Category Archives: field recording

Upcoming Events: Screenings, Releases, Lectures

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Below are some exciting events coming up! There are actually a few others in development, but won’t post until things are official.

December 4-14 Baoying Window and Ships Passing on the Huangpu River will be part of Contemporary Experimental Films program 6 at the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano Havan, Cuba

12/11/14 Expanded Cinema Trio – Chris Lynn (projector, objects), Dan Barbiero (bass, objects) and Gary Rouzer (cello, clarinet, objects). More info TBA.Takoma Arts Center, Takoma Park, MD.

1/15-The Rain That Fell-New audio release on Impulsive Habitat.

1/26/15-10/13/15-Miniature Landscape Correspondence an audiovisual collaboration with Una Lee will be included in The Sensations of Tone exhibit curated by ALastair Noble at the Apexart Gallery in NYC-more on this in the upcoming months. Go Here

3/12/14-Visiting Artist Lecture series at Salisbury University More info soon

Also new audiovisual works from Lynlee

Stay Tuned!

Cover Art for upcoming release!

Live Super 8 Projection and Field Recordings at Sonic Circuits on 10/3/14 at 7:30 pm, Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Md

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I will be screening my recent Super 8 films with field recordings this Friday at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Md. Start time is 7:30 pm. Followed by Bonnie Jones, Chester Hawkins-Link is here
Come on out!
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Radio sounds and clapping hands around Xuanwu Lake, early morning (Audio 33)

If you spend any time in Nanjing, China you will find the lakes are very active with people and sounds. Over the years, I have collected quite a number of recordings(audiovisual) from Xuanwu Lake and Mochou Lake.  This recording is from Xuanwu lake around 6:30 am after a morning run

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Augmented Landscapes: A collaboration with Daniel Barbiero released on Zeromoon

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This text is from the liner notes :

Augmented Landscapes is a collaborative work melding acoustic and electronic sound elements with field recordings.

The acoustic element is provided by double bass and prepared double bass, played along a continuum of conventional and extended techniques. The electronic element, which consists in the granular synthesis of acoustic double bass performances, broadens the instrument’s sound palette to encompass varied and unconventional colorations.

When these elements are matched to the overheard sounds captured by these field recordings, a perspective emerges that is analogous to a hypothetical landscape augmented by a multiplication of dimensions both sonic and spatial. Points of reference shift as aural features constantly rearrange themselves in relation to each other, creating a series of gestalts in which figure and field alternate, blend and separate in varying combinations. Here familiar sounds mutate into something unfamiliar before becoming familiar once again.

This collaboration was released on the excellent Zeromoon label go here to Listen or download-
http://zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/augmented-landscapes

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Lynn__Daniel_Barbiero/Augmented_Landscapes/

A few extra notes-The field recordings I provided date back to 2004 .

The cover art is a still from the film Clouds and the Docklands.