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Soundscape R\u00f8st – Spaces and Species Vol I | Elin M\u00e1r \u00d8yen Vister<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n Soundscape R\u00f8st-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the R\u00f8st archipelago \u2013 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO\/S\u00e1pmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound material listened to and recorded between 2010 and 2011. The listener will experience a multitude of nature and sea-bird voices\/spaces and acoustic moments, spanning from booming roars to the faintest of hums. You can listen to the song of the multitude of pelagic seabirds breeding in the R\u00f8st archipelago and the Nykan nature-reserve and the acoustic moments in time of their ocean-and land spaces they spend their time in every spring and summer, mating, breeding their chicks, socializing and coming and goings searching for food.The lowfrequenzy grunts of the Razor Bill, the song of the last Kittiwakes of Ved\u00f8ya, the swarming of hundreds of Puffin wings and their ancient cowlike song and grunts in their nests in Hernyken nature reserve, The Eiders of K\u00e5r\u00f8ysundet an early winter-spring morning and the sounds of the ebb and flow on the Northside of R\u00f8stlandet are amongst the soundscapes on Vol 1.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vol I is eavesdropping to the rapidly changing soundscapes of one of Northern Europe most numerous seabird breeding colonies which has for half a century experienced an escalating dramatic decline of the pelagic seabird populations, resulting in the silencing of the bird mountains . Soundscape R\u00f8st also listen to and documents the acoustic realities of a marine land -and seascape over time and listens to nature-culture in an everlasting continuum of interdependency. The vinyl album is an integral part of the sound installation Soundscape R\u00f8st \u2013 The Listening Lounge, (2012) and is the first album in the Soundscape R\u00f8st triology.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note to the reissue on Gruenrekorder. <\/p>\n Tracklist:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n North <\/p>\n South <\/p>\n Excerpts:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MP3 | North 3<\/a> <\/p>\n 12 Tracks (53\u203230\u2033) <\/p>\n <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image credits <\/p>\n www.soundscaperost.com<\/a> <\/p>\n Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n textura<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n She created the album from many hours of sound material recorded between 2010 and 2011. While the presented tracks sound like undoctored field recordings gathered at different island spots, notes on the album’s inner sleeve suggest that some degree of editing was applied (\u201cAs a sound recordist,\u201d she writes, \u201cI have created hyper-realities and made some artistic decisions along the way that have shaped the content of what you listen to\u201d). Even so, the settings come across as natural documents captured in real time. Shifting the focus away from the human being to the landscape itself is consistent with M\u00e1r’s desire to examine places in their fullest sense and to study the ways all of the habitants of a site interact. For anyone wondering why field recordings compiled a decade ago are only now being made available, the material in fact originally appeared in 2012 in a self-released digital form but is now being issued by Gruenrekorder as the first vinyl chapter in a trilogy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The album splits into \u201cNorth\u201d and \u201cSouth\u201d sides, with the locations associated with the tracks clarified by a map on the inner panel, the gesture a helpful aid for the listener wishing to conjure the experience of being there. The chatter of different gull types\u2014the Great Blacked Back, Herring, and Common\u2014resounds throughout the opening \u201cEbb and flow through seaweed,\u201d with the rustle of water and air on mainland R\u00f8st a backdrop. The gulls make a return appearance in \u201cSeagulls on the south side of Storfjellet,\u201d this time augmented by the low-frequency chatter of the Razor Bill. In \u201cK\u00e5r\u00f8ysundet early spring morning,\u201d M\u00e1r, recording from a small boat, captures the quacks and hoo-hoos of Common Eiders and sounds generated by the Kittiwakes of K\u00e5r\u00f8ya. The latter’s \u2018voice‘ is particularly unusual, a warble and wail that at certain moments resembles a whimper or even laughter; they appear in \u201cThe birdcliffs of Ved\u00f8y\u201d too, though this time as a shrieking, engulfing mass.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The recording at times gets extremely close to the birds. The fluttering of wings seems like it’s happening an arm’s length away during \u201cMidsummer in Hernykens eastern skree,\u201d as does the cow-like mooing of various bird types and the chirping of hungry chicks. On the \u201cSouth\u201d side, \u201cEllevsnyken eastern skree\u201d catches the ear for the guttural, almost porcine croak of the Razor Bill and the squeal of other birds off in the distance. \u201cPuffins wheeling and swarming\u201d documents a cyclic group activity called wheeling that sees them moving en masse in an elliptical formation when flying upwards towards their nest sites.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A genuine sense of place is established by the soundscapes, so much so that it’s possible to picture oneself perched on a large rock enveloped by the sights and sounds of the birds, wind, water, and islands. An ecological dimension also emerges via text references to the decline in seabird populations over time. Since the album’s 2012 release, Kittiwakes and Guillemot no longer breed on the bird mountain of Ved\u00f8ya, and the number of Puffins breeding in the R\u00f8st archipelago has dropped from 1.5 million pairs in 1980 to less than 200,000; M\u00e1r’s projection is that none will be left in R\u00f8st by 2040 if the decline continues. That the rich symphony of sounds produced by the creatures has diminished so considerably over time turns this recording into something of a lament for a vanishing paradise. That makes this document all the more valuable, and it’s an attractively presented one too, with the inclusion of drawings made by Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen on R\u00f8st in the 1880s giving it an extra stamp of authenticity. <\/p>\n framework radio<\/a> | #783<\/a><\/strong> Soundscape R\u00f8st – Spaces and Species Vol I | Elin M\u00e1r \u00d8yen Vister Gruen 204 | Vinyl (+ Digital) | Digital > [order] Reviews Soundscape R\u00f8st-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the R\u00f8st archipelago \u2013 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18963,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18960\/revisions\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSince the album was released in 2012, the decline in the seabird populations have escalated. During the summer of 2020 the bird mountain of Ved\u00f8ya became silent. Statistically speaking there are no more Kittiwakes and Guillemot breeding on Ved\u00f8ya. In 1980 there was approximately 1.5 million pairs of Puffins breeding in all of the R\u00f8st archipelago and on Ved\u00f8ya alone, 12000 pairs of Guillemots and 25.000 pairs of Kittiwakes. Now the overall Puffin population is down to around less than 200.000 pairs and the few Guillemots left are hiding in small caves and crevices. The last Kittwakes of R\u00f8st are now clinging on in K\u00e5r\u00f8ya and Gjellfruv\u00e6r. If the decline continues, there will be no Puffins left in R\u00f8st by 2040.<\/p>\n
\n1. Ebb and flow through seaweed 4.24
\n2. K\u00e5r\u00f8ysundet early spring morning 4.08
\n3. The Kittiwakes of K\u00e5r\u00f8ya 5.20
\n4. The birdcliffs of Ved\u00f8y 4.37
\n5. Seagulls on the south side of Storfjellet 3.00
\n6. Midsummer in Hernykens eastern skree 5.41<\/p>\n
\n1. Ellevsnyken eastern skree 5.18
\n2. Ellevsnyken eastern skree II 5.00
\n3. A narrow pass, Hernyken nature reserve 5.41
\n4. A raft of seabirds 5.08
\n5. Puffins wheeling and swarming 6.34
\n6. Summer rain in midnightsun 6.44<\/p>\n
\nMP3 | South 4<\/a>
\nMP3 | South 5<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nDead Puffin chick: Jason Rosenberg
\nElin M\u00e1r and Almar in boat: Jason Rosenberg
\nSame for Elin recording, Jason Rosenberg
\nKittiwakes and red house Photo by AHS
\nElin M\u00e1r listening\/binaural recording session in birdmountains by Norith Eckbo<\/p>\n
\nwww.elinmar.com<\/a>
\nwww.soundcloud.com\/Leynarrecordings<\/a>
\nThe Listening Lounge – Article by Christina Kubisch<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n
\nGermany \/ 2021 \/ Gruen 204 \/ LC 09488<\/p>\n
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\nI haven’t visited the R\u00f8st archipelago, located 100 km west of northern Norway, but Elin M\u00e1r \u00d8yen Vister’s collection of soundscapes from the area grants me a fairly strong impression of what it would be like to do so. As I play the vinyl album (issued in a 300-copy run) and read the accompanying notes for its twelve pieces, the site’s soundworld comes vividly to life as I picture myself on one of its islands surrounded by site-specific birds flooding the air with vocalizations.<\/p>\n
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