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Occasional posts on subjects like field recording, London sounds past and present, other websites worth looking at, articles in the press, and news of sound-related events.
Occasional posts on subjects like field recording, London sounds past and present, other websites worth looking at, articles in the press, and news of sound-related events.
Posted by IMR on 03 May 2011
A NICE EMAIL came the other day from Regina Burbach, a Bremen-based field recordist, composer and radio feature maker. She was among the first field recordists to put some of her work up on Soundcloud and I first stumbled across it while looking for recordings of frogs.
It was clear that a lot of work had gone even into seemingly straightforward recordings like this from Sri Lanka:
There are also some more complex, layered compositions, some of which might be described in a hurry as dreamlike, but are probably closer to a sound version of magical realism.
As Regina sums up her way of working:
Now she has her own website called The ballonist in the desert is dreaming, featuring more of her recordings as well as posts in German and English. Well worth visiting.
Hello Ian,
Usually I come here at night time, and last night again I found another of your gems, “Singing beggar Drury Lane”. That short encounter is very moving. Then I browsed to ‘blog’ and …, what can I say? I had to look twice … –
Thank you so much, Ian, for giving such an appreciation for my work. I feel honored to see it being featured by you here and in the way you do it because I have tremendous admiration for your amazing project and your recordings and soundscapes. They have such an outstanding quality and that very special sensibility. Thank you for being so generous, Ian. You really made my day!
Posted by Regina Burbach on 06 May 2011
That’s very kind of you to say so, Regina.
I don’t know what happened to that beggar, I’ve never seen him since in that part of the city centre.
Posted by IMR on 12 May 2011