Sound Art / Soundscapes

Alec Finlay and Chris Watson's sound work on the Cairngorms: a record of extinct and native animal calls played at eleven sites and re-recorded with today's landscape. With a 20-page booklet.

Huge Tip! Xing presents the first LP by Luca Trevisani, AMAZOOM, sixteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 30 copies, each accompanied with an artist's multiple: a sculpture inspired by the seeds of Parartocarpus venenosa from the Amazon jungle, used by monkeys as combs and now objects to be mounted on the turntable while listening. The edition contains a text/score by …

Xing presents the LP L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano, nineteenth release of XONG collection–artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 with a set of pseudo-exotic photo-postcards taken by the artist, with original notes and memos. L'altro Hotel by Michele Di Stefano brings together, in a lucid and amusing way, fragments of a vast collection of voice memos collected by him from around the world as a cat…

*170 copies limited edition* "The city where I live was created by digging holes : removing stones from the ground, then making buildings with them. The only hill on the island was quarried. Elsewhere, they just dug giant square pits. Over time, many of these holes became dumps of some kind; the Francon quarry became a snow dump. Half the snow plowed from the streets of Montreal after each storm is loaded onto trucks and dumped in the 70 metres deep hole. Every winter, snow piles up there. Some …

Field recordings tracing the river from Tower Bridge out to the estuary marshes, where industry and birdsong compete for the same air. Ian Rawes has been documenting London's disappearing soundworld since 2008.

Spring in the wetlands of Lake Constance, the Vorarlberg Rhine Delta and the Bodanrück: birds, frogs and toads recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 2003, assembled as a "Wetland Wildlife Chorus".

Winter visitors and migrant birds at Lake Constance (Untersee, Gnadensee and the Rhine Delta of Vorarlberg), recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1987 and 2003 and assembled into one winter soundscape.

The red deer rut on the Darss peninsula on the Baltic coast of Germany, recorded by Walter Tilgner in September 1994 with a Neumann KU 100 dummy head, from midday to dawn; booklet with sonograms. Bonus: a 1934 shellac by Ludwig Koch.

The four seasons in a mixed beech wood and the red deer rut in a mountain forest, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner, mostly with a Neumann binaural dummy head, and assembled without further sound processing.

Two-disc spatial sound composition by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs, made from microscopically processed animal voices and nature sounds: a stereo version and a four-channel DTS version, with RaumklangMilieu studies. Released 2004.