Sounds from Dangerous Places

[MrGongGong]

Some of you might be interested to hear Peter Cusaks Sounds from Dangerous Places project has resulted in a book and CD's

http://www.sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/

Peter also made the Favourite London Sounds album that I seem to remember referring to on another thread.......

his recordings are always fascinating to hear

[handsomefortune]

yes tis an interesting way of working....(and taking your mind off danger) though that's arguably because we have the luxury of peace, and the distance to ponder these things, on a forum mr gong gong! .

on 'late junction' recently, a piece of electronica was broadcast by 'biosphere' (norwegian contemporary called jenssen). the track was called 'fryiko' from album 'n-plants' (on touch records). the music was apparently written 'a month before the japanese disaster', and was presented in this context on the radio, presumably due to the accompanying sleeve notes.

as opposed to where jenssen was actually physically somewhere....and made a field recording.:

jenssen is also an active climber and mountaineer. This hobby is an inspiration on his work, as well as a source of natural sound samples.[1] His highest feat was in 2001, climbing the Cho Oyu (Himalaya, 8201 meters) without oxygen; in 2006, he thus released Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet (as Geir Jenssen).

or as in previous works, when jenssen fixated on a time and place in the past, made loops of fragments of miles davies for instance.

arguably, it's almost impossible to realistically recreate the tensions of war via a piece of written music - and even if this first statement isn't true, it's at least difficult, subjective to judge a 'successful' portrayal of the sound of war? but cusak's cd recording of a creative playing trumpet while a real war spits, cracks, booms, barks and rings 'nearby and in the distance' is pretty indisputably a 'successful concept'..... (rather than potentially a sensationalisation of coincidences around dates and themes, which jenssen might be accused of exploiting, in his marketing of nuclear themes in 'n-plants')?

[Serial_Apologist]

Sounds as sounds;
sounds as sound associations.

Identifications

The dawn chorus in Chernobyl
the one here
us-connecting
before even thought about.