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  • One last evening in Kashihara

    One last evening in Kashihara
    2025/12/04
    "I chose this soundscape because I wanted to work with sonic elements far removed from what I’m used to hearing. That led me to explore sounds from Japan, and when I came across this recording, it struck me as something special because of its nostalgic quality. Like the person who captured it, I’ve also experienced “last evenings” in the places where I’ve lived. My own feeling isn’t always nostalgia, but rather a kind of emptiness. I wanted to explore that sense of abandonment through this beautiful soundscape of the Yamato River.

    "In this piece, I processed the alarm sound in several different ways to create drones that helped me evoke the nostalgia and tenderness present in the original recording. I also wanted to complement the river with my own recordings of bodies of water. In that sense, the work functions, for me, both as an emotional cleanse and as a study of water itself."

    Kashihara city soundscape reimagined by Sara Ramírez Márquez.
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    8 分
  • Wëeña Rügaü (children of the river)

    Wëeña Rügaü (children of the river)
    2025/12/04
    "Far deep inside the Amazon, after twelve hours on a canoe through green wilderness and mirrored skies, I arrived at a small indigenous Tikuna settlement nestled beside the river. There, children laughed as they bathed in the water’s bronze light, while their mothers washed clothes by the river, each rhythmic strike against the wood becoming part of the forest’s pulse — a gentle percussion older than language.

    "From these living sounds, Wëeña Rügaü — Children of the River — was born. A composition woven from field recordings captured in this hidden, timeless place where the world seems to hum with remoteness. The piece unfolded naturally: the recordings became a bed of sound upon which layers of ambient pads from the OP-1 synth floated, diffused through a mood pedal. A kalimba then drifted in and out of the current, its tones dissolving into textures of light and distance as they passed through the Microcosm pedal.

    "The piece moves like a dream — liquid, translucent, and eternal. It holds within it the memory of a suspended moment: the sun on the river, the echo of laughter, the endless green horizon breathing in rhythm. Recorded within a remote indigenous Tikuna community, this piece carries the shimmer of that living river — where sound becomes both memory and movement.

    "Wëeña Rügaü is not merely a recording; it is a memory capsule — a sonic offering to the water that carries stories older than words, dedicated to the people who still live within its song."

    Sao Pedro Tipisca Amazon soundscape reimagined by Rafael Diogo.
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    5 分
  • By the river's side

    By the river's side
    2025/12/04
    By the river’s side in the Amazon, Colombia, the soundscape blends the gentle rush of the water with the rhythmic motion of people washing clothes. Children play joyfully in the river, their laughter and splashes mingling with the natural flow, creating a lively, harmonious atmosphere.

    Recorded by Rafael Diogo.
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    6 分
  • Prec-limit

    Prec-limit
    2025/12/04
    "I made a number of live jams over a couple of weeks, each around an hour long, all manipulating a snippet of the recording, with some added synths; the final piece is an edit and amalgamation of two of these. A selection of others can be found at https://dtyb.bandcamp.com/album/warsaw.

    St. Martin's church, Warsaw reimagined by dtyb.
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    14 分
  • Hachimanju noir

    Hachimanju noir
    2025/12/04
    "When I heard Miyu's recording of cicadas, I was brought back to humid late summers in Japan — where I lived for two years in the mid-aughts — particularly the time around the Obon festival, when, traditionally, the veil between the living and the dead is said to be at its thinnest.

    "Cicadas, in a synesthetic way to me, are the sound of that veil shaking in a hot breeze, the static cling of the cosmic curtain, and there's a shiver to be savoured hearing them crackle and seethe as you climb the forested steps to the shrine that overlooks your neighborhood and pass through the red torii gate, half-hoping to be transported to some liminal, Twin Peaks by way of Haruki Murakami spirit lodge, but settling contentedly for a choco-banana from a festival vendor before the sweaty walk home."

    Cicadas in Niigata, Japan reimagined by Casey Broadwater.
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    5 分
  • Archipelago of echoes

    Archipelago of echoes
    2025/12/04
    "The interface of humans and water is celebrated in the recording and composition. I collected bell sounds from the recorded soundscape, and brought them to the forefront in a reverberant timed and tonal pattern, emphasized with percussive textures, while the original soundscape forms foundation and harmony throughout, ultimately zooming to power and reflection."

    It-Tlett Ibliet sounds from Malta reimagined by Heather Spence.
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    1 分
  • Surface obsessions : I

    Surface obsessions : I
    2025/12/04
    "This piece starts with the original recording, which consists of lively, beautiful species. However, as we move forward new, unconventional sounds are introduced.
    I have been obsessing over sounds, in its raw state, without any acoustic characteristics of a space imbibed in it. I have used a lot of surface recordings done with contact mics. All these are recordings of vibrating surface, which are then EQ'd later to create specific musical chords to introduce a sense of musicality.

    "For me, this reimagined piece is basically a journey, where the sense of space gets lost gradually as we move our ear from the space to the resonating surface of the space."

    Farm life in Kerala reimagined by Prabuddha Mukhopadhyay.
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    5 分
  • Tsukutsukuboshi

    Tsukutsukuboshi
    2025/12/04
    Japanese people call the loud cicada sound “Tsukutsukubōshi,” because that’s what it sounds like they’re singing. Don’t you think so when you try saying it out loud quickly?

    This recording was made in Niigata, a region in Japan famous for its rice production. The area also has a thriving garment industry, with factories scattered among the rice fields.

    If you listen closely, you can hear distant sounds of cars and trains. After a gentle breeze passes, you may even hear the siren of an ambulance.

    Recorded by Miyu Hosoi.
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    1 分