field-recording
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QUANTUM BLUES
France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite…
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“a mic at a window…”
Presque Tout launched in 2019 as a Bandcamp page, a humble ongoing digital archive of field recordings from around the world. Anyone can participate, and the parameters for inclusion are very straightforward: Make a recording from an open window, with no editing and minimal signal processing, and then email it to them. Submissions took off during the pandemic,…
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Enrico Coniglio ~ Songs from Ruined Days
Enrico Coniglio is a Venetian sound artist, creating pieces out of washed-out drones and ambient guitar loops while integrating them into field recordings. With a background in urban planning, his work explores the aural identity of place in a very sophisticated, if subjective, manner. His latest work is Songs from Ruined Days, a long form recording that…
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Liminaria / Interferenze 2022
I spent 23 June – 3 July 2022 in rural southern Italy as artist-in-residence as part of the Liminaria / Interferenze festivals. This page collects the works produced during those residencies. — dopo il diluvio is a binaural soundwalk made for headphones, following a specific route through the town of San Martino Valle Caudina (AV). This soundwalk…
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From the Cistern
Reverb. Love it or hate it, its use has become ubiquitous since at least the advent of the bedroom studio. Digital modeling more often than not replaces natural reverb these days, and even spring reverbs and make-shift creative solutions of the past (eg. Butch Vig’s drum-tunnel as heard on Nirvana’s Nevermind) have become either fetishized or,…
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Montreal (QC) – 04/07/2021, 3:54 pm
Montreal (QC) – 04/07/2021, 3:54 pm is my first contribution to the Presque Tout project. Alleys are a defining feature of urban life in Montreal, and during the pandemic I’ve become especially sensitive to the gradual changes that take place. Last summer, I noticed a Palestinian woman would often stop to pluck a few grape…
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Music For Insurrection
Dedicated to George Floyd I. every precinct an autozone 01:51 II. a new world from the ashes of the old 10:41 III. fuck12 05:59 IV. minnesota nice 09:50 V. this aint a riot 22:39 VI. 8’46” 08:46 I lived in South Minneapolis for 4 years, most of that time in an apartment building on Chicago…
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Montreal Underground
“Montreal Underground” – field-recording contribution to the Montreal Sound Map (2010) While I had made field-recordings on tape for years, I had only vague plans for them, and more often than not I used the micro-cassette recorder I carried around to record stray thoughts in the era before smart phones. Thus “Montreal Underground” (2010) is…
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Recorded Security
Useless Sounds is a series I began in January 2019 to share unprocessed field-recordings. Stefan Christoff encouraged me to make my recordings public more often, rather than just accumulating in my archive or waiting for potential inclusion in a hypothetical future project. Recorded Security is the latest installment. Ever wondered what the inside the…
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Sound Propositions 017: Gonçalo F Cardoso (Gonzo)
Discrepant label boss Gonçalo F Cardoso explores the noise(s) of his homeland Portugal on Ruído(s), his final work under the Gonzo moniker. One part sonic capriccio, one part subjective dream journal, Ruído(s) is a fitting farewell to Gonzo’s roving audio diaries. While Cardoso will still be releasing music under other names, he will use the…
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Inverted Microphones: Giovanni Lami’s Tapeocracy
In the film Il Postino (1994), the titular Postman becomes inspired to express himself after encountering the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, living in exile on a small island in the south of Italy. Neruda helps the Postman, Mario, to pursue his own Beatrice, standing in for Dante’s ideal woman. The Postman successfully courts his love,…
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Temps de Travail, Syncopé
In December 2018, Stefan Christoff and I released a tape called Temps de Travail, Syncopé, the culmination of several live performances and radio presentations exploring the idea of our age of work and the rhythms of daily life structured around bartering our labor. If our first collaboration, les rumeurs de la montagne rouge en chœur,…
Sound Propositions 