#578: 2016.12.11 [d.l. lutz]

this seasonal edition of framework:afield has been produced in berlin by architect, writer, and sound artist d.l. lutz. his notes:

Earscape „Sacral“

Here we are, two weeks before Christmas. And this is why we will go to church and hear some „holy noise“, as R. Murray Schafer calls it. Churches are ritual spaces, and rituals always have an acoustical aspect. Maybe acoustics even dominate every ritual. Churches and organs are definitely built to impress acoustically. Michal Jacaszek from Poland, being fascinated by this aural atmosphere, has made field recordings inside the main churches of Gdansk and reworked them to compositions. I mixed these great sounds with my own field recordings from churches and bells in Germany, with music form Arvo Pärt, Arve Henriksen and others, and with excursions onto church towers and into religious realms further east. This earscape is quite musical and meant to be a soulful companion to the advent season. It is ended by a country gospel intonating „fill me with life anew“ for the beginning of a new year. So relax, light a candle and enjoy some holy noise! […]

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#576: 2016.11.27 [yannick dauby]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in taipei, taiwan by yannick dauby. for more information on his work see the following websites:

http://www.yannickdauby.net
http://www.kalerne.net

notes from the producer:

For the last few years, Yannick Dauby & Chien-Chang Yang have been teaching a class about “Soundscape & Sound Art” at National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Musicology. These courses are a pretext to engage a group of students, coming from different departments, to experience listening and field recording and to collaborate on sound projects concerning local environment in Taipei.

This year 2016, the students focused on the area of Southern Wanhua called Dongyuan, Shaoxing community and Fuyang Eco-Park. They spent a few months collecting sounds and building some pieces retracing their perceptions of these places. […]

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#574: 2016.11.13 [slavek kwi]

this is the fourth of a multipart series produced by slavek kwi, aka artificial memory trace, entitled soundlife. this is chapter 4: INTERMISION (NOISEPHASE). for more information, see http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com. notes from the producer:

SOUNDLIFE CHAPTER 4: INTERMISSION (NOISEPHASE)
Chapter Four from Soundlife of Slavek Kwi, radio-series

This is fourth instalment of another soundOrganism destined for Framework radio. These Soundscapes contains sequences triggered by my very ordinary and extraordinary soundEnvironments, which includes also creative-process-fragments from Sounday*s and spoken or sang thoughts.

Today, 5.11.2016, was my first Sounday* since July. I relocated then to eastern Clare, closer to western Atlantic coast of Ireland. We love it here. For the moment we are spending a lot of time renovating and updating house. We have here even separated studios from converted double-garage, wonderful prospects! […]

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#572: 2016.10.30 [thomas park]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by thomas park, aka mystified. for more information see his website at http://www.mystifiedmusic.com.

notes from the producer:

I call these sounds a ‘Music Of Poverty’– that seems apt, given that they were recorded in my low-rent apartment in South Saint Louis many years ago, when I had little money– and more time to record. Taken individually or mixed, I feel these recordings convey some sense of place, and of lifestyle. They also capture quite literally some of the peculiar sounds I found at Brannon and Chippewa. Listen, and imagine you are alone in the city, and poor– with only the leaky pipes as your companion.

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#570: 2016.10.16 [jim haynes]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by jim haynes, and features his own recordings of long, medium and shortwave radio signals. for more information on his work see http://www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes.

[time / recording / location / date]

00:00 – 01:20 / framework intro
01:20 – 03:03 / announcement
03:03 – 05:20 / ham radio communication / middle tennessee / summer 2003
05:20 – 06:40 / radio relay / northern california / november 2010
06:40 – 08:45 / 26950 kHz interference from intercom system / netherlands / may 2016
08:45 – 09:30 / 8008 kHz rtty transmission / northern california / april 2016 […]

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#568: 2016.10.02 [joaquí­n gutiérrez hadid]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in buenos aires, argentina by joaquí­n gutiérrez hadid. for more information on his work see: http://jgutierrezhadid.tumblr.com. notes from the producer:

Movable type is a site specific work about a famous Chinese restaurant in Buenos Aires that has closed its doors. The survey explores the imaginary related to immigration, otherness, private and public space.

All source material was recorded between 2012 and 2015 at Shi Yuan restaurant.

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#566: 2016.09.18 [ernst karel]

this is the second of two editions produced in cambridge, massachusettes in the united states by ernst karel. for more information on his work, see http://ek.klingt.org. notes from the producer:

Student compositions made for ‘Sonic Ethnography’, a course offered in conjunction with the Sensory Ethnography Lab in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.

Program two:

Making Machines, by Athina Papadopoulou

Sampled: The Boston Hip-Hop Scene, by John Tournas

The Freedom Trail, by Jake Alden-Falconer

for more information on the sensory ethnography lab, see http://sel.fas.harvard.edu.

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#564: 2016.09.04 [ernst karel]

this edition has been produced in cambridge, massachusettes in the united states by ernst karel. for more information on his work, see http://ek.klingt.org. notes from the producer:

Student compositions made for ‘Sonic Ethnography’, a course offered in conjunction with the Sensory Ethnography Lab in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.

Program one:

32-0 MECHAN, by José Rivera

Bliss, by Becca Voelcker

Stranger in Between: Pathways of a Graveyard, by Andrea Carrillo

for more information on the sensory ethnography lab, see http://sel.fas.harvard.edu.

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#562: 2016.07.24 [blanca rego]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in spain by blanca rego, aka _blank, and it titled around the world in 57 rains. for more information on her work, see: http://www.null66913.net. notes from the producer:

around the world in 57 rains is a trip around the world and the thousands of different sounds of the rain. the trip starts in barcelona, where i live, and it ends in the same place six months later. this travel goes through europe, africa, america, oceania, and asia gathering all kind of rains, from the subtle sound of a few scarce raindrops to the furious noise of the storm. the rumble of rain over earth, sand, ice, metal, concrete, gravel, wood, grass… rain is always different, but always the same. […]

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#560: 2016.07.10 [jason sloan]

this edition has been produced in baltimore, maryland in the united states by jason sloan. for more information on his work see http://www.jasonsloan.com. notes from the producer:

Harbor Study

Harbor Study examines three different planes of sound throughout the Baltimore Inner Harbor area and the micro sounds unique to each location. The recordings titled “Earth”and “Water” employ the use of granular sampling. This form of sound synthesis captures small samples or “grains” of a live audio signal and splits them into tiny one- to fifty-millisecond pieces and plays them back in real time. This process acts as a sort of microscope for the ears that focuses the listener’s attention to the minutiae comprising each unique sound space. […]

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#558: 2016.06.26 [slavek kwi]

this is the third of a multipart series produced by slavek kwi, aka artificial memory trace, entitled soundlife. this is chapter 3, TH RE_ALITY &”I” (THE TRIALITY SONG). for more information, see http://www.artificialmemorytrace.com. notes from the producer:

This is third instalment of another Soundorganism destined for Frameworkradio. These Soundscapes contains sequences triggered by my ordinary and extraordinary Soundenvironments, which includes also creative-process-fragments from my Soundays* and spoken or sang thoughts. […]

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#556: 2016.06.12 [dave phillips]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in switzerland by dave phillips. in his words:

57 minutes for framework by dave phillips, march 2016

recordings made november 2015 – january 2016 in
kgalagadi transfrontier national park, northern cape province,
marloth nature reserve, western cape province,
addo national park, eastern cape province,
oribi gorge nature reserve, kwazulu-natal province,
amatikulu nature reserve, kwazulu-natal province,
hluhluwe-imfolozi national park, kwazulu-natal province,
isimangaliso wetland park, kwazulu-natal, south africa,
mmabolela reserve (“sonic mmabolela”), limpopo province, south africa,
in varying topographies and climates, from hot and dry desert (kgalagadi) over hilly forests (marloth, oribi), semi-arid karoo (addo, mmabolela, hluhluwe) to humid forests and wetlands (isimngaliso), with day temperatures between 30° and 43°C.

play loud […]

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#554: 2016.05.29 [matthew swiezynski]

this edition, entitled urge along the pathways of the sky and the first of a 3-part series, has been produced in portland, oregon by matthew swiezynski, whose last name i actually know how to pronounce, as completely coincidentally we worked at a cinema together in cambridge, massachusetts in 1996. isn’t it a small world?

matthew, purveyor of the great invisible birds record label, and member of projects such as ingenting kollektiva and community of light, had this to say about this edition:

Urge Along the Pathways of the Sky; being a 57 minute sound experience, obsessively investigating Satyajit Ray’s film Pather Panchali (first in The Apu Trilogy from the year 1955) as source material, with a concentration on sound design and field recording elements from the film. Music by R. Shankar, sound recording by Bhupen Ghosh, Samir Ghosh and Durgacharan Mitra. Mixed by Matthew Swiezynski of the Ingenting Kollektiva. Includes rain, elements, birds, night sounds, trains, fuzz, drone, interrupted music, and speech fragments. Next installment will be the 2nd and 3rd in The Apu Trilogy.

for more information on matthew and his work, see:
http://invisiblebirds.org/fledgelings/swiezynski.html

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