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Poll Question: Integral or incidental, your choice
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    Posted: January 04 2022 at 02:24
Happy New Year everyone!

The poll this time is dedicated to the use of field recordings in music. A field recording is anything recorded outside the studio for use in a composition. The roar of an aeroplane passing overhead, the crackle of bacon sizzling in a pan, a crash of thunder, or the crashing of waves. The possibilities are endless, and every one of the aforementioned have featured prominently in tracks I enjoy, in a way that is effective and affective, and truly augments the recording, rather than is simply added in an ornamental fashion.

Sometimes the field recordings are entirely integral to a track, and other times they are more incidental - but they are almost always overt and obvious.

The reason this topic came to me for the poll is almost entirely down to one album that I truly loved from last year, in which field recordings of New Zealand birdsong provide the majority of instrumentation. There’s a good chance that I will put forward a track from that album, but honestly, when I sat down to think about it, there are so many songs where the field recordings are a favourite part of the composition, so there is a lot to choose from. And while it may initially seem that the same might not be true within your own collection, I think you would be surprised it you gave it some thought. I doubt there are many people with any sort of music collection (regardless of genre) who don’t have several albums that contain field recordings.

Post as many examples as you like, but only one can be your nomination for the poll. I’m not unduly concerned whether or not your examples are included in PA - but try to avoid compositions that are well-known.

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voted for clang :)
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As some may guess, I love love love this topic but have a bit of an internal selection to do before coming up with suggestions. The current options in the poll above seem very dangerous and encouraging for premature voting though - I absolutely can see them making a worthwhile fun poll in their own right. Cool
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

As some may guess, I love love love this topic but have a bit of an internal selection to do before coming up with suggestions. The current options in the poll above seem very dangerous and encouraging for premature voting though - I absolutely can see them making a worthwhile fun poll in their own right. Cool

Oh yes, I was fully aware of the danger in naming the options as I have - and, indeed, one of the options has already received a vote! But as the interactive poll has always been more about the sharing and discovering than the voting, I’m not greatly worried. I can change them to something more boring if enough people are worried about premature/unrelated votes.
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Well the first three that immediately come to mind are...
Yes - Close to the Edge
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Stevie Wonder - Living in the City

But they're all too well known.
I'll have to do a little research on this one.


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:


I'll have to do a little research on this one.

my thought exactly. 
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Here I certainly will be bringing some oddities and some things of interest, outside of the poll, for those interested.  Wonderful subject, Nick!

First, I will have to resort to Bandcamp, for the full recording.  GRICE with "Agent Starling (High Roller Glitch)", from their one thousand birds symphony.  They are in PA, but pretty obscure.  The full recording features field recordings of birdsong in Devon, interlaced with human music.  https://grice.bandcamp.com/track/agent-starling-high-roller-glitch

Second, is a really funny little thing I heard on NPR (National Public Radio, in the US) one day, and I've never forgotten it.  "Froggy Goes A'Courting," which is an incidental mixture of human music and turkey response.  There is a bit of a speaking intro at the beginning.  So another kind of link outside of the usual:  https://www.npr.org/2012/11/25/165854629/man-sings-to-turkeys-turkeys-gobble-back

Thirdly, we find the Renaissance Faire Performer in all of his wild natural habitat.  This is a recording of dear departed friend, Owain Phyfe, who I've presented before, in a different way (a studio recording), with a different tune.  All live, here he performs with The New World Renaissance Band.  You can hear sounds of Faire in the background.  

Outside of the poll and of potential interest to folks, and brought here because this is a very interesting piece of music history, brought by Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.  A rare record, I do have a copy of it.  "The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka," Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea, which is the second side of the record.  It is very long, so not necessary listening. 







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Shoot. I was super sleepy when I cast my vote and I didn't even realize this was an interactive poll! xD
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kontakte.

He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music and is a prominent representative of 'musique concrète', a type of music composition that utilizes recorded sounds as raw material.

Thylacine: Versailles

He is a French musician and composer of electronic music. This piece is inspired by the sounds of the Palace of Versailles. 

Ty ft. Mpho: Brixton Baby

Ty was a renowned British rapper and producer, here collaborating with South African-born British singer-songwriter Mpho. This piece is inspired by the sights and sounds of Brixton, a district in the south of London. It is a multiethnic community, with a large percentage of its population of Afro-Caribbean descent.



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Sohrab is an Iranian musician living in Berlin... at least he was, apparently he had trouble with his visa, and had trouble in his home country Iran, too. Not sure what he is up to now, but there's some 2018 music of him around, even though I couldn't find any updated information about him.

2010's A Hidden Place is one of my all time top albums, the perfect mix of meditation and exciting sounds (of course you know I'm an experimental electronic music fan); I love this style and this is one of the best, if not the best. Here's Zarrin.



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This is probably out of competition as it won't beat Sohrab and also it's on PA, but I wanted to point you to Fred Frith's phantastic film Step Across the Border that uses a lot of field recordings in dialogue with the music (and the visuals). The following is not exactly a representation of what goes on, rather just a facet - not that much is on youtube. Anyway, enjoy, and watch that film if you haven't yet (and even if you have).
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...and then another one out of competition, shamelessly promoting my own music here:
Funex - Distant (done during Covid times sending recordings back and forth)
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

This is probably out of competition as it won't beat Sohrab and also it's on PA, but I wanted to point you to Fred Frith's phantastic film Step Across the Border that uses a lot of field recordings in dialogue with the music (and the visuals). The following is not exactly a representation of what goes on, rather just a facet - not that much is on youtube. Anyway, enjoy, and watch that film if you haven't yet (and even if you have).
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I did think of using another related piece of music, Henry Kaiser (who collaborated with Fred Frith) and David Lindley's "A World Out Of Time," music of Madagascar. Having a little trouble ensuring that it would fit the bill, however.  Great stuff, though!
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I really prefer Hangle-gora-whimwhom,  but I guess I'll take "Creak" from the poll because it's a homophone for "Creek".

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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

I really prefer Hangle-gora-whimwhom,  but I guess I'll take "Creak" from the poll because it's a homophone for "Creek".

David Bagsby, The Aviary  from 1991

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Am having trouble finding any audio anywhere for this.  Can you provide one?
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^ He used to have samples on his site but they're mostly gone or don't seem to work.


Some of his CDs may still be around but he produced them himself, so they're scarce.   He was kind enough to send me quite a few for review back when I added his albums.





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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

^ He used to have samples on his site but they're mostly gone or don't seem to work.


Some of his CDs may still be around but he produced them himself, so they're scarce.   He was kind enough to send me quite a few for review back when I added his albums.

Sorry, that link didn't work for me.  I could only see one song on it, and not the one you'd mentioned, when I went to his albums link that album didn't seem to have that song.  Cry
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Yeah those "myspace" pages are very buggy and he hasn't updated his site.   If it's important, PM me a mailing address and I'll see if I can get you a copy.
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The only music I could think of that I had was Field Recordings and More Field Recordings by Bang On A Can All-Stars. For these Recordings, the Bang On A Can organization asked/commissioned various composers to either find old recordings or make new recordings to compose new music around and form a musical dialogue. Hard part was choosing my favorites to share. Composers are listed with the titles of the compositions. All performed by the All-Stars.

Tyondai Braxton - Casino Trem


Paula Matthusen - The Ontology of an Echo


Renė Lussier - Nocturnal


Christian Marclay - Fade to Slide


Edit to add: The full albums are on Bandcamp.

https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings

https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/more-field-recordings










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