Recorded shortly after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, 14 July 2013.

Listening bestows hard-to-hold gifts. “We're here for you,” says a voice to the impassioned gentleman on the street; he's publicly sharing his anguish about the killing of Trayvon Martin, a victim of racism and Florida's Wild West “stand your ground” law. 

We hear one person defy the silence (or one-line news item) which envelops too many of the poor, non-white kids who die every day. Amidst a busy downtown street, this protest remains defiantly personal; the voice and questions emerge out of an anguish seldom heard or felt in public between all those restaurants and shops. Are we here for you?

Do I fit the profile of a criminal? (for Trayvon Martin)

Black-fronted titi call in Atlantic forest 

Recorded at 6:40am in Serrinha do Alambari, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
With ORTF Schoeps microphones in Sound devices Mixpre-6 24 bits 96kHz

Thanks to Felix Blume & Gregoire Chauvot for their gear.

Callicebus Nigrifrons Call

4.33 Gales Rains Windowpanes

April 16th 2022. 67th(R) Subway, Queens. 7:47 PM

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Eavesdropping on a conversation amongst bullfrogs along Clear Creek in Coralville, Iowa. Recorded with a matched stereo pair of Rode NT5 mics paired in ORTF configuration.

Bullfrogs along Clear Creek, Coralville, Iowa

Your Felt Path by Olafur Eliasson at Sesc Pompeia

Stereo mix of eight-channel, electroacoustic music

Breath and the Machine

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A drone composition focused on the pitches (C, C#, D, Eb) to support personal reflection of the concept of race with regard to Black-White race relations.

Race

Each year, at the Hiroshima Peace Park, a pagoda peace bell is rung on August 6th at 8:15 a.m. I witnessed that ringing last in 2005. Some forty thousand people gathered at the park early that morning for the yearly ritual. And when the assembly was hushed for the ringing of the bell, I was overwhelmed not by our collective silence, but rather by the density of sound surrounding us. Cicadas. I experienced an instant ear flash, to say: that sixty years earlier, at the detonation 1900 feet above the city, cicadas were the last sound heard by the forty-five thousand people who perished instantly into the hottest heat, the brightest light, and the loudest sound in world history. That’s what was on my mind when I recorded the bell, and later the sounds of cicadas, to mix together. To create a historical patina, I played the sound back through two 1940s radio sets, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and re-recorded it the way it might have sounded if broadcast on that day. This composition was commissioned by the International Community Foundation and is dedicated to all who suffered from the nuclear atrocity.

The recording is available on CD:  https://voxlox.myshopify.com/products/steven-feld-the-time-of-bells-4

07 Hiroshima  The Last Sound

L'écho de la ronde_Kra KOUASSI

My sound work encompasses field recordings, electroacoustic and acousmatic music, text-sound scores, free-improvised low-tech electronics, and compositions for acoustic instruments. 

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