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Francisco Lopez - Amarok by FathomDistribution. Vancouver Soundmarks. Francisco lopez. Bill Fontana - Cologne San Francisco Sound Bridge, 1987. Denis Smalley - Valley Flow notes. The main sound source for Wind Chimes is a set of ceramic chimes found in a pottery during a visit to New Zealand in 1984.

Denis Smalley - Valley Flow notes

It was not so much the ringing pitches which were attractive but rather the bright, gritty, rich, almost metallic qualities of a single struck pipe or a pair of scraped pipes. These qualities proved a very fruitful basis for many transformations which prised apart and reconstituted their interior spectral design. Taking a single sound source and getting as much out of it as possible has always been one of my key methods for developing sonic coherence in a piece. Not that the listener is supposed to or can always recognize the source, but in this case the source is audible in its natural state near the beginning of the piece, and that ceramic quality is never far away throughout. 01 denis smalley valley flow. Pete Stollery - Fields Of Silence. Hildergard Westerkamp Kits Beach Soundwalk. Hildegard Westerkamp - Beneath the Forest Floor (AUDIO) Hildegard Westerkamp - Beneath the Forest Floor (notes) For Two Digital Soundtracks Length: 17:23 Beneath the Forest Flooris composed from sounds recorded in old-growth forests on British Columbia's westcoast.

Hildegard Westerkamp - Beneath the Forest Floor (notes)

It moves us through the visible forest, into its' shadow world, its' spirit; into that which effects our body, heart and mind when we experience forest. Most of the sounds for this composition were recorded in one specific location, the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island. This old-growth rainforest contains some of the tallest known Sitka spruce in the world and cedar trees that are well over one thousand years old.

Beneath the Forest Flooris attempting to provide a space in time for the experience of such peace. Beneath the Forest Floorwas commissioned by CBC Radio for Two New Hours and was produced in CBC's Advanced Audio Production Facility in Toronto with the technical assistance of Joanne Anka and Rod Crocker. Vancouver Harbour Ambience (AUDIO) Francis Dhomont: Espace / Escape (AUDIO) Luc Ferrari PRESQUE RIEN n.1 - le lever du jour au bord de la mer - 'Lough Foyle (excerpt)' by bunú. Walter Ruttman - Weekend. SNOWFORMS - R. Murray Schafer.