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sonic sketchbooks
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sonic sketchbooks is a podcast series about sound art, art music and field recording hosted by sydney-based artist gary warner
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79 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - UTC
Around midnight of the 14th of December 2023 the Sun emitted an unusually strong solar flare - an unimaginably vast and powerful eruption of primary cosmic energy. The event was observed and monitored by terrestrial, atmospheric and space-wandering instruments of various government and scientific...
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78 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - two sketches
Over decades of field recording, I’ve grown to increasingly appreciate and utilise incidental sounds made between or around an intended sound capture. For example, walking across the dried-out forbs and grasses of a drought-effected wetland to follow a large flock of tiny red-browed finches…
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77 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - polytonal wander
I built this new composition ‘polytonal wander’ from five recent recordings using different methods and devices for each. F irstly, a new modular element in my small Eurorack mix is an ERM Polygogo polygonal synthesis generator which allows very interesting signal creation using multiple control...
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76 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - JOHN CAGE 111
John Cage - composer, artist, writer, provocateur, citizen mycologist and much more - was born 111 years ago on the 5th of September 1912. I’m publishing this 2023 episode on his birthdate, and the composition is made in homage to him and the inspiration I’ve found in his work and ideas since the...
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75 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS
This composition is built from various new recordings of encounters with insects and birds, and wind-song heard through a gap in the wall of a remote rural building, wound together with outputs from various synthesisers - modular and otherwise -, a temporary sonic-kinetic sculpture made from tins...
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74 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - pleximetries
I’ve long been collecting individual sounds of everyday objects like saucepan lids, wine glasses, tools and implements, vessels and containers. I strike the object once with something, perhaps a chopstick with a rubber band wound around one end, a wooden spoon or something else to hand, and…
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73 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - cicada song
release date: 24 january 2023 This new composition drifts across and through various sonic topologies of layered and abstracted recordings including : water boiling in an old-fashioned whistle kettle, passenger and freight jets descending over inner-city suburbs, multi-story scaffolding being...
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71 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - in a soundscape
release date: 20 december 2022 This new composition is a structuring of recent audio recordings made on national park field trips using hydrophones, contact mics and my trusty Tascam digital recorders mingled with home-studio noodlings with modular synthesisers, home-made instruments and iPad…
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70 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - adrift
release date: 13 september 2022 A small mustard tin from India, a paulownia box for a teabowl from japan, a dried starfish, limpet shells, a whirlygig made from a beer can, vehicle flattened bottle caps collected from the streets, a steel street sweeper bristle aquiver on the edge of a wooden…
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69 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - tumble
release date: 30 august 2022 R ecently I made a small kinetic instrument from a ball carved out of a champagne cork rolling around inside a rotating biscuit tin. Watching the roughly shaped ball bounce and hobble about inside the cylinder I got to thinking about the word tumble and how I’ve often...
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68 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - I couldn't find any trees
This episode is a composition titled ‘I couldn’t find any trees…’ As is often the case, I sat down at my iMac to build it from recordings I’ve made since release of the previous episode. Yesterday, I walked to a relatively remote ocean beach south of Sydney with my partner, one of my sisters, her...
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67 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - uncertainty
Lately, I’ve been thinking about uncertainty its many variants and causes - indecision, vagueness, ambiguity, fuzziness, aporia, doubt, bewilderment, terror, indeterminability, incoherence, obfuscation, chaos, deep fakery, etcetera… Uncertainty is fundamental to creative practices and a...
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66 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - overheard
release date: 19 july 2022 It’s been a while since I offered an episode built from field recordings and I had an idea about building a composition from overheard speech, from recordings made in many different contexts over the past twenty years that included or centered on speech - artist talks,...
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65 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - darkness
release date: 05 july 2022 Of late I’ve been reading about 1816, the Year Without A Summer, a global experience of sudden disruption to normative climate cycles. In 1815 Mount Tambora, a volcano in present-day Indonesia, erupted - violently - blasting millions of tons of gases and tephra into the...
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64 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - grumbling flowers
Welcome to episode 64 of the sonic sketchbooks podcast - this is your guest host, a synthesised text-to-voice software voice found on the internet. This composition - grumbling flowers - is an offering for studio listening, built from sounds derived from a few aluminium beer tins emptied of their...
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63 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - strangeness
strangeness is an excited state of matter strange particles carry the quantum number of strangeness different to zero the quantum number can be hidden in a strange/ anti-strange pair for example the mu meson strange quarks are found in subatomic particles called hadrons hadrons containing strange...
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62 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - It Is a Microphone
In a vague tangential way, this composition began in consideration of the beautiful aural strategies of the great French experimental composer Eliane Radigue. We begin in everyday life on temple grounds in Kyoto, 2014 - distinctive sounds of Japanese birds and people chatting. from somewhere that...
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61 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - vespertine
Vespertine wandering out with my recorder in a nearby park, autumn turning to winter people riding bicycles playing basketball and tennis jogging walking dogs walking home going out… in with my recorder and contact mics the apartment studio capturing sounds dropping fragments of cutup aluminium...
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60 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Eugene Carchesio
Eugene Carchesio is an artist - self-taught, self-generating, self-contained, forever producing and presenting. We’ve been friends, collaborators, colleagues, fellow travellers for roundabout four decades. Eugene lives in Brisbane, Queensland - always has - and has forged a humbly extraordinary...
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59 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - unknowns
When I finish creating one episode, I have no idea what the next episode will be. Like many artists who’ve been working for decades, I’m confident an idea for the next project will arise through being open to encounters in the world, its influences, inspirations and intrigues. This is a known...
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58 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - rivus
release date: 29 march 2022 This episode comprises an unedited 50 minute recording I made visiting two of the six venues of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney on Monday 21st of March 2022. Developed by Colombian curator and artistic director Jose Roca, and a curatorium of art workers from several Sydney...
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57 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - borderlands
This episode presents a new composition featuring pieces I’ve been making with an app called Borderlands Granular that I’ve had on successive iPads for the past couple of years. It is by far one of the best experimental sound software tools I’ve used - which may be due to the authors’...
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56 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - a john berger reading
A couple of episodes back I mentioned the writing of John Berger, how I’d been re-reading a large volume of his selected writings. That re-reading prompted me to search my bookshelves for another of his many books. This one, published in hardback in 2011 by Pantheon Books, New York, is titled...
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55 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - and I wondered
This episode is a new exploratory composition titled “And I wondered…” . It continues my investigations of immaterial time sculpture through the hand-building of sonic apertures and trajectories pieced together from meticulous manipulations of recordings of analogue sound I capture from everyday...
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54 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Labouring at Tanja
release date: 01 February 2022 This episode is built from recordings I made last week while on a brief working sojourn about 500km south of Sydney where I live. I drove to a farm owned by an old friend, a practicing architect who now also farms cattle and is regenerating bushland on expansive...
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53 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - January 2022
Somewhere underneath, above or beyond language lives music - and somewhere beyond that beyond lives sonic sketchbooks… In developing this first episode of 2022 I began with a structuralist approach, chaining together a sequence of two minute excerpts lifted from recordings I’ve made over the past...
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52 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Chordata
release date: 28 december 2021 This is the final episode of the Sonic Sketchbooks podcast for 2021. There will be an indeterminate hiatus before starting up again. If you stay subscribed, the next episode should appear for you sometime in February 2022. For this past year of 2021, I’ve been…
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51 SONIC SKECTHBOOKS - Lyra8
release date: 21 december 2021 A few months ago, a generous colleague and friend gifted me an unusual contemporary musical instrument, the LYRA 8 Organismic Synthesiser conceived and realised by Russian sound artist and visionary electronics engineer Vlad Kreimer. The Lyra and its family of other...
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50 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - soundplant
release date: 14 december2021 I’ve been occasionally working with an interesting piece of software called SoundPlant designed and maintained by Marcel Blum, self-described as “a coder, consultant, musician, and vinyl archaeologist based in New York”. I like to use softwares designed by fellow...
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49 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - quicktime mixes
Like anyone who’s worked with analogue and digital sound over a long period of time, I’ve built up a huge library of recordings across a range of categories from field recordings to unique self-built instruments, samples made by sounding found and everyday objects, digital manipulations of these...
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48 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - then
release date: 30 november 2021 Forced Audience, The Dialectic Process of Change, Another Transport to Sleep, Lament of the LionKillers, Today the World, Pace of Erosion… titles of cassette recorded sound works I made in the 1970s and 80s. This episode is an ethereal visitation from that time,...
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47 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Palimpsest
This week, in my teaching at the National Art School, I’m lecturing and assigning a project on drawing and the palimpsest. In 1845, English writer Thomas De Quincey wondered “What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain? Such a palimpsest is my brain; such a palimpsest, oh...
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46 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS
This week’s episode continues my ongoing investigations of the sonic potentials of the MakeNoise Morphagene modular synthesis module, previously featured in episodes 41 and 44. This new composition incorporates Morphagene-ic manipulations of original captured sounds made with some of my one-off...
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45 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - digital dusk
During the most recent 3-month COVID lockdown here in Sydney Australia, to maintain creative engagement I did a small project for a while titled 'digital dusk', a series of daily one minute abstract digital video works posted to my Instagram account. Each video was made by setting up a kinetic...
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44 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - fragments
Of late I’ve been getting to know the MakeNoise Morphagene modular synthesis device. The User Manual describes it as being “informed by the worlds of Musique Concrete and Microsound”, “a set of tools for creative synthesis” “ for the creation of new musical form and content, previously…
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43 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Hiroshima
With three companions I travelled to Japan in May 2018. One of the reasons for this trip was to finally visit Hiroshima, to be present and pay my respects at the site of one of the principal atrocities of the 20th century. This episode of Sonic Sketchbooks comprises excerpts from recordings I…
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42 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Drone
This weeks offering is an exploration of the sonic drone. Many musicians of many cultures and times have explored and exploited the mesmeric nature of persistent sonic presence to evoke saintly states of grace and excite stoner states of mind. Here, rather than working with instruments, I’ve...
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41 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Morphagene
release date: 12 october 2021 F requent or perhaps even occasional listeners will by now be familiar with my sonic interests - unusual combinations of slow, strange and stochastic sounds. T his weeks episode presents a series of sketches made with the small Eurorack modular synthesiser I’ve put...
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40 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - below
release date: 05 october 2021 This weeks episode is titled ‘Below’. I’ve always been captivated by the eery-strange chaotic sounds made by floating pontoons moving in response to watery energies. In mid-winter this year, I went down to a favourite pontoon that floats alongside the Sydney Opera...
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39 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - To Higher Ground
release date - 28 september 2021 This week’s composition is titled ‘To Higher Ground’. I constructed it over the past week, returning to strategies of using spoken word appropriated from diverse sources that I began with in the 1970’s when I’d cassette record voices from broadcast television and...
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38 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS Composition
This weeks composition is another generative foray into the archive, built from a selection of my field and studio recordings. The field recordings include water dripping from the gutters of a remote farmhouse outbuilding after a passing storm at 3am; heavy rain drumming the metal skin of my car,...
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37 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Sorte Muld EMF
release date: 14 september 2021 I've been collecting more Electromagnetic Frequencies or EMF from the local environment - this time scavenging sounds from various sources in the small apartment I live in. Every electronic device, source or connection will generate some form of EMF, which remains...
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36 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - COMPOSITION
This weeks episode is a new composition titled ‘a lot of unidentified sounds…’. I’ve assembled it over the past few days from recordings and generations, mostly new but a few old. It’s another of my sonic constructions or sound sculptures built to occupy, or reside in, time rather than space…
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35 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Kanazawa 25 May 2017
This week’s episode is a quiet, contemplative piece that arose from re-listening to recordings I made on the 25 May 2017 during a day of wandering in Kanazawa, an important cultural town on the west coast of Honshu Japan, about equidistant from Tokyo and Kyoto. I went there to visit two museums…
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34 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - SOMA ETHER
Some time ago I bought a curious device from SOMA the electronic sound laboratory of Ukrainian-born sonic innovator Vlad Kreimer. The device is called Ether and Vlad designed it for hearing the invisible electromagnetic frequencies that surround us but which we don’t consciously sense - we can’t...
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33 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Tetsuya Umeda workshop
This episode is an unedited recording I made, with the artists permission, of an improvised collaborative soundscape made by participants in a workshop led by japanese artist Tetsuya Umeda who had presented an hour-long solo performance a couple of nights earlier as part of the 2017 Performance...
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32 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - colourforms
release date: 10 august 2021 - Australian census day Well into the second month of another COVID-19 lockdown here in Sydney, with high daily infection rates indicating no end in sight for a while… This weeks episode presents the soundtracks to a collective series of abstract digital video…
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31 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Museum of Economic Botany
The COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney continues as does my excavation of files from the rhyzomatic strings of long neglected nested folders on an old workhorse iMac. This weeks episode presents a mix of tracks commissioned in 2014 for automated daily replay in the Museum of Economic Botany in the...
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30 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Kyoto
release date: 27 july 2021 This weeks episode is made in the fifth consecutive week of a fairly restrictive COVID19 lockdown here in Sydney and I made the program where I live in a small apartment in Redfern, on gadigal country. Wondering if and when I might ever be able to visit Japan again, I...
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29 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - lockdown
I constructed this weeks episode during the third week of a stay-at-home, shelter-in-place COVID-19 lockdown on gadigal land, in sydney australia where I live, make and work. Without access to my studio and the majority of my archived sound library, I’ve structured this episode from field...
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