Field Recording
All records with field recording · Solo field recording only
Winter am Bodensee
Winter visitors and migrant birds at Lake Constance (Untersee, Gnadensee and the Rhine Delta of Vorarlberg), recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1987 and 2003 and assembled into one winter soundscape.
Meistersinger
Skylark, nightingale, thrush nightingale, song thrush, blackbird and golden oriole, recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 1999 in Austria and Germany with Neumann dummy-head microphones.
König des Waldes - Hirschbrunft
The red deer rut on the Darss peninsula on the Baltic coast of Germany, recorded by Walter Tilgner in September 1994 with a Neumann KU 100 dummy head, from midday to dawn; booklet with sonograms. Bonus: a 1934 shellac by Ludwig Koch.
Blaukehlchen / Bluethroat / Luscinia Svenica - Bird of a Thousand Voices
The song of the red-spotted and the white-spotted bluethroat, a mimic of other birds, frogs and bells, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner; released in 1992 in Wergo's Natural Sound series.
Nachtigall
Nightingale song recorded by Walter Tilgner on the nights of 14, 21 and 29 May 1983 along the Reichenaudamm at Lake Constance: nightingales at night and at dawn with the waking chorus of other birds.
Waldkonzert
The four seasons in a mixed beech wood and the red deer rut in a mountain forest, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner, mostly with a Neumann binaural dummy head, and assembled without further sound processing.
Honey Wind
Soundwalk through a Santal village near Santiniketan, West Bengal, from morning to night, with songs, dances and daily life. Recorded in November 1994 by Peter Pannke and Andres Bosshard.
TopoSonic Spheres
Two-disc spatial sound composition by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs, made from microscopically processed animal voices and nature sounds: a stereo version and a four-channel DTS version, with RaumklangMilieu studies. Released 2004.
La Limite du Bruit
Five acousmatic works by John Young from 1995 to 2001, each grown from one intimate or environmental sound: hands, a single breath, wind across two microphones, a childhood swing and rain falling on leaves, windows and puddles.
Aparanthesi
Two versions of John Oswald's one-note composition from 2000-03, built entirely on the pitch A in its ten audible octaves, with a tuned prairie thunderstorm, tuned birds, a Disklavier piano and the cello of Joan Jeanrenaud. CD-R.
A House of Call - My Imaginary Notebook
Heiner Goebbels's cycle for large orchestra and archival voice recordings, in four parts and fifteen movements, played by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra under Vimbayi Kaziboni. Recorded September 2021 at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.
Hasretim - Journey to Anatolia
Marc Sinan's Hasretim for mixed ensemble and Anatolian field recordings: a live CD with the Dresdner Sinfoniker (Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, July 2011) and a DVD of the 2010 Hellerau premiere plus the field recordings made in Anatolia in 2010.
In/Out
Dine Doneff's 'soundscape theater for double bass and tapes': a live solo against pre-recorded music and field recordings from Lisbon, Istanbul, Timisoara and Zurich. Recorded 1 July 2016 at the Domagk Ateliers, Munich; neRED/2.
Rousilvo
Dine Doneff's Balkan-jazz folk opera on the abandoned village of Rousilvo (Xanthogeia) in northern Greece, mixing an ensemble, the Camea Quartet and archive voices. Recorded April 2004 at Agrotikon, Thessaloniki; neRED/1.
Discourses
Third ECM solo album by Norwegian pianist Jon Balke: sixteen short pieces for piano and processed soundscapes on the theme of dialogue and polarised speech. Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano (session of December 2019), produced by Manfred Eicher.
White
Duo album by guitarist Marc Sinan and clarinettist Oğuz Büyükberber (both also on electronics), built around 1916 field recordings of Armenian prisoners of war. Recorded October 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Warp
Second ECM solo album by Norwegian pianist Jon Balke: sixteen short piano pieces set in "sound images" (field recordings, electronics, voices) made with Audun Kleive. Recorded September 2014 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, mixed 2015 in Lugano; produced by Balke and Manfred Eicher.
Éclats
Pierre-Luc Lecours's Éclats (2014-20), four pieces each tied to a colour, where recordings of piano, cello, flute and percussion meet modular synthesis and noise, plus Impacts discrets, built partly from snow and ice on the roofs of Old Québec.
Assemblance(s)
Eight acousmatic works by James Andean from 2010 to 2018, mostly made in Helsinki: sounds from Luc Ferrari's archives, Maria Callas as Medea, a refrigerator in a Greek monastery, the inside of a piano and a garbled recording of John Cage.
Voyages
Two large multichannel works by Jonty Harrison from 2014 and 2015, built on 25 years of field recordings from train stations, glaciers, rainforests and markets, here in stereo Ambisonic UHJ encodings made by Joseph Anderson in Seattle.