Gathering Silence
by Audio Obscura
59 Perlen
59 Perlen
Very nice ambient soundscapes ... perfect for calming down!
Favorite track: Gathering Silence.
Scott
Scott
Field recordings help me to experience and think of the world in a different (i.e. non-visual) way, much as haiku prompts me to see and consider things from other perspectives. A thoughtful release.
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Gathering Silence
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At Sebalds Grave
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Time Lapse Sunrise
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Medieval Stone
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Abandoned Church
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about
Microphone in hand,
I sit inside the old church,
Gathering silence.
(Haiku written by Ian Joyce)
Gathering Silence by Audio Obscura is Naviar's first solo release of 2019.
Recording as Audio Obscura, Neil spent 3 years making field recordings in desolate churches in rural Norfolk (UK), a process through which he realised that “mindfulness can come through sound recording - through listening rather than the breath”.
“In July 2015 my family and I moved from London to rural north Norfolk. Our house was about a mile down a lane surrounded by fields and past the lane was a small village called Stratton Strawless, with a lovely old country church. I walked there a lot that first summer, often with our baby in a pushchair and took my digital sound recorder to record the old harmonium I had noticed in the corner of the church. On that trip I also recorded the church resonances and used contact mics on any suitable surfaces.
Getting to know Norfolk I realised that the writer W.G Sebald was buried not too far away and so made a trip and made a field recording at his grave at St. Andrews church. A few months later I made some recordings in Norwich Cathedral and so, without realising it, I started a little collection of Norfolk Churches. By the end of 2015 I decided to make it a project; to visit and document in sound recordings some of the rural churches, both inside and around the graveyards.
I sit inside the old church,
Gathering silence.
(Haiku written by Ian Joyce)
Gathering Silence by Audio Obscura is Naviar's first solo release of 2019.
Recording as Audio Obscura, Neil spent 3 years making field recordings in desolate churches in rural Norfolk (UK), a process through which he realised that “mindfulness can come through sound recording - through listening rather than the breath”.
“In July 2015 my family and I moved from London to rural north Norfolk. Our house was about a mile down a lane surrounded by fields and past the lane was a small village called Stratton Strawless, with a lovely old country church. I walked there a lot that first summer, often with our baby in a pushchair and took my digital sound recorder to record the old harmonium I had noticed in the corner of the church. On that trip I also recorded the church resonances and used contact mics on any suitable surfaces.
Getting to know Norfolk I realised that the writer W.G Sebald was buried not too far away and so made a trip and made a field recording at his grave at St. Andrews church. A few months later I made some recordings in Norwich Cathedral and so, without realising it, I started a little collection of Norfolk Churches. By the end of 2015 I decided to make it a project; to visit and document in sound recordings some of the rural churches, both inside and around the graveyards.
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released March 21, 2019
Written, produced and performed by Neil Stringfellow
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Mastered by SoLow
Design and cover art by Ewa Goral
Written, produced and performed by Neil Stringfellow
soundcloud.com/audio-obscura-music
Mastered by SoLow
Design and cover art by Ewa Goral
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