"Sometimes sound summons the world with more certainty than my verse ...secretly, like twilight. The world seems lost in listening, trying to validate itself in each solitary sound." - Akio Suzuki
After we discovered the cd “Le Brame Des Cerfs, Forêts d’Automne / Rutting Red Deers” on the Frémaux & Associés imprints, we immediately fell in love with the sounds of French deers. Deers are the most innovative experimental musicians of the century, taking much from modern black metal vocalists and contemporary sound poetry. In the Walloon forests they hide as well for unholy and highly erotic rituals. This will be the bus trip of the year, heading to the heart of the Ardennes for a long walk through nature in search of nonconformist deer sounds with the local forester.
Got this some weeks ago for my birthday: a release from 2005 from Sean Meehan. He’s NY-based drummer with a unusual view on the actual drumming part, that to say the least.
It’s a double cd that’s sealed in a white sheet of watercolor paper and it reminds me of artifacts produced in the industrial art scene in the 80s. It’s actually no surprise for me that Meehan is coming up with a record like this: he’s music is barely audible sometimes. That’s a small step to the locked grooves and betonned vinyl from the Anti-record movement, no?
A relatively new album from Ernst Karel. “Heard Laboratories” consists of unprocessed, long-take recordings made in various scientific research environments at Harvard University, edited together to make five pieces.
You can download a live version of his project at http://wanderingear.com/wel001.html
Some birds species have the ability to replicate the songs of other birds, voices of other animals and - not unknown - humans. But less know is the fact that birds also imitate machines. In this video you see the Australian Lyrebird imitating hammers, a chainsaw and a power drill. All because there has been construction work in the zoo.
For the people who are interested the British library released some years ago also a great cd on the subject. You can find eg a blackbird from london that imitates a computer modem. Check the bl.com site for more info.
I’m sorry I’ve been off the map for a while. February has been busy with our yearly Kraak festival. If you’re interested: Yoshi Wada and Bill Orcutt where the two highlights for me, and Wada would have been perfect for Displaced Sounds as well.
A release that’s been really inspiring is the Framework250 4cd compilation. It’s a celebration for the 250th radioshow they hosted on ResonanceFM. To mark the occasion, a collection of artists who have been important to the program over the years created new works for the compilation. A lot of our favourite artists are involved. Find out more
After we discovered the cd “Le Brame Des Cerfs, Forêts d’Automne / Rutting Red Deers” on the Frémaux & Associés imprints, we immediately fell in love with the sounds of French deers. Deers are the most innovative experimental musicians of the century, taking much from modern black metal vocalists and contemporary sound poetry. In the Walloon forests they hide as well for unholy and highly erotic rituals. This will be the bus trip of the year, heading to the heart of the Ardennes for a long walk through nature in search of nonconformist deer sounds with the local forester.
Toshiya Tsunoda 
