Harold Budd’s passing yesterday (from coronavirus complications) has inspired me to create a multichannel chamber of his music, which you can enter into and wander around in by clicking on the tabs below. Try them all at once, or mix channels at your leisure. His music, perhaps more than anyone’s, lends itself to this kind […]
Posts Tagged ‘soundscape’
Buddscape
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, contemporary music, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie, soundscape on December 10, 2020 | 2 Comments »
World Listening Day
Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged acoustic ecology, ecomusicology, global hum, soundscape, soundscape ecology, World Listening Day on July 18, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Today is World Listening Day, a global event held annually to Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic environments; Raise awareness about the growing number of individual and group efforts that creatively explore Acoustic Ecology based on the pioneering efforts of the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic […]
Humming the new earth
Posted in Science & society, tagged acoustic ecology, Anomalies, anomalistics, Anthropocene, conspiracies, global hum, Greensboro, hum, radio waves, rumble, soundscape, UFOs, Vermont, vlf on August 10, 2014 | 20 Comments »
[Note: This post has been edited slightly since it was first published, to clarify the difference between sound waves and radio waves. I have also posted several updates in the Comments section of this post, where I present my reconsidered views of what the “Global Hum” may be. I recommend reading those updates after you […]
Sounding the land
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged acoustic ecology, landscape art, music, soundscape on March 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Some Landscapes has a great post about landscape artist/musician Richard Skelton. As evident in works like Landings, Skelton is an artmonk, an eco-process-relationalist extraordinaire, and very much the musical equivalent of the kinds of artists I wrote about here. Threads Across the River (which follows Scar Tissue in the video below) is beautiful: