Listening

  • zimoun feat. helena gough

    zimoun feat. helena gough

    When the micro time scale is explored, the perception of the macro radically changes. When talking about texture, it’s also interesting to think about sequence, where certain structures function in different routes, coordinated under certain parameters in constant fluctuation. Zimoun is…

  • Complementary Disconnections, Interview with Slavek Kwi

    Complementary Disconnections, Interview with Slavek Kwi

    As he puts it himself, Ireland-based sound artist Slavek Kwi is “obsessed by freedom”: The freedom to accept or refuse traditions, the freedom to use or disregard cultural references, the freedom to establish his own ideologies only to question and…

  • shinkei & mise_en_scene – scytale

    shinkei & mise_en_scene – scytale

    Subtle compositions create a bridge between the listener and the listener, to unknown places of imaginative audition, like those present in “Scytale“, a fantastic work by Shinkei and mise_en_scene full of indescribable moments and movements. Sounds leading to silences, silences leading to…

  • Place and Sound

    Place and Sound

    Great audio documentary on sound art and field recording, with Francisco Lopez, Jacob Kirkegaard, Jodi Rose and Joseph Bertolozzi. Four unique composers and sound artists who compose using location sound recordings talk about where music begins; does it exist in nature or is…

  • Interview with The Sound Tracker

    Interview with The Sound Tracker

    Very nice interview with Gordon Hempton, published by Shaun Farley at Designing Sound. Gordon Hempton is one of the world’s foremost nature sound recordists. He’s won an Emmy, been the subject of a documentary, is an activist for acoustic ecology,…

  • Recording UK Ambiences

    Recording UK Ambiences

    A Sound Effect has published an article by sound designers Andrew Kirk and Richard Simpson on recording materials for their latest library. At RSAudio this year we have been spending a lot of time making a series of surround (5.0)…