley and O’brien Provincial 
Park, where many Grande Prairians go for walks and picnics in the park. 
We continue to the Grovedale area with its endless kilometres of 
farmland and finally end up in the Rocky Mountain foothills at the 
picturesque Musreau Lake. In the next segment we travel West to the 
Beaver Lodge area, just a few kilometers shy of the border with British 
Columbia; enjoying the hospitality and environs of filmmaker David 
McGregor and his bees, ducks and chickens. In the final segment, we go 
north to the Dunvegan suspension bridge that spans the mighty Peace 
River valley and the historical site there, finishing a bit south west 
in the nearby Saddle hills at a lake at the top of a hill by the name of 
Hilltop Lake!

I wish to thank the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society and their Artist 
Bursary program for funding this piece. I also wish to thank the Grande 
Prairie Regional College for providing the recording equipment.

A binaural version of this piece is available at:
shawnpinchbeck.bandcamp.com

Biography

Shawn Pinchbeck is an award winning Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and 
Viljandi, Estonia based electroacoustic music composer, sound designer, 
audio engineer, performer, media artist, curator and educator. His 
artworks explore all things that sound, merging elements such as video, 
computer interaction, multi-speaker environments, sensors and 
electronics, interdisciplinary performance and installation art.

Shawn’s works are presented widely at festivals and exhibits across 
Canada and Europe. He has eight releases of electroacoustic, film and 
ambient music, most recently collaborating with Rose McDowall on the 
soundtrack for Far From the Apple Tree available on Glass Modern 
Records. He performs live regularly and his music and sound design has 
been used in numerous films and contemporary dance performances. Shawn 
holds MMus and PhD degrees in electroacoustic music composition from the 
University of Birmingham, UK where he studied with Erik Oña and Jonty 
Harrison.

Shawn was one of the founding members of the Boreal Electroacoustic 
Music Society (BEAMS) and is currently its President. He hosts a yearly 
artist residency program in Viljandi, Estonia.

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recordings, field recording based composition, or introduction 
submissions. we are also now accepting proposals for full editions of 
our guest curated framework:afield series. send proposals or material, 
released or not, on any format, to the address at the bottom of this 
mail. if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

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framework intro submissions:

    1)    take yourself and an audio recorder to a location of your choice
    2)    record for AT LEAST 1 minute before you -
    3)    read aloud the following text (in english or translated):

welcome to framework. framework is a show consecrated to 
field-recording, and its use in composition.  field-recording, 
phonography, the art of sound hunting; open your ears and listen!

    4)    continue recording for AT LEAST 2 minutes after the text
    5)    post the 
recording to us on any format, or send us an mp3

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