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March 13, 2010
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HABITATS by Lasse-Marc Riek

The work at hand, “Habitats”, deals with habitats, areas and living spaces. In this particular case, these spaces were created from a pool of acoustic field recordings I realised while in Finland in Spring of 2007. Over the course of the past year, I have, for various reasons, increasingly been absorbed by the sounds emited by nature. The piece researches the interplay between natural elements on the one hand and passages I arranged at a later stage on the other. It deals with directional hearing and of course with the vast array of bird voices – as well as the silence one can detect in between all of these different sound sources.

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150 copies, CD-R, 3L002, 2010

Photos: Anne-Berit Riek
Identification (Birds): Patrick Franke
Translation: Tobias Fischer
Layout and Design: Àkos Garai
Recordings: Lasse-Marc Riek

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March 8, 2010
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Volunteer in silence research part.1

Today I volunteered a research project of Natuur en Mulieu Federatie Utrecht. In this Provence of the Netherlands there are several so called ‘Silence Area’s’ These nature reserves are open to the public. NMU wanted to know up to what level silence is respected in these area’s. Because of my interest in natural silence I was more than willing to participate in this project. For my recordings I regularly visit this kind of places which are more near to my home. From my own experience I know that silence in these forests are an illusion. This because your are allowed to enter some of them by car. Planes are flying over and of course the visitors to these places, and especially the dogs, are far from quiet.

February 10, 2010
In Climate, Nature
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Chris Watson Touch Radio

Chris Watson journeys to the South Pole for the forthcoming David Attenborough series “The Frozen Planet” (BBC, 2011). Here he reports back with his experiences…

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February 7, 2010
In Fieldcore, Nature
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Listen to Africa

Please check out this traveling site of Huw Williams and Rebecca Sumner. Who are undertaking a 2 year bike journey through Africa. Blogging and collecting some very nice audiomaterial:

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The Listen to Africa expedition is a two year journey by bicycle to record some of the sounds of Africa – from oral histories and music to soundscapes and wildlife; recording and publishing sound seems an appropriate way to communicate from a continent that has so much to say and is so rarely heard outside of its own borders.

While we have no fixed ideas about the subject matter, the Listen to Africa website will inevitably reflect the interests of the team: human rights and humanitarian welfare, wildlife and environmental protection, music and citizen journalism. We are also keen to work with African people and groups along the way, especially in local and community radio, podcasting and blogging. If you work in these areas, and if you’re interested in working with us, we’d love to hear from you.

February 3, 2010
In Nature
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Would We Listen to Nature if Our Lives Depended on It?

by Derrick Jensen, from Common Dreams

People who read my work often say, “Okay, so it’s clear you don’t like this culture, but what do you want to replace it?” The answer is that I don’t want any one culture to replace this culture. I want ten thousand cultures to replace this culture, each one arising organically from its own place. That’s how humans inhabited the planet (or, more precisely, their landbases, since each group inhabited a place, and not the whole world, which is precisely the point), before this culture set about reducing all cultures to one.

I live on Tolowa (Indian) land. Prior to the arrival of the dominant culture, the Tolowa lived here for 12,500 years, if you believe the myths of science. If you believe the myths of the Tolowa, they lived here since the beginning of time. This story may sound familiar, but its significance has, thus far, been lost on the dominant culture, so it bears repeating: when the first settlers arrived here maybe 180 years ago, the place was a paradise. Salmon ran in runs so thick you couldn’t see the bottoms of rivers, so thick people were afraid to put their boats in for fear they would capsize, so thick they would keep people awake at night with the slapping of their tails against the water, so thick you could hear the runs for miles before you could see them. Whales were commonplace in the nearby ocean. Forests were thick with frogs, newts, salamanders, birds, elk, bears. And of course huge ancient redwood trees.

December 12, 2009
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The art of do-nothing branding

Years ago I read Masanobu Fukuoka’s One-Straw Revolution and it moved me. To say that it is a book on agriculture and farming is akin to suggesting that Sun Tzu’s Art of War was simply a military treatise. In other words, Fukuoka’s philosophy around farming has the ability to inform a broad range of topics and strategies. Ultimately, it is about quieting our cleverness in a way that allows us to see how we really can do more with less.

For those not familiar with the book, One-Straw Revolution is an engaging story of a unique Japanese farmer named Fukuoka. A man many credit with inspiring the permaculture movement. Folks marvel at his approach to farming because he creates sustainable and bountiful crops year after year, while only working on his land a fraction of the time compared to other local farmers. While other farmers are busy harrowing, tilling, seeding and plowing, Fukuoka seems still and Zen like. His energy is focused on handling the seeds in his home and then observing the land. His methodology has been described as do-nothing farming which is ironic, because by doing nothing he has actually mastered the art of doing more.

December 11, 2009
In Fieldcore, Nature
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First real Fieldcore recording

Today I undertook my first attempt to do a real Fieldcore recording. For me the biggest difference with my ordinary working method is that I couldn’t use my diesel powered van. So I took off on my bike. The first thing that became clear riding my bike is that this is a way more effective way to mentally prepare myself to do a recording. The smooth transition in audible landscape makes you way more aware of your surroundings. Normally I am in my car listening to the radio. I drive to a point I looked up on my computer. Most of the time these locations do not live up to my expectations from a audible point of view. Also to sudden transtion makes that my ears are not opened up the same way I noticed today during my ride on the bike.