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so, in line with resonance fm‘s new broadcasting schedule, after this edition we’ll be taking a short spring break – just 2 weeks – and returning to you with edition #928 on sunday, april 27th. we think we’ll send out some archive recommendations in that time to get you your listening fix, but we’ll mostly be out in the garden trying to trim the apple trees and repair the greenhouse. no raking though! for the bugs! we’ll also be using the time to get over this horrible flu that everyone here at framework HQ has been struck down with. just in time for our “holiday”, nice.
but on with the show: this week’s edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by author and sound artist brian c. short, using sounds collecting in thailand. for more of his work see https://briancshort.substack.com. producer’s notes:
For a couple of months in 2022/23, I lived across the narrow street from Wat Umong, one of the many Buddhist temples of Chiang Mai, Thailand, and would regularly walk through its grounds. This piece is based upon a recording made of one of those walks, as well as other nearby environments, with added instrumentation of guitar, sine waves, and various modes of processing. Its title, “for the ones who have been buried” is based on an ongoing meditation on death and the ancestors, whether personal to me or not; I imagined that the monks I recorded chanting were addressing those previous monks of the temple who had died, and therefore the lineage of their instruction, its transmission – though I don’t know this to be the case at all. At the far end of the temple grounds stands a crematorium which I would pass on my way to my regular coffee shop, where I would go and write.
This piece was intended as an episode of my regular podcast Numinosum Radio, which every two weeks features an original work of drone/ambient/experimental composition, normally 30 minutes in length. Since it was an experiment in duration, being an hour long instead, it is a bit of an outlier piece to that format, and therefore a bit homeless, made to also wander strangely like a ghost. May the prayers of these monks find its spirit, and bring it home to rest.
Numinosum Radio can be found at briancshort.substack.com or through regular podcast channels such as Apple Podcasts, as well as on CAMP Radio, at listen.camp.