Sleep Birmingham Sleep has been selected for SoundFjord’s Alternating Current: Sound Art Now Sonic Art Programme at The Dragonfly Festival, Sweden.
The piece was composed during the Birmingham Sound Matter project, organised by modulate and Francisco Lopez. A CD of all the works composed during the project is available on audiobulb records.
Dragonfly Festival runs 20-22 August.
watersong was included in stream 24 of Rhizoradio on 18th July as part of World Listening Day.
Rhizoradio is run by Peter O’Doherty. More details, including a full track list, at www.rhizoradio.net
Toronto based publishing house and record label Standard Form has release states as part of their 3″ CDR Rural Routes series.
states is a series of field recordings made in Shetland during December 2006, using contact microphones. More details at www.standardform.org
I’ll be on resonancefm on Tuesday at 2pm with a programme of sounds from Georgia and Armenia. Go to frameworkradio.net for details of other broadcasting times and for the podcast.
Been busy this month: I’ve done another edition of framework afield which broadcasts in London on resonancefm on 27 April at 2pm. After that it’s on:
- wednesday, 12am, thessaloniki, gr on cooradio
- wednesday, 3am, lisbon, pt on radio zero
- thursday, 7pm, lisbon, pt on radio zero
- friday, 1am, brussels, be on radio campus 92.1fm
- saturday, 5pm, south devon, uk on soundartradio 102.5fm
If you’re not in any of those places it’s available as a podcast from frameworkradio.net
The recordings are all from a trip to Georgia and Armenia in the summer of 2009, a blog of which is here
Canadian record label and small press Standard Form have a new blog. states is the third 3″ CDr in their Rural Routes series.
There are some fabulous recordings of ice sheets over at silent listening.
BEAST presents
BEAST plus
Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 January 2010
in the George Cadbury Hall,
University of Birmingham Selly Oak Campus, Bristol Road, Birmingham B29 6LG
Includes performances by Martin Clarke, James Carpenter, Pei-Yu Shei and others.
More details at: www.beastmusic.co.uk
framework, the radio programme dedicated to field recording and phonography aired its 250th episode last year. To celebrate, a two part double CD (i.e. four CDs) compilation has been produced in order to raise money so that it can continue. Listeners who donate €25 or more receive one double CD, €40 or more gets you the set.
“they come in hand-cut, hand-folded, hand-silkscreened opaque origami sleeves, with inlay cards printed on local 100% recycled estonian-made paper from the rapina village paper factory, about 20km from me here in mooste. the sounds are slow-burnt onto the highest quality taiyo yuden cdrs, and hand-stamped with custom made rubber stamps. they sound and look great, if i do say so myself. all in all, my novice over-enthusiasm means these are more effort that i would probably ever be willing to make for a release again, so snap them up while you can!”
My contribution to the compilation is a recording from Wszerzecz, in Poland from May 2009.