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  Far Afield
  Various Artists - Far Afield:
  A Webbed Hand Compilation [wh055]

Somewhere in the spectrum between Musique Concrete and Phonography, is a vast gray area that is disowned and disputed by either side. This compilation treats this no-man's land as its playground.

Field recordings they are, with some processing, but not just walls of rhythmic noise. Sounds of nature, sounds of the city, using the non-instrumental rhythms and melodies of the source recording as the focal points, coaxing the music and beauty out of unplanned, un-orchestrated events. This 2-CD compilation was curated by Fred Yarm.

Go to the Webbed Hand site and download links

 
     
 

The Two Shades (5:00)

This track is a fragment of a 20 minute piece. All sound is derived and processed from the in utero heartbeats of my children who are fraternal twins. Also captured in the original recordings are the sounds of the hospital as the nurses work in the ward.