Show 426: Ultrasonic city by Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Radio Panik)

“What do you hear in the city? What sounds are only perceptible in the ultrasonic realm, where bats and crickets communicate? Sounds which are so high, our human ears cannot perceive them. This acoustic world becomes audible in Ultrasonic City and they get their place in the sounds of the city and the world.

Director and narrator:
Wendy Van Wynsberghe

Fieldrecordings:
Marion Guillemette

Edits : Vincent Mattyn and yours truly

Thanks for your patience, support and tenacity: Acsr, Carmello, Clementine & Carine

And thanks to
acclivity
hanstimm
roubignolle
aguasonic
dobroide
cajo
Corsica_S
FreqMan
fons
Jovica
pera
klankbeeld
for their sounds under various Creative Commons licenses from Freesound

2013 Creative Commons Attributions Non Commercial Share alike

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The urban sound world is quite dense. By extracting the ultrasound I wanted to reveal a sonic universe or even add another layer to the field recordings. When you hear only the ultrasonic layer of the city, you hear a place devoid of human voices. They simply do not reach that high. Some very quiet sounds get enhanced, such as rubbing your fingers together, frottements in French. In a park at sunset you hear the foraging bats, whilst at the same time, our human ears only register ducks, planes and other humans. A swimming pool gets reduced to splashes, you do not hear the children shriek nor play. Plastic, metal, water all produce ultrasounds.
With the help of ACSR, I was able to record the same place in the city ultrasonically and with high quality “normal” microphones. This revealing/unravelling/hiding of layers of sound I want to present in this documentary.

Show 425: Captain Klangedum on tour

Show 425: Captain Klangedum on tour
by: Radio WORM
Recorded april 19th, Rotterdam at the Red Ear Festival
musicians; Peter Van Bergen, Robbert van Hulzen, Lukas Simonis
3 musicians were invited by the Red Ear Festival to tour 6 restaurants in the surrounding area of the festival (the so-called ‘Rotterdam Manhattan At The Maas’ district) with unexpecting audiences.
These are recording of 4 of their performances, sometimes lasting 2 minutes before they were told (very politely) to go away. there’s also lots of recordings of the musicians NOT playing.
Any unsuspected conclusions? Yes. Free Improv music goes down well with eaters of red meat (Gauchos!).

Show 424: SAKRA!2013 for Radio Helsinki

SAKRA!2013, found itself on an acoustic search at St. Andrä Church in Graz/Austria on 1/3/13. The installative composition by Marufura Fufunjiru, Johannes Raggam, Christian F. Schiller and Nikos Zachariadis    was    sent    via    numerous    FM- Transmitters to different radios spread across the church, which led to individual tonal responses. An abstract and concentrated examination of the subject luck/bad luck.
http://in-dust.org/SAKRA!2013.html

Show 423: Concert4ghosts by Ralf Wendt (Radio Corax)

The American composer Jason Freeman gave us the permission to use his online-violin-tool to play a concert for ghosts. So i tried to play with this and noises from the nights for ghosts. The voices gave Brian and Sarah Catling from Oxford. Let them in.

Ralf Wendt is living in Halle in East Germany and playing with animal voices, human voices and radio.
http://www.wolfinthewinter.com/wolves/item/ralf_wendt_1_1_1/