Episodes
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
The Birdsong Project
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
On September 7, NPR dropped an episode of All Songs Considered about an enormous new compilation album called "For The Birds: The Birdsong Project." It's a massive collection of original songs and poems about birds and inspired by birdsong. Artists range from Alice Coltrane, Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson, and The Flaming Lips to Sam Prekop, Devendra Banhart, Yo Yo Ma, and of course Andrew Bird & Jeff Tweedy.
Here's a link to the episode - https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121237661/this-episode-is-for-the-birds
As I listened to the collection for a few days at work, my ambient brain thought of using some of the instrumental tracks in a mix. So for this mix all the tracks come from The Birdsong Project. Most of the cuts have worked bird sounds in with the music.
Unfortunately this collection is not available on Bandcamp. So it's very expensive to buy the full compilation, with the vinyl box set selling for $400 and the mp3 downloads going for $38 per volume. So I would suggest listening to the collection on Spotify which you can find here - https://www.audubon.org/news/the-birdsong-project-box-set
Here's one more link to check out - https://www.thebirdsongproject.com/
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Shearwater - Kwitaro Backbone
- 05:33 Sam Prekop - Stations Parallel
- 10:12 Aska Matsumiya - Tori No Uta
- 12:57 Paul Cantelon - Hymn for Four Birds
- 18:41 Makaya McCraven - For The Birds
- 21:27 Elliot Bergman - Crow Dialectic
- 25:27 Andrew Bird - Rare Birds
- 32:22 Joachim Cooder - Carolina Turtledove
- 34:55 Carla dal Forno - Morning Maggie
- 37:04 Devendra Banhart - Ka
- 40:20 Dexter Story - Wefoch(Birds)
- 43:40 Stuart Bogie - Far Rockaway
- 49:11 Woodkid - Altamira Oriole
- 51:57 Marcelo Zarvos - Nightbird
- 55:39 Cosmo Sheldrake - Evening Chorus(Live in the Bluebell Woods)
- 60:27 end
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
4th World Excursions - Slow Water
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
I love the strange exotic sounds of artists such as Jon Hassell, Andrew Pekler, and William Selman. Their music can take you on an audio journey to imaginary places halfway around the globe. My first 4th World Excursion mix was 4 years ago and I've only done one follow up, which is weird considering how much I enjoy this style.
Here are the first two in this series:
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/folding-water-fourth-world-excursions/
https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/strange-beauty-4th-world-excursions-vol-2/
And here is the new follow up - 4th World Excursions - Slow Water.
This new mix follows a similar pattern and feel as the other two - using a combination of field recordings and the sounds of bells, drums, vibraphone, various mallet instruments, the vibe creates a feeling of floating in a small wooden boat in a lagoon somewhere in Indonesia. As the waves lap against the boat you can hear distant drums, crickets, jungle birds, frogs, and odd instruments lulling you to sleep. Of course there are electronic elements to keep things interesting.
Here links to all the albums used in this mix in the order in which they appear:
- https://summerrecreationcamp.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-rhythm
- https://vagueimaginaires.bandcamp.com/album/l-le-dor
- https://riteshindi.bandcamp.com/album/animas-k
- https://ulyssa.bandcamp.com/album/rio-nilo-66
- https://huinalidub.bandcamp.com/album/early-horizons-hnl008
- https://graphicalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-front-property
- https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/oceans-of-milk-and-treacle
- https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/palimpsests
- https://williamselman.bandcamp.com/album/naming-before-names
- https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/teygja-part-b
- https://paulineannastrom.bandcamp.com/album/angel-tears-in-sunlight
- https://hawsepiper.bandcamp.com/album/red-knot-returns
- https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands
- https://www.sargasso.com/product/felipe-otondo-mombasa/
- https://real-soon.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-in-the-east
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Jason Kolàr - Bells (Liquid Rhythm 2022)
- 04:00 Vague Imaginaries - Montagnes Flottantes (L'île D'or 2020)
- 07:50 Jarguna - Shuar Tales (Animas-k 2021)
- 10:20 Thunder & FX
- 11:40 Ethan Braun & Sam Gendel - 1/2 Sculpture (Rio Nilo 66 2021)
- 14:40 David de la Haye - The Pond Listener (With Ears Underwater 2022)
- 15:20 David de la Haye - March Towards the Light (With Ears Underwater 2022)
- 16:05 Inhmost - Waters Edge (Early Horizons 2021)
- 20:10 Mark Templeton - Channel Shifting (Ocean Front Property 2020)
- 22:00 Mike Cooper - Towards Great Piles Of Masonry (Oceans Of Milk & Treacle 2022)
- 23:45 Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Baden-Baden (Palimpsests 2021)
- 26:12 Jason Kolàr - Magic Random Exotism (Liquid Rhythm 2022)
- 29:15 Vague Imaginaries - Mais (L'île D'or 2020)
- 34:40 William Selman - Realgar Bay (Naming Before Names 2020)
- 40:18 Maps and Diagrams - One Day (Teygja Part B 2021)
- 42:35 Pauline Anna Strom - Tropical Rainforest (Angel Tears in Sunlight 2021)
- 47:25 Hawsepiper - Air Stones (Red Knot Returns 2021)
- 51:15 Andrew Pekler - Tuanahe (Sounds From Phantom Islands 2019)
- 55:15 Felipe Otondo – Mombasa (Mombasa 2022)
- 57:25 Loren Nerell & Mark Seelig - Kayon (Tree of Life 2014)
- 58:45 Ultramarine - Signals Into Space (The Sun in the East 2020)
- 65:00 end
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Folding Water - Fourth World Excursions
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
A lost, forgotten bell sings
beyond the water
This is a set of music that adhere's to Jon Hassell's idea of a musical aesthetic that is "a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques."
You'll find some drums, bells, gamelan, vibraphone and other mallet instruments as well as a healthy dose of field recordings. Hopefully the mix will make you feel like you're floating in a small, wooden boat anchored in an Indonesian bay.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Third Coast Percussion - Paddle to the Sea - Sanctuary
- 03:15 Andrew Pekler - Bororo
- 04:33 Jan Schulte - Klang Fangt An
- 06:05 William Selman - Thick Description
- 09:15 Jon Hassell - Empire I
- 10:25 Jon Hassell - Malay
- 13:00 Vieo Abiungo - Barges Bellow Their Foul Air(Sven Kacirek remix)
- 16:20 Abby Lee Tee - Riverside Burrows Pt. 2
- 18:25 Arp - Folding Water
- 22:10 O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover
- 25:10 Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (Chopped and Screwed)
- 27:30 William Selman - The Island Before the Internet
- 31:35 Laraaji - Enthusiasm
- 33:45 Abby Lee Tee - Riverside Burrows Pt. 1
- 34:30 David Edren - Baulungan
- 36:25 Third Coast Percussion - Paddle to the Sea - The Lighthouse and Cabin
- 38:00 DR - IV
- 39:10 Michael Emenau - Waterphone
- 44:10 Jon Hassell - Miracle Steps
- 47:45 Andrew Pekler - Mirror Structures(Mirrored)
- 50:00 David Cunningham - Blue River
- 53:05 Nao Otsuka - Clock Chimes
- 56:15 Abby Lee Tee - Riverside Burrows Pt. 2
- 58:52 end
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
a leaf on the wind - field recordings & ambience 2013
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
Sunday Jun 16, 2013
Thursday May 31, 2012
on the behavior of radio waves
Thursday May 31, 2012
Thursday May 31, 2012
- 00:00 The Humble Bee - Titles
- 00:46 William Basinski - Particle Showers
- 02:40 BSKSA Saudia Arabia 11785 kHz, 8_14_10 (1610UTC)
- 04:10 Andrew Chalk - Violin by Night
- 07:00 Andrew Pekler - Nocturne 3
- 09:00 Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - Main Jungle
- 10:50 The Caretaker - The Quilter Standard
- 11:55 Markus Mehr - Komo
- 13:50 Ran Slavin - Wayward Initial
- 14:24 Call to Prayer at Dawn, Sultanahmet Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
- playing under the Ran Slavin cut
- 16:48 Depatterning - Instow, SK. Bone Creek No. 108
- 18:50 Pawn - untitled(from Islet)
- 24:05 Maps and Diagrams - Looks Simple Enough
- 26:23 unknown time & frequency (2002)
- 27:10 The Humble Bee - The Collecting Plate
- 28:00 WEWN:Radio Catolica Mundial 5810kHz
- 28:40 Mokira - Harold Dubb
- 33:05 Radio Bulgaria 5800kHz
- 34:04 Stephan Mathieu - Gabriel
- 37:55 Gultskra Artikler - Vsegda Krasni Cvetok
- 39:30 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Reverso
- 45:15 Kane Ikin - short wave fade
- 47:12 Quinn Walker - The Quiet Passage
- 50:40 Melton - Northern Fields
- 53:05 I've Lost - A Study in Departure
- 54:27 end
Saturday Dec 04, 2010
in foreign lands
Saturday Dec 04, 2010
Saturday Dec 04, 2010
I have always loved the sound of Djivan Gasparyan's music. He plays the duduk, a double reed instrument related to the oboe. It's got a great melancholy, other-worldy feel to it. I took the "other-wordly" idea to make a mix of music that is vaguely foreign sounding, at least foreign to my American ears. The music is Middle Eastern, Asian, African, Eastern European and Indian. I go back to a familiar source for some of the sounds, the Shortwave Music blog of Myke Weiskopf. Whether it's the night call to prayer in Bulgaria or Qur’an recitation from BSKSA Saudi Arabia, Myke has great recordings that everyone should take the time to investigate. The times in the tracklist are rough. Sometimes there are two or three tracks playing at once & not all are listed in the tracklist. I also messed with a few tracks, adding stretched audio as a backing track or adding reverb. At various times haunting, beautiful, calming or hypnotic, the music in this mix will hopefully stir your imagination. T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Djivan Gasparyan - You have to come back to me
- 02:22 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Night Song
- 06:20 Hildegard Westerkamp - Gently Penetrating
- 07:00 Night call to prayer in Draginovo, Bulgaria
- 09:20 Peter Nooten & Michael Brook - Suddenly II
- 10:25 Maya Beiser - I was there
- 15:00 harmonic fx
- 15:50 Gamelan Madu Sari - thinly roundly
- 18:15 Ayub Ogada - Kothbiro
- 22:00 Jon Hassell - Frontiera
- 22:30 Hildegard Westerkamp - Into the labyrinth
- 22:55 Geir Jenssen - Camp 2, world music on the radio
- 23:30 Gamelan Madu Sari - Dreams he is a ball of fire or a hummingbird
- 26:30 Peter Gabriel - Wall of Breath
- 28:15 Galata Mevlevi - Nay Taksim
- 29:40 Hildegard Westerkamp - Soundscape of cities, Delhi
- 30:10 Forrest Fang - Garuda
- 31:15 Jon Hassell - Tramonto
- 33:00 Qur’an recitation from BSKSA Saudi Arabia
- 34:20 Lamp of the Universe - Heru, part 1
- 36:55 U Srinivas & Michael Brook - Think
- 41:30 Anouar Brahem - L'oiseau
- 45:45 Djivan Gasparyan - dle vaman
- 49:30 Peter Gabriel - A sense of home
- 51:14 end
Saturday May 15, 2010
thru the field
Saturday May 15, 2010
Saturday May 15, 2010
I recently was given a box of old sound effects records like the one in the picture. These albums brought back a lot of memories. As a kid I would go to the public library down the street and borrow their sound effects records. I guess that was an early sign that I'd end up with music tastes that were a bit different.
This new mix is perfect for my new vinyl sound effects collection, unfortunately I finished the mix before I got the records. So I'll have to save them for the next installment in the field mixes.
For this mix, the 3rd in the field music mixes, I tried to use more natural sound and less music. There are definitely musical elements here, thanks to Spheruleus, Nigel Samways and others. I tried to pick field sounds that weren't too obtrusive. There are many sounds that are interesting to listen to, but don't work as ambient "music". After a nice quiet section of wind blowing through bamboo, hearing fireworks exploding wouldn't work for me.
I'd like to bring attention to to releases used in this mix. They both come from a new netlabel, Audio Gourmet. "Rust" by Spheruleus & "Momentary" by Darren Harper are the first two releases. They are excellent recordings & they are free so check them out. Each one has a cut in the new field mix.
The tracklist is a bit vague, as the times are even more nebulous than normal. I hope you enjoy this latest field mix.
Download (right click/save as) : 82mb, 60min thru the field
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Chihei Hatakeyama - Distant Sound of a Bustle
- 04:00 Loren Nerell - Wind Through Bamboo Forest
- 06:00 The Black Dog - M1
- 08:30 Jason Kahn - Transit
- 10:00 Framework podcast 11-5-09 excerpt
- 13:30 Seattle Phonographers Union - Hollow Earth Radio(excerpt)
- 15:30 Nigel Samways - City of Gas Street Lamps
- 19:00 Spheruleus - it sits on a shelf inside my skull
- 25:00 Mister Vapor - Rain 1
- 31:00 Chihei Hatakeyama - Dance of the Sea
- 33:00 Chris Watson - Vatnajokull
- 35:00 Quiet American - Khulna Station
- 37:00 Thomas Koner - 45_26n, 12_20e (hour three)
- 40:00 Steve Bradley - SO2 Emissions
- 41:30 Cecile Le Prado - Passages
- 43:30 Spheruleus - Rusting
- 47:30 Richard Chartier - Fields for Recording (excerpt)
- 52:00 Chris Watson - Bucaneve
- 53:00 Spheruleus - A Hindered View
- 55:30 Darren Harper - Field & Glass
- 60:00 end
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010
flicker & fade
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010
Tuesday Apr 13, 2010
This is the third mix I’ve done with a shortwave radio theme. Many of the tunes have noise & static already built in. Sometimes radio washes have been added. As with past shortwave mixes, the actual shortwave recordings come courtesy of Myke Dodge Weiskopf. He runs a great site dedicated to shortwave music. This mix was originally posted on MixCloud by folks at Fluid Radio. I am honored that Fluid Radio posted one of my mixes among their growing list of great music. I'm posting here to allow direct download. That's one feature I wish MixCloud had, the option of downloading the mixes. It's a great community over at MixCloud that would be even better with downloads. I hope you enjoy vol. 3 in the shortwave series. T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Myke Weiskopf - Test Transmission
- 00:40 Tim Hecker - Arctic Loner's Rock
- 03:50 All India Radio
- 05:20 Andrey Dergatchev - Culmination
- 07:45 Karlheinz Stockhausen - realization 6 (from spiral)
- 08:50 Tu M' - monochrome 3
- 14:20 Library Tapes - The Fragile Tide
- 16:30 Radio Slovakia Int'l
- 17:20 36 - Juliet
- 19:20 Maps & Diagrams - Mold
- 23:45 Marihiko Hara - modena
- 26:05 WNOH - Runyon's Gospel Descent
- 27:40 Ous Mal - Viime Talvi
- 29:40 Myke Weiskopf - Into the Telemetry Haze
- 30:50 Brian Grainger - untitled
- 34:10 Helios - Vargtimme
- 37:30 random noise fx
- 38:20 36 - intercept
- 39:00 BNR Radio Bulgaria
- 40:30 Drowning the Virgin Silence - We Twist the Sun & Sea
- 44:20 Krzysztof Orluk - over the sky (bright sphere)
- 46:30 Motion - dispersal patterns
- 48:00 atom - wellen and felder II
- 49:10 Xela - An Abandoned Robot
- 51:45 Eluvium - As I Drift Off
- 54:30 end
Tuesday Feb 17, 2009
in_transit - an ambient field mix
Tuesday Feb 17, 2009
Tuesday Feb 17, 2009
I have been wanting to do another field mix almost since the moment I finished the last one. So here it is, a new mix entitled "in_transit". I like field recordings but not as much nature recordings. I'm not wild about birds chirping & water flowing. I like mechanical sounds or crowd noise or as you'll hear in this mix, trains. I used train sounds in the last mix & they play a prominent role here too. I had planned on doing more of my own field recording but I just never seemed to find the time. I did manage to sneak two of my recordings in, one occurs at about 8:50 in the mix. It's a recording of the humming sound of telephone pole at the end of my driveway. The pole hums when it gets windy, so I just went out stuck the mic right up to the pole & froze my arse off. I then fattened up the sound a bit. The other recording is of my daughter playing piano, but you'd never guess that's what you're hearing. It happens at about the 19:10 mark. I had her play about 40 seconds of chopin or schubert. Then I used a simple little program to stretch that 40 seconds into 12 minutes & 40 seconds. The result sounds nothing like classical piano. You can find the program here...Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch. Give it a try. Works great on piano & classical music. It makes the human voice sound very creepy. Most of the other sound used in the mix are a combination of field recordings from all over the web, music & music that already has field recordings built in, like the last cut by RF. There is new music from sleepy town manufacture & unit 21, elegi, Loren Chasse & terje isungset. Two tracks used in the mix are from a cd that I got from Rick over at Hydrogen Cafe. Years ago he burned some ambient background sounds from Blade Runner. At the 6:20 mark we get ambience from the Tyrell Coporation & at about 23:50 we hear sounds from Blade Runner Chinatown. I'll definitely be using more of these in future field mixes. Well I guess that's enough for now. I'm not making a tracklist as the cuts are playing all over each other, many times 2 or 3 at the same time. If you are curious about certain sounds or tracks just email or comment with the time in question & I'll do my best to get info back to you. Enjoy the trip!
Friday Jun 06, 2008
a ghost in the phase
Friday Jun 06, 2008
Friday Jun 06, 2008
I was having a tough time coming up with an idea for a new mix. The shortwave mix, a drift on the signal, is one of my favorite mixes so I decided to do a sequel.
And thus, through ionospheric transit, comes...a ghost in the phase. The formula is pretty much the same as before, a nice mixture of real shortwave radio recordings & ambient music with shortwave elements. Most of the shortwave stuff comes from the Shortwavemusic blog. That's the same source I used for the last shortwave mix. It's run by Myke Weiskopf. Here are a couple of his other sites... Myke Weiskopf & Myke's Live Journal
Lots of cool sounds at all three sites.
After the last shortwave mix a listener said it reminded him of Tetsu Inoue's World Receiver. How could I have forgotten that disc?! This time I made sure to include it. It's such a fantastic recording. You can buy it from Infraction records . Another excellent release that made it into the mix is the new one from Steven Mathieu called Radioland. Check it out.
The Entia Non & krill.minima & Unproduct cuts are all available for free download.
The times in this tracklist are just approximations. Sometimes there are several cuts playing at once, things fading in & out, etc.
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 - Pulse Wave FX & JBO Tokyo Radio
- 00:16 - Entia Non - Cultural Plagiarism
- 01:28 - Fennesz - A Year in a Minute
- 04:33 - Myke Weiskopf - Shortwave Condensation
- 05:55 - Djivan - dle yaman
- 06:56 - Cairo Radio
- 07:45 - Punkt - Speechless
- 08:24 - Cairo Radio
- 09:13 - Rod Modell - Aloeswood
- 12:38 - Tetsu Inoue - Elevator Drops
- 19:05 - Steven Mathieu - Aufder Gasse
- 22:45 - Fennesz & Sakamoto - Aware
- 26:37 - Radio RASD
- 26:54 - My Fun - Signal Drift
- 29:06 - Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau - Aberdeen
- 34:11 - Chris Bissonnette - Traveling Light
- 40:00 - WEWN
- 40:46 - Post-Soviet Melancholia Pt. V: "Мой Рок и Ролл" via Russian International Radio
- 42:40 - krill.minima - Projektor
- 45:34 - Myke Weiskopf - The Grotesque
- 46:23 - Unproduct - Radio Canvas 3
- 46:52 - numbers
- 47:40 - pulse transmission
- 50:30 - Rameses III - Origins IV May 25, 2007
- 53:20 - Steven Mathieu - Radioland
- 02:30 - Pulse Wave FX