John Duncan in Yakuin tonight,

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A recent recording was featured on Framework this week...

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The incredible life of the ‘bird man’ refugee who brought tweets, chirps and trills to British radio Ludwig Koch was once as influential as David Attenborough is today – a new film by his granddaughter sheds light on a tragic event in the naturalist’s life in Berlin before he fled the Nazis

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Chance Encounters #042

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Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange, Benoît Pioulard & Sean Curtis Patrick, Yoga Nugraha Usmad, Fátima Miranda, Salvatore Sciarrino, Drew McDowall & Kali Malone, Dirk Wachtelaer, Henri Chopin, Robert Ashley, Fennesz, Delphine Dora et al

A new public-domain field recording of the tiny frogs that emerge in the forests of western Japan at this time of year. (CC0)
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A recording of a short walk through Susan Philipsz’ The Trees Listen exhibit at Dazaifu Tenmangu.

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Nested kaleidoscopes at Patrick Farmer's On Vibration Substack.

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One of a series of early 17th-century engravings depicting imaginary utopias and dystopias, illustrations for The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609), Bartolomeo Del Bene's poetic reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Chance Encounters #041

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Pablo Picco, Ján Števuliak, Nyokabi Kariũki, Otto Luening, Philip Corner, U.e., Christian Clozier, Marja Ahti, Shanghai Oscillators Group, Yuko Nexus6, Joe Posset, pä, David Rosenboom, Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore, Sarah Davachi

Open call for artists! More than 200 field recordings from all over the world for you to reimagine and recompose, in the Cities and Memory Spring Project! 🌼🎧

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A previously unknown species of leaf warbler has been discovered in Japan.

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Chance Encounters #040
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Síria, Alessandro Bosetti, Soundwalk Collective, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Jason Lescalleet, Biliana Voutchkova & Leila Bordreuil, Sachiko M, Kapotte Muziek, Heather Frasch & Koen Nutters, Lucio Capece & Mika Vainio, William S. Burroughs

Late Afternoon Birdsong. Ikei Jima, Okinawa

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Open Call
Time to Listen – Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound. Symposium on 26–27 June, Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg.

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Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross exp...

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Selected Field Recordings 5.

Public domain field recordings some of which are remastered from the Aporee Sound Maps. Also available from Internet Archive.

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Chance Encounters #039
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Sally Anne Morgan, Coppice, Sylvain Chauveau & Felicia Atkinson, David Lacey, Arsenije Jovanovic, Anne-F Jacques, Jack Spicer, Graham Lambkin, Gilbert Amy, Ryu Hankil, AMM & MEV, Dick Higgins, Jin Sangtae, La Monte Young, Reinier van Houdt

"Alison Knowles stands out as the sole female artist among the founders of Fluxus, yet she has remained an enigmatic, underrecognized figure in the history of art. Performing Chance fills a gap in the record, bringing to 💡Knowles’s transformative body of work," from 🎨 to performance to poetry...

Will do! A trip up that way is long overdue...

Fellow traveller! Nice to hear from you. It sure seems like we have a lot in common. I'm just checking out your Bandcamp now. Lovely stuff.

Susan Philipsz: Shine On Me. Daizafu Tenmagu Shrine Museum, Japan. Until May 10th.

Eliane Radigue - Echos_Engsubs This is "Eliane Radigue - Echos_Engsubs" by Eleonore Huisse on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

In memory of Éliane Radigue the makers of this documentary have made it free to view online. What a lovely gesture

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Chance Encounters #038
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Aho Ssan & Resina, Rashad Becker, Sarah Hennies & Tristan Kasten-Krause, Christian Bök, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jonáš Gruska, Alexandra Spence, Jackson Mac-Low, Radboud Mens, Alessandro Barbanera, Charlie Morrow, Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka

Since 958, Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine has held an annual Poetry Composition Ceremony under the peach blossoms. This year's starts March 1st.

Loving Allan Gilbert Balon's The Magnesia Suite.

Chance Encounters #037
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d'incise, Rory Salter, Matthieu Saladin, Amelia Cuni, Laura Cocks, Seamus Cater, Joseph Beuys, Tongue Depressor, Amit Dagim, Ariha Brass, Ain Bailey, Ipek Gorgun, Robert Normandeau, Cremation Lily, H.Ö.H., Ethel Cain, Low, Luke Sanger, NYX

Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’ Music Mouse is back for its 40th anniversary.

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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the exper... Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

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In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz @WiggishHistory considers the connection between walking and writing: publicdomainreview.org/essay/rambling-reflectio...

Jenny Holzer. Truisms, 1977–1979