We meet one-time Cabaret Voltaire man Chris Watson, a leading practitioner of the art for decades, and Simon Fisher Turner has some great tips for anybody who is just starting out. So what’s the allure of capturing the sounds of the world around us? Why do people do it? How do they go about it? And what do they do with their recordings? We’ve talked to many of our most innovative field recordists for this month’s cover feature, including Haiku Salut, Erland Cooper and Langham Research Centre.
We are investigating the fine art of Field Recording in the latest issue of Electronic Sound and we have a superb double CD – more than two hours of brilliant music – to accompany the magazine.
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‘Namib’ will be introduced by Mike Harding and is part of a series of events celebrating 40 years of Touch.
Insects vibrate and sing into the night air – a vital and dangerous practice as advertising for a mate also sends signals to the acute auditory senses of predators, large and small, that stalk amongst the stillness of the sands. The piece reveals the deep rhythms and sound of an evolving sand dune, from individual grains to moving mountain as it creeps in advance of the prevailing winds.Īfter dark, the dunes, cliffs and valleys are patrolled by an emerging alien empire. The Namib is a place to listen back in time, above and below the surface. This event brings moisture and life to the flora and fauna whilst the reduced visibility allows the listener to tune into one of the few spaces left on our planet not smeared with noise pollution. ‘Namib’ will trace the sound shift created by a dense Atlantic fog bank as it swirls inland before sunrise and transforms the acoustics around the huge sandstone outcrops along the bone dry banks of the Kuiseb river. The piece reflects a timescale beyond our reckoning it aims to compress 50 million years of evolution into a 20 minute surround soundscape. ‘Namib’ is a multi-channel composition created from location recordings made over the last eight years from the Skeleton coast to remote interior dunes. You can read an interview with Chris about this piece hereĮxtending over 2,000 miles down the Atlantic coast of West and South Africa, the Namib desert is an ancient and unique landscape a vast mobile ocean of sand where humans mostly fear to tread. This multi-channel sound event in Santa Cruz, California, takes place April 29th-30th 2022. In 2022 Touch (Chris Watson’s label and publisher) will celebrate forty years of activity so we thought we’d organize a few events to mark this achievement, not only to reflect on the long journey but also cast our eyes on what the future might hold for the creative arts. WEATHER is created by Manchester Collective and co-commissioned with the Southbank Centre Every sound you will hear has come from the places I have visited – the voices of those habitats speak to the future generations, who might not be able to experience them for themselves.” This project has given me the opportunity to work with these sounds to create an ambient, multi-channel installation that places the audience where my microphones were when I made the original recordings. “During my travels, I have recorded in many habitats around the world that are under threat from climate change, capturing the sounds of places that are disappearing.
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For this project, Chris has revisited his extensive archive to create an immersive sound installation which accompanies the string orchestra’s hour-long performance: You’ll be transported from an East Asian rainforest to the world’s oldest desert from an Icelandic glacier to the sunken medieval town of Dunwich off the English coast… Combining live performance, real-world sound and film, WEATHER is an artistic record of threatened environments that is urgent, haunting and unforgettable.Īward-winning field recordist Chris Watson has worked on some of the BBC’s best-loved documentaries, including David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet and The Life of Birds. Michael Gordon’s cult 1997 piece ‘Weather’ for amplified string orchestra is brought to life in this musical tour-de-force – a brand new collaboration between Manchester Collective, seminal sound artist Chris Watson, and Spanish filmmaker Carlos Casas.
Each shaped, scarred and transformed by extreme weather events. A breathtaking journey through four natural habitats.
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