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Windy afternoon in which I ventured to try to find the way to the aeolian antennas of the north of Lisbon. After a few hours of failed attempts, I finally found the way to one of them, after asking directions to a man in a quarry on the outskirts of Zambujal (the nearest village to the recording site). I was obliged to
find a strategic position to protect the microphones from the strong wind. Even with the microphones protected by my homemade fluffy windshields, the wind was dominant and would spoil the recording if I took no other care. What I did was use a rug that I always have in the trunk of the car to damper some dry vegetation on the protected side of a small mound next to the antenna. Since I use the microphones next to the ears attached to the set of earphones, the recording was made with me lying on the floor in the middle of the dry vegetation.
There are several aspects that I find quite interesting in listening to the piece. The first and largest (which in one way or another involves recording as a whole) is the duality between the relations of anthropogenic and natural forces (geo and biogenic). I influenced this aspect with an intervention in the landscape: I hung a small metallic bell in some shrubs that danced with the wind some 7 meters away. This bell rings sporadically in the first half of the recording (first 2 minutes), when eventually the plants will oscillate. The blades of the wind generator probably have the timbre that most fascinates me in this recording. It is the part of the machine whose sound results only of the natural force of the wind, as opposed to the monotonous constant hum of the electric generator. The track of air turbulence left by the paddle when it passes is majestic and is different each time. The appearance of a very low rumble of an airplane is also an event that pleases me by the blurriness that it has in the lower frequencies of the wind passing through the blades. Initially it is only a low frequency mass that is indistinguishable from the rest or, if distinguishable, incomprehensible. Then, gradually it becomes clearer that it is the sound of the jet that flies over the landscape. After the jet plane, at 2 minutes, the perspective of the recording changes slightly (collage -
crossfade), to a slightly more centered and under the antenna position. At this point the stereo of the passing of the blades is more noticeable and defined. You can also hear a delicate and bright crackling of the dry bushes that move with the wind above me / the microphones. At 2:52 a beautiful and unique punctuation of what I believe to be an insect (or perhaps a bird).
Olympus LS-14 + Par de EM172 binaural
Type
Wave (.wav)
Duration
4:46.942
File size
157.6 MB
Sample rate
96000.0 Hz
Bit depth
24 bit
Channels
Stereo
3 years, 11 months ago
great art
5 years, 7 months ago
wow
6 years, 1 month ago
This is great, love the ambience
6 years, 5 months ago
nice dd !