Ecology

  • ‘El paisaje sonoro y la afinación del mundo’, R. Murray Schafer’s Soundscape Book now in Spanish

    ‘El paisaje sonoro y la afinación del mundo’, R. Murray Schafer’s Soundscape Book now in Spanish

    Good news for Spanish-speaking people: a translation of the well known Soundscape book by R. Murray Schafer is now available.

  • Water of Life

    Water of Life

    ‘Water of Life’ is an art-science collaboration between Tommy Perman – a visual and sound artist – and Rob St. John – an environmental writer and musician.  Funded by Creative Scotland as part of Imagining Natural Scotland, ‘Water of Life’ uses sound, visual art, photography and writing…

  • 330

    330

    Big Wad Excisions. COPPICE (Quakebasket Records 2013) Review by Caity Kerr Here are some lines from the promotional literature:- …have now blasted open the gates for them to rip through the status quo of musical law, and help redefine the future of…

  • 328

    328

    Interview with Sebastiane Hegarty part II by Jay Dea Lopez Sebastiane Hegarty is an artist, writer and lecturer. His creative practice is interdisciplinary and time-based, including:  sound, installation, photography, performance, drawing and text. His work is concerned with memory through an…

  • Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

    Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

    Nice article by Steven M. Miller at Trebuchet. When approaching audio field recording (often referred to as ‘phonography’) as a sound art practice, inevitable questions of aesthetics surface. The common attitude often expressed or implied runs something along the lines…

  • New Sound Devices 633 Field Mixer & Recorder

    New Sound Devices 633 Field Mixer & Recorder

    Sound Devices has just announced the newest addition to their family of mixers/recorders, the 633: The 633 is a compact, six-input mixer with integrated 10-track recorder featuring PowerSafe technology. It offers six analog inputs and records to SD and CompactFlash…