#artificial memory trace

The Unfathomless Series: artificial memory trace, David Vélez & Bruno Duplant

The Unfathomless series (the younger sibling of the Mystery Sea label, currently on hiatus) returns with two very different soundscapes: a night in Australia’s Garig Gunak Barlu with Slavek Kwi (artificial memory trace) and a “dilapidated mass of sound” from David Vélez & Bruno Duplant.  As usual, the presentation is exquisite: Daniel Crokaert’s fine distressed art on square cards, encased in…

ACL 2015: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

This year’s top field recording and soundscape albums take us to global extremes, from the frozen Arctic to the heart of the jungle.  They travel to congested cities and retreat to quiet streams.  They fall in love with frogs and olives.  To listen to these recordings is to engage with one’s own environment and to recognize the beauty of others.  Some of these works are soft and subtle; others…

Yellow and orange-skinned frogs croak and insects chitter. In the murky depths of the swamp, Artificial Memory Trace documents and records the sound of the African wildlife, and it produces some unexpected results. The whole album is a discovery. Some of the sounds resemble the ever-so-soft mews of cute little kittens, but don’t let that fool you – whatever it is, it’s probably…