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Chris Watson: “Winter Flags” (Massed knot roost on shingle bank, Snettisham, Norfolk)
From the album Outside the Circle of Fire (1998)
Sheffield-born Chris Watson was a founding member of the seminal experimental outfits Cabaret Voltaire and the Hafler Trio. He gave up music (in this limited sense) around 1990 to begin working in sound recording for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Since 1996, he has released four full-length albums of his field recordings made in locations all over the world.
These recordings can be heard as an auditory counterpart to the footage featured in outstanding nature documentaries such as Planet Earth or The Private Lives of Plants, which has profoundly sensitized us to the fascinating lives of plants and animals. Whether listened to as a non-representative “sound object” in the sense of Pierre Schaeffer or used to imaginatively evoke distant environs, these remarkable recordings enable us to experience otherwise inaccessible dimensions of the sounding universe.
Played 121 time(s).
August 23, 2010, 5:19pm
