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Environments 12: new concepts in acoustic enrichment (LP)

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Environments 12 reimagines field recordings for the digital age, blending real and synthetic voices in speculative soundscapes. Machine Listening’s debut LP challenges reality, blurring nature, tech, and human creativity into a mesmerizing, genre-defying sonic experience.
Don leaving Linda and instead going to the Osaka Aquarium to listen to dolphins
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Cat. number: RESLP038
Year: 2025

Release notes

Is it difficult to reproduce the sounds of nature?’ Environments 12 is a new, speculative addition to the once-popular Environments series: a sequence of 11 records released between 1969 and 1979 that anticipated a mass-market in mood-altering nature recordings. Now, in the era of planetary scale computation, it is the environment itself that’s being updated. The reproduction, synthesis and management of soundscapes has become ubiquitous and automated. Loudspeakers and microphones are laced…

Tracklist
A1Acoustic Enrichment (Prelude)0:19
A2Environments 12:21
A3Psychologically Ultimate Seashore1:03
A4But They Weren't Perfect2:44
A5I Like To Think2:59
A6Reef Mega Mix1:18
A7Reef Lullaby3:17
B1That Is A Beautiful Memory1:09
B2Dream Chord / Be In3:32
B3Round And Round2:40
B4Conversations We Can't Understand2:24
B5Gorilla Tropics1:39
B6Symphony Natura2:46
B7Reef Lament4:24
B8Planetary Computer2:25
Credits
James Parker
Composed By
Joel Stern
Composed By
Joe Talia
Mastered By
Machine Listening
Research, Written-By, Producer
Catherine Ryan
Voice
David Chesworth
Voice
Francis Plagne
Voice
Jasper Dockray
Voice
Jenny Hickinbotham
Voice
Roslyn Orlando
Voice