This podcast series is aimed at helping us to connect to ourselves and to our earth by deep listening to natural soundscapes.
Based on empirical evidence as...
Hello and welcome back to Artist Talks! We have been longing for this return and are so happy to kick-start this new phase with David de la Haye, an award-winning ecological sound artist focusing on underwater aquatic environments.
An uncanny and down-to-earth fun conversation about listening to underwater sounds and the fascinating experience of recording them, creation of music with others from his field recordings and some necessary gear talk.
David is a musician - a bassist, composer and technician - which informs his work and collaborative processes with other musicians. He shares about how this processes go for some of his latest projects and the value of gathering people to make music.
Learn more about David and his work on his website, https://daviddelahaye.co.uk/,and consider supporting him on bandcamp: https://daviddelahaye.bandcamp.com/.
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Java’s Last Rainforest
Recorded in the misty montane rainforest of Gunung Halimun National Park, this recording features subtle birdsong and the sounds of a distant mountain river. This location is one of the last truly wild places on the island of Java and home to a host of unique wildlife.
Recorded by Marc Anderson at the Gunung Halimun National Park, Java, Indonesia
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A Secretive Night in a Canyon
A place dominated and overseen by large feathered creatures, acrobatic corvids and smaller virtuosos. Nearer the ground, the arched-formations of rock provide a refuge to others, from doves with their splashing wing beat sounds to mammals like red foxes, whose sounds are amplified and travel like an upwards spiral.
This amplification serves as a delicacy to my ears, bringing closer to my perception many tiny movements, many of which are hair-raising. Maybe it's merely the darkness operating its dominating power over us or perhaps it's this intriguing dance between near-silence and the appearance of nocturnal creatures - both animals and rocks, for the latter feel alive on their own.
The easily heard species in this recording are the tawny owl (Strix aluco) and the Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus).
This is a specially quiet recording, so an equally quiet listening is recommended.
Recorded by Melissa Pons in Spain.
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Gentle Wind at Dusk in the Savannah
The breeze bring some freshness in the evening during the hottest month of the year. This is the time when wildlife gets out of the hides to feed.
Recorded by Sounding Wild in Outamba Kilimi NP, Sierra Leone
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Taman Negara at Night
Taman Negara is a large area of protected rainforest on the heart of the Malaysian peninsula and home to an abundance of wildlife including tigers, leopards and elephants. This recording features the sounds of a myriad of insects calling from deep in the forest at night.
Recorded by Marc Anderson in Taman Negara, Malasya
This podcast series is aimed at helping us to connect to ourselves and to our earth by deep listening to natural soundscapes.
Based on empirical evidence as well as numerous recent studies from all over the world, listening to natural soundscapes (particularly mindful listening) has a great positive impact on our wellbeing, and potentially on our respect for nature. However, these soundscapes are increasingly scarce as we humans continue to destroy the natural ecosystems which produce them.
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