24.12.18
[Track #058] Norwich Castle Museum Dungeon
location: Norwich Castle Museum Dungeon, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom | time: 13:23, November 20th 2018 | ambient: Historic building/basement/dungeon | author: Michael Ridge
"The dungeons are a rather damp, dark and unpleasant space, the recording picks up occasional drops of water hitting the floor. Distant thuds and clatter can sometimes be heard, usually from members of staff slamming doors or moving objects in one of the basement rooms nearby".
[Track #057] Unborn Chickens
location: small village in the north of Portugal | time: 20 Nov 2018 | ambient: bathroom | author: Tiago Morais Morgado
14.11.18
[Track #056] Yegoshikha Cemetery
location: Yegoshikha Cemetery, Perm, Russia | time: 16.57 on May 13th 2017 | ambient: Cemetery/park | author: Morten Poulsen
"When I was in Perm in Russia, I found the city to be very noisy and dusty. My hotel was in front of a large square where old trams from the soviet times was passing by every few minutes and they were loud and squeaky. I can’t speak or read russian, but wanted to explore, so I stepped on to one of the trams, having no idea where it was going. After some time I stepped off at a random spot, and that was when I found a big park with many trees that seemed to also be a cemetery. Even though it was in the center of the city, the park was very quite and hauntingly beautiful. It was spring and everything was green and peaceful, though all the plants and trees was growing wild around the apparently randomly placed graves. It was such a contrast to the noisy city just outside the park perimeters, that I had to come back a few days later, and spend more time in this place that spoke to me in a deep and strange way - a place that I might never get the chance to visit again in my life. In the foreground of the soundscape there are birds and general noise from the wind in the trees. In the background of the soundscape you can hear someone shouting, and I swear I couldn’t find the source of that shouting. It came from somewhere outside the park, but the sound bounced between the trees, so as to seem like it was a cemetery ghost that spoke from nowhere or everywhere."
"When I was in Perm in Russia, I found the city to be very noisy and dusty. My hotel was in front of a large square where old trams from the soviet times was passing by every few minutes and they were loud and squeaky. I can’t speak or read russian, but wanted to explore, so I stepped on to one of the trams, having no idea where it was going. After some time I stepped off at a random spot, and that was when I found a big park with many trees that seemed to also be a cemetery. Even though it was in the center of the city, the park was very quite and hauntingly beautiful. It was spring and everything was green and peaceful, though all the plants and trees was growing wild around the apparently randomly placed graves. It was such a contrast to the noisy city just outside the park perimeters, that I had to come back a few days later, and spend more time in this place that spoke to me in a deep and strange way - a place that I might never get the chance to visit again in my life. In the foreground of the soundscape there are birds and general noise from the wind in the trees. In the background of the soundscape you can hear someone shouting, and I swear I couldn’t find the source of that shouting. It came from somewhere outside the park, but the sound bounced between the trees, so as to seem like it was a cemetery ghost that spoke from nowhere or everywhere."
9.11.18
[Track #055] Donghwasa temple
location: Donghwasa Buddhist temple, South Korea | time: 10:29 AM, 08-09-2018 | ambient: temple | author: Gintas K
5.11.18
[Press] Sound Museum of Silence in books!
Below 20 - Sound Museum of Silence has been mentioned in a couple of books so far. The highlighted sentence in the above image comes from "Keywords in sound" a collection of twenty entries by leading scholars in the field of sound studies, published by Duke University Press.
In detail, the excerpt comes from the article about silence from Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier.
Ochoa Gautier mentioned the project also in another essay about silence as sonic weapon, as part of "Los silencios de la guerra" a publication by Universidad del Rosario, Bogotà .
30.10.18
[Track #054] Bushveld Afternoon
location: Limpopo Province, South Africa | time: around 2 pm, Nov. 21, 2015 | ambient: bushveld | author: Gregory Kramer
"I made this recording when I was in the bushveld of Limpopo Province, South Africa on November 21, 2015. It was about 2:00 pm in the afternoon and very hot. Much of the wildlife in the area had retreated to find shade."
[Track #053] Sleep (excerpt)
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