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Edu Comelles
CAMINO, Parte Primera
World Listening Project

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Camino, Parte Primera is the first part of a full length project based on recordings done along the Way of Saint James, a famous Middle Ages pilgrimage route along the northern regions of Spain. The whole route runs over 740 km and it takes approximately one month to complete it by walking. On this first instalment we walked for 6 days between the traditional beginning of the pilgrimage at Roncesvalles on the Navarre Pyrenees until Logroño the capital of the La Rioja Region. This route goes across Navarre and lengths 137 km. This first walk was made during Easter time, while in many towns and villages celebrations of the Death of Christ take place every year.

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Mike & Nathan
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The Empty Space
Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology
World Listening Project

http://www.wanderingear.com/we017.html

the empty space, destitute of activity,
once inhabited, teeming with life, leaving traces
in the earth, on their walls, in the air
abandoned or never inhabited
a sonic odor, once removed
remains etched in the subconscious

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Mike & Nathan
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Luís Antero
FACTORY MUSIC

http://www.wanderingear.com/wel002.html

Tales for tapes is an event dedicated to the tape manipulation.

Final Cut's set consisted of his own processed field recordings and ambient voices, all created for the concert utilizing dictaphones and a 4 track tape recorder.

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Mike & Nathan
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Luís Antero
FACTORY MUSIC

http://www.wanderingear.com/we016.html

FACTORY MUSIC intends to mirror the life of the city of factory noise in Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra, through recordings made inside and outside of some industrial units (small and medium industry). With this sound piece, attention of the listener is drawn to certain musicality present in each of the factories, through its various unique and dynamic sounds.

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Mike & Nathan
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Anton Mobin
LONDON - a field memory

http://www.wanderingear.com/we015.html

Using a Nagra ARES M II
All field recordings captured in LONDON from March 2nd till 6th, 2009
Mixed at the Maïzing Studio (Paris) during Spring 2010 by Anton Mobin

Collage artwork by Anton Mobin

“When a man is tired of London, he's tired of Life; for there is in London all that Life can afford.”
S. Johnson

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Mike & Nathan
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John Kannenberg
Oculus

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Oculus investigates the acoustic properties of visual art display mechanisms, combining field recordings and synthesized sound.  Can visual information be described by the sound of its display? Are these sounds and their corresponding images mutually exclusive, or symbiotic? What happens when the background is separated from the foreground - does it merely leave a gaping hole, or create a new object with its own relationships and contexts to explore?

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Mike & Nathan
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1HOME
3Nocturns

http://www.wanderingear.com/we013.html

Field recordings from:

- Maçanet de Cabrenys (Spain)
- Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain)
- Fes, Chefchouen, Ouezanne and Asilan (Morocco)
- Verona (Italy)

All recordings were taken during night hours.

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Mike & Nathan
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the Beige Channel
Soundwalk on Shamian Island

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A 12 minute Soundwalk along "Shamian Main Street" (Shamian Dajie), on Shamian Island, in the city of Guangzhou, China, on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, during the late afternoon...

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Mike & Nathan
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Luís Antero
Rural Sound Narratives (Field Recordings From Portugal, 2009)

http://www.wanderingear.com/we011.html

Rural Sound Narratives features recordings made throughout central Portugal between July and September of 2009. It’s a work of pure phonography (using a Zoom H4 digital recorder), revealing sonically some aspects of this region's natural and human life.

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Mike & Nathan
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Mike Hallenbeck - Just Before Diwali - Field Recordings from North India

http://www.wanderingear.com/we010.html

India is a wondrous cacophony of cultures, faiths, languages, politics, and -- not surpisingly -- sounds. I recently had the chance to find this out for myself. A marriage gave me new relatives in the north of India, so I had the chance to meet my new family and travel a bit, recording gear in tow...

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Mike & Nathan
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Scott Sherk - Icelandic Air

http://www.wanderingear.com/we009.html

Scott Sherk spent a month collecting sounds in and around Reykjavik, Iceland as part of a SIMS residency. Iceland’s dramatic landscape of severe, gray extremes affects the sounds that resonate in the crystal-clear air. The twelve recordings that comprise the suite “icelandic air” attempt to capture the various spaces and sonic environments of Iceland from the crunch of volcanic beach pebbles to the windblown fields of sheep to the cement interior of a cathedral.

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Mike & Nathan
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Ernst Karel - Outside Laboratories at Night

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Live performance at AS220, Providence RI, 26 May 2007, using location recordings made outside research laboratory buildings at night on the campus of Harvard University, and modular analog electronics.

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Mike & Nathan
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Ascsoms - Realms

http://www.wanderingear.com/we008.html

London based audio artist Adam J Wimbush primarily works with processed field recordings, electronics and acoustic elements. His compositions are assembled from the results of numerous improvised and manipulated sonic experiments. From these, detailed extracts are chosen, and then the individual segments undergo further modification, before being edited together into a single aural environment.

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Mike & Nathan
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Lance Olsen - Edges: An Audio Portrait

http://www.wanderingear.com/we007.html

The raw tracks for this work were gathered over a few nights around the Nanaimo Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  The work is designed for careful listening through headphones and is deliberately low key.

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Mike & Nathan
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http://www.wanderingear.com/wer006.html

 
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C.fieldechoes - Subterranean Salt Echoes

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The soundmark of this field recording is the natural reverb of crowds situated deep underground in the Salina Praid salt mine.  'Salina Praid' is located in the Transylvania/Harghita countryside of Romania."  The sound has a unique imprint especially because of the salt all over, the size and the irregularities of the walls left after the excavation processes.

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Mike & Nathan
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Melt : Minnesota Remixed

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In 2006, Wandering Ear debuted with the compilation "Thaw: Field Recordings from Minnesota". Now, a host of audio artists from around the world have used these recordings as source material for remixes, bending and folding the sounds to their own ends. Ducks, geese, lakes, waterfalls, boats, helicopters, and answering machine messages are spun into new and unexpected dimensions.


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Mike & Nathan
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we004 - Lori Beckstead & Dave Rose - Winanga-li: Australian Soundscapes

http://www.wanderingear.com/we004.html

The name of the work is an Aboriginal word from the Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay language of northern New South Wales meaning “to hear, to listen, to know, to remember”.  These soundscapes, recorded in Australia, were captured using binaural microphones. By placing a microphone close to each ear, binaural recordings attempt to capture sound just the way you would hear it if you had been there.

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Mike & Nathan
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we003 - Michael Palace / Horchata - Tapajos National Forest

http://www.wanderingear.com/we003.html

Recorded in the Brazilian Tapajos National Forest, during his fallen necrmass studies, Michael Palace brings back a wonderful recording!

"In this recording I set up the mini disc recorder and microphone and left it to record while I went to do measurements. In the beginning you can hear me set up the microphone and walk into the forest with my field guide Fransico, who lived near the research site and worked with me for a number of years. The area that we recorded was near a road used by researchers and at one point you can hear a truck go by. At the end you can hear me come out of the woods and get picked up by the other researchers. Also of note are the cicadas and their cycling of calls, a branch fall, and some animal that went up and curiously examined the recording equipment."

Download this release and read more about Michael's journey into the Amazon jungle here!

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Mike & Nathan
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we002 - Matthew Sansom - Sacralizing Space: location recordings from the Blue Mosque

http://www.wanderingear.com/we002.html

"Sacralizing Space" is presented in two parts. The first recording was made at dawn outside Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. The second is of the dawn prayer itself from inside the mosque.

Sansom says of this work: "For some time I have been documenting through audio recording the sounds and spaces of a number of places in the Islamic world. My European ears have become fascinated with what they have been hearing. On one level this is certainly to do with the luxurious spatial physicality of the sounds as they resonate within and across the particular architectural forms and cityscapes of these locations. On another level there is the symbolism and meaning that can be understood from the spiritual tradition that these soundscapes exist within."

Enjoy!

Mike & Nathan
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