last years 5 favourite sounds of 2008 on the 'in place' blog was really interesting & fun so here goes again !
please send me a list of the 5 favourite sounds that you have heard during 2010 for inclusion on the blog:
it's simple....choose five favourite sounds heard in 2009 - they can be ones you've gathered yourself, heard in situ only (natural, man made, at concerts etc) or on recordings you have made or aquired....submitted lists will be added to the post upon reciept by email to this address: tempjez@hotmail.com
last years choices can be viewed here
please send me a list of the 5 favourite sounds that you have heard during 2010 for inclusion on the blog:
it's simple....choose five favourite sounds heard in 2009 - they can be ones you've gathered yourself, heard in situ only (natural, man made, at concerts etc) or on recordings you have made or aquired....submitted lists will be added to the post upon reciept by email to this address: tempjez@hotmail.com
last years choices can be viewed here
have fun & I look forward to reading your choices ! & of course have a nice xmas & new year !
submitted by Jez riley French:
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1) my daughter laughing, singing & making silly noises (UK & Venice)
2) Thornwick Bay rock pool inc. the sounds of beadlet anemones & limpets (East Yorkshire)
3) my fingers rubbing together inside an old oil storage tank (Estonia)
4) salt on paper (UK, Estonia, Austria, Czech republic, Belgium)
5) Teazel plant (Norfolk)
& because this blog is my party & i'll list if I want to ! here are some runners up for me:
6) flask (Belgium)
7) metal street railings (Belgium)
8) East stairs (West Yorkshire)
9) Empty factory with birds gathering (Estonia)
10) & the sounds of several churches & bookstores across Europe
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submitted by Pheobe Law (wonderful daughter & artist):
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1) the sound of eating home made marshmallows
2) various self made silly noises & sounds
3) hearing the sounds that my Dad finds
4) the sea at Venice Lido
5) the sound of ice skates across the ice
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submitted by Daniel Jones (improvising musician, UK):
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1) There is but one sound that has eclipsed all others for me this year... hearing our baby's heartbeat for the first time on Wednesday 16 December during our second midwife's appointment was not only stunning, heartwarming and relieving it also reduced me to a blubbering idiot.
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submitted by Natalia Borrissova (artist, Germany):
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1-5) hi jez, u got better? that sounds nice too (5 times + hi-hik)
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submitted by Patrick Farmer (improviser/UK):
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1) The overflowing Elan Valley dam.
2) The quiet over the Kerry Forest at dusk
3) The acoustic confusion of a working quarry battling into the hillbeneath me at Rodneys Pillar
4) The sounds that I can't hear: Land Snails and derelict buildings that I can't access.
5) Photosynthesising Pondweed at the Severn Farms Pond.
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submitted by Ana Jasmina Oseban (writer & translator, Austria):
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1) thousands of people singing "Seeeeeeelma, Seeeeelma" on the concert of Bijelo Dugme (me being one of them) (Celje, Slovenia)
2) the sound of tram in the evening on a nearby tram station (Graz, Austria)
3) people laughing on the street that my windows are facing (Graz)
4) a kitten mewing in the street (Graz)
5) the lapping of the waves of the Mura River around midnight (Graz)
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submitted by Anastasia Vronski (musician, artist, Russia):
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1) Light snoring of my grand mother letting me know she's living .
2) I had heard many woodpickers already but this one was joyful almost mad calling kuy kuy very loud and picking on the tree and then jumping on the floor and making holes in the snow, and on the tree again ; Very excited and making more noise.
3) The Letterist Choir at the beginning of Isidor Isou's movie of Venom and Eternity.
4) The sounds of the quite noisy Paris Metro .I also heard a very good ''Bob Dylan'' and tsigani there .
5) A very young and bad guitarist practising '' Cocaine'' on the steps of Opera and trying to sound old and missing the same section again and again.
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submitted by Goh Lee Kwang (sound artist, Malaysia):
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can only think of 4 sounds:
1) revenant (Yannick Dauby Olivier Feraud John Grzinich Hitoshi Kojo Patrick McGinley)
2) topolò CD - the Ang Mo Faux (Ty Constant, Peter Edwards, Steven M. Miller) concert in Kuala Lumpur.
3) Lasse-Marc Riek's demo (to be release on Herbal 2010)
4) Harbour - Jason Kahn - Vanishing Point CD
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submitted by Diane Hope (field recordist / USA):
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1) 'Tune' played by hailstones hitting the iron railings as a huge winter storm hit the seafront on Morecambe promenade in the ‘cold snap’ just before Christmas
2) Voice of Richard Isman, caretaker at the ghost town of Fairbank, on the San Pedro River in Southern Arizona – a cross between Clint Eastwood in ‘Pale Rider’ and Deputy Dawg! (as heard on R3’s ‘Between the Ears’ Ghost Town in June)
3) Stallion whinnying and pawing the ground at the Babbitt Annual Colt Sale near Flagstaff Arizona, July
4) Old schoolhouse bell at the Arizona Historical Society’s Pioneer Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona
5) Incredibly controlled, sustained sliding high note hit by Inna Dukach singing the role of ‘Musetta’ in the Royal Opera House’s December production of ‘La Boheme’
2) Voice of Richard Isman, caretaker at the ghost town of Fairbank, on the San Pedro River in Southern Arizona – a cross between Clint Eastwood in ‘Pale Rider’ and Deputy Dawg! (as heard on R3’s ‘Between the Ears’ Ghost Town in June)
3) Stallion whinnying and pawing the ground at the Babbitt Annual Colt Sale near Flagstaff Arizona, July
4) Old schoolhouse bell at the Arizona Historical Society’s Pioneer Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona
5) Incredibly controlled, sustained sliding high note hit by Inna Dukach singing the role of ‘Musetta’ in the Royal Opera House’s December production of ‘La Boheme’
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submitted by Julian Skrobek (musician / France):
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1) the workers renovating my building.
2) my neighbour moaning all through 'Amériques' because I stole his program during intermission at Varèse's retrospective in Paris.
3) Chinese radio.
4) the M.R.I. scan I took.
5) Henri Chopin breathing in La Plaine Des Respirs re-issue on Tochnit Aleph.
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submitted by Milos Vojtechovsky (artist/Skolska 28 gallery/Czech republic):
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1) Improvisation during the workshop New maps of time with John Grzinich. Recording down at the undergrounds sand pools. Performed by John Grzinich, Stanislav Abrahám, Lucie Pachová, Matěj Kamenický, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Matěj Gorner, Eliška Svobodová, Lucie Juřičková. Recorded by me. Rehearsing for the sound event Lucid Dreams of Mr. William Heerlein Lindley.
http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/sound.php?item=530
http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/sound.php?item=530
2) The September night at the Liben penisula. If you walk little further direction the improvised bar U Budyho towards the river the beat from the party fade away under the chores of crickets. The sound of the water was recorded at the Rokytka, the rest is from the area around the garden district. Warm September evening invited people to sit outside, sipping beer and watching the dark sky.
http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/sound.php?item=509
3) Ambient sound from the installation of Sam Ashley Life is Short and getting shorter all the time.
http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/sound.php?item=510
4) Laughing of my 10 month old daughter when she see watches on my arm.
no recording
5) Cyclist on the Railway bridge
Peter Cusacks recording of a passing cyclist on the wooden planks of the footpath across the Railway Bridge in Smíchov. Recorded with a contact mike.
http://panto-graph.net/favouritesounds/sound.php?item=533
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submitted by Phill Harding (sound artist/UK):
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1) overhead curlews and distant sirens. 5:40 PM Mar 16th
2) a magpie, sitting on top of a pawnbroker's sign, cackling. 6:16 PM Jun 8th
3) fog. silence. 3:17 AM Jun 29th
4) heavily laden train. the ecstatic squeaks of the space between the carriages. 11:43 AM Aug 26th
5) gentle fizz of powerlines in the mist. 7:36 AM Nov 8th
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submitted by Daniel Crokaert/Mystery Sea/Unfathomless (artist/label owner, Belgium)
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1) the modulated hums of a water purifier in the quiet night (Louvranges/Belgium) nearby some cousin's home
2) the sound of skis in the snow perceived from the middle of a forest (Auris en Oisans/France)
3) hearing for the first time Will Menter's sound sculptures in Vignemont (stone quarry)
4) bees in the lavender of my own garden this summer
5) sounds derived from the Mamori Sound Project (Francisco López Amazon worshop)
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submitted by John Kannenberg (sound artist, USA):
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1) A film projector in Henrik Håkansson's installation "Monarch - The Eternal", The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto
2) Train at night crossing the Huron Street bridge, Ann Arbor, Michigan
3) The neighborhood sounds of El trains and traffic outside the windows of my old sun porch in Chicago
4) The sound of my three Buddha Machines running simultaneously
5) The reverberations of my hands clapping into the original echo chamber at the Motown studios in Detroit
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submitted by Philip Julian (authorised version label / cheapmachines/UK):
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1) Torrential rain shower in the early hours of the morning - 21st August, Chausseestraße, Berlin.
2) An unprepared piano being dragged around a large, empty room during a house renovation.
3) The noise of passing trains heard from underneath bridge 240 LBW, South London.
4) Self-noise from a Roberts R606-MB radio, no waveband selected.
5) Unexpected massed birdsong following a short, heavy burst of rain - somewhere around midnight, 25th September, South London
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submitted by Hannah Marshall (improviser, UK):
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1) the sound of someone laughing while i had my face pushed into their warm back.
2) the open roaring silence of snow laden dartmoor.
3) amazing klezmer and sephardic ensemble playing in some woods in east sussex.
4) the sounds from my open throat as i lay on the floor of a large empty room.
5) Patti Smith's voice live at the royal festival hall.
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submitted by Mark Peter Wright (sound artist / ear room blog editor/UK):
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1) Chasing the sound of peewits with a good friend (Lancashire).
2) Air vents in sun street passage (London)
3) The start up sound of a cotton making machine (Manchester).
4) The huge storm above my hotel room (Poland)
5) A long wire fence resonating in the wind across the moors (Herefordshire)
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submitted by Jana Winderen (sound artist):
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1) The sound of a Sea Urchin feeding in the lagune Glimma at Hammarøy, Norway (June).
2) Sound of bats hunting, late at night by a forrester´s cabin in the Kaliningrad region, Russia (July).
3) The sound of the wings of a raven as it flew over the Icefjord Kangia, Greenland (October).
4) Cracking of ice 60 meters below the sureface in Disco Bay, Greenland (October).
5) Wind howling from the North Sea by the mouth of the river Coquet, England (October).
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submitted by Dale Lloyd (and/oar):
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1) Wind through the trees in a quiet neighborhood of Whittier Heights, Seattle.
1) Wind through the trees in a quiet neighborhood of Whittier Heights, Seattle.
2) Rare thunder in Seattle.
3) Rain hitting my 15th story window during a storm.
4) Tomoko Sauvage: Ombrophilia (either/OAR / and/OAR) True story: both the arrival of her son and the CD coincided on the same day after both being delayed from the same original due date one week prior.
5) Celer: Levitation And Breaking Points (to be re-issued by and/OAR in 2010)
May Dani Baquet Long live on in peace and love;
may we all do the same while still here on Earth.
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Submitted by Toshi Nakamura (musician / artist, Japan):
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- Washed and rinsed wine glasses, put on a very smooth and clean surface, starting to whistle...
- chirping birds outside my window
- occasional utterance by Kanta Horio during his performance at Loop Line, Tokyo, every time he encountered unexpected events or made a mistake
- a performance by Tetsuo Kogawa at Instal 09, Glasgow
- the gears and chain rolling on my bike when they are washed and given fresh grease
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submitted by Antti Tolvi (musician, artist/Finland):
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1) my new shakuhachis high notes
2) lau and nuutti singing as a duo
3) bullet-train passing by
4) 100-200?? swans flying over
5) Pandit Nikhil Banerjee in peacefull lake Turajärvi
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submitted by Michael Pisaro (composer/ USA):
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- Quiet river at night (Grosse Mühl, Neufelden, Austria)
- Winds blowing through the canyon (San Gabriel Mountains)
- Lead dust being sifted into a metal bucket
- Tuned traffic (recorded from inside a small, heavy pipe)
- The silence in the hills _after_ the tree cutters have stopped. (Val Verde)
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submitted by Mark Valentine:
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1) Percy, purring.
2) The wind, roaring.
3) Pages, turning.
4) “Scarbrurr ! Wooshn’t it be gret just to go to schleep and wek up in Scarburroww eh?”: one old drunk on a train to another, on hearing the destination announcement. Samuel Beckett and Alan Bennett all in one.
5) Hugo Montenegro, Classical Gas. Sheer grin-inducing cheese.
2) The wind, roaring.
3) Pages, turning.
4) “Scarbrurr ! Wooshn’t it be gret just to go to schleep and wek up in Scarburroww eh?”: one old drunk on a train to another, on hearing the destination announcement. Samuel Beckett and Alan Bennett all in one.
5) Hugo Montenegro, Classical Gas. Sheer grin-inducing cheese.
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submitted by John Grzinich (sound artist/Estonia):
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I must have 50 but here's just a few in chronological order:
1) Ominous buzzing lights of the Katowice train station
2) Common Snipe after midnight in the Emajogi river delta
3) Glass tubes placed in the Peipsi Lake
4) Acoustic sounds of ant highways in Ahja
5) Drips of the channels under the Bubenec Sewer Museum in Prague
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submitted by Maksims Shentelevs (sound artist, Latvia)
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1) Ghost orchestra – that I discovered appearing in 5 minuts after playing strings of kokle (latvian folk zither) by motors. Ghost is always different – distant singing, horns, hindu temple, harmonium, etc, depending on current resonation. In 15 minutes I fall in light trance. A very nice discovery.
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1) Ghost orchestra – that I discovered appearing in 5 minuts after playing strings of kokle (latvian folk zither) by motors. Ghost is always different – distant singing, horns, hindu temple, harmonium, etc, depending on current resonation. In 15 minutes I fall in light trance. A very nice discovery.
2) vibration of short circuit in the speaker cone transferred to strings via steel wires (cut strings)
3) amazing frogs on a nice shallow Engures lake – sounded like a dozen large glass balls rolled in hands.
4) My throat singing trainings (more sort of vacuum cleaner buzz then proper throat singing)
5) Noize gig that I went to yesterday – great performance by Kaspars Groševs and his friend
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submitted by Mark Wastell (musician & owner of Sound323, UK):
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- My Paiste Tam Tam, never ceases to amaze me
- My four year old daughter saying "Daddy ..... I love you!"
- Recordings of Miles Davis Quintet on their European tour 1967
- Otomo Yoshihide's piano feedback piece at Cafe Oto
- Those torrential rain storms we had in London a few weeks back
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submitted by Mike Harding (Touch records, UK):
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1. Bruce Gilbert's sounds breaking the sensors at Café Oto on The Night of the Long Worms, 19.xi.09
2. Berlusconi's cry of anguish as he is struck in the face by a protestor in December
3. Mistaking my owl ringtone (recorded by Chris Watson) for a pigeon at East Croydon station
4. The Honey Bees of Cherry Hill Farm & The Bee Symphony at Pestival, The South Bank, in August
5. Philip Jeck's soundcheck at Café Oto for Atmospheres 3, December 7th
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submitted by Chris Hladowski, in no particular order (musician: Nalle, Family Elan)
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1)The dizzying, intoxicating sound of myriad amplified muezzins around the historical district of Sultanahmet in Istanbul.
2) The sound of a lone muezzin wailing plaintively at 5 o'clock in the morning, echoing down a magnificently deserted gorge at Faralya, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, and then, almost in recognition of the absurdity of it all, letting out what I am sure was a little chuckle at the the end.
3) The sound of muezzins in Manningham, in my hometown of Bradford, particularly when the two closest to my house get going at the same time.
4) Being at pains to make a sound document of the rag-and-bone-man who used to trundle along my parents' back alley, before the sale of their house, the house I grew up in.
5) Discovering that that very same rag-and-bone-man can be heard and seen around the back of the lovely house I moved into in March of this year!
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6) My beautiful new bouzouki
7) The sound of the wind blowing through Patrick Farmer's hair in Glasgow city centre
8) The deathly, torturous sound of M.W. snoring on innumerable occasions during A Hawk and a Hacksaw's 2009 European/North American tour.
