Sun Araw was recommended to me from my colleague EGYPTRIXX and has been on heavy rotation for a while now, click on the image to download.






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This is a follow up to my fascination with horns and acoustic amplifiers, which have been a strong influence in
my designing of works such as the recently commisioned foghorns for the Futuresonic festival. Manchester.
and Acorn Electronics exhibited in Glasgow International 2005.



Artist Matt Hope has created HornMassive, a 2-ton, 2000-watt steel and aluminum horn sound system on wheels.
As far as I can tell it's mostly been used at a few raves but hopefully a mutual friend can introduce him to the guys from Konono No 1 at some point.



This massive horn reminded me instantly of the wonderful pictures of Japanese War Tubas and various acoustic location devices
used during WWI and WWII to detect the noise of distant enemy planes approaching. In England, the preferred devices for this sort of
enterprise were concrete sound mirrors which dotted the UK's southern coast and many of which are still standing today.

A few years back, Danish artist Lise Autogena embarked on a new project to create a pair of contemporary sound mirrors
that will allow people across the English channel to converse with each other, an especially ambitious (and seemingly impossible)
goal considering that Matt Hope's 2000 watt device is touted as being able to be heard 1 kilometer away.

Says Autogena in a 2001 Guardian article



"I love the fact that it's such an awkward, failed technology, which hasn't been covered up... New acoustic technology in America
can isolate sounds. So when you stand at a certain point in the mirror, you'll be able to hear the voice of the person standing by the mirror in France -
but only at an exact spot in the mirror. Move just a centimetre and the sound will disappear."

Link to Autogena's Sound Mirrors Project

The project processes a sound file submitted by the user through an unused tank of 11 x 7 of reinforced concrete built in 1032 at the central station in Obenhauser (Germany.) By installing a linux server, some audio software, microphones and speakers right inside the tank, Tank-FX allows you to upload up to 60 seconds of audio material. It is played immediately in the water tank. The surface of the tank causes a particular reverberation which is picked up by the stereo mics. The reverberated version is recorded and mixed with the original one at a radio set that you can set in advance. The outcome is then converted in the desired output format for you to download and use.

The website is in german but there's an how to in english at FieldMuzik

There's some samples here

A work by German artists Sandro Catallo and Markus Cremers.

Plan a Sonic Journey + Share Sounds



SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field
recording and phonography. On this site, you can plan a sonic journey
through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search
the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain
places. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your
recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution
license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website.

Phonography is the art of recording sounds from the environment around
us, with an emphasis on the unintentional sounds which often go
unnoticed in our daily lives.

On the "Book" page, users can create a SoundTransit by choosing a
location of departure and arrival, as well as several stopovers along
the way. Based on your selections, an intinerary with details about the
selected sounds and a soundfile are generated, which can be downloaded
as an MP3 or sent to friends.