IMPULSIVE HABITAT - A DIVISION OF TEST TUBE NETLABEL

September 09, 2015

Lethargy

IHab108. DAVID VÉLEZ - Letargo

Letargo (lethargy) is a sound piece that consists of five fragments of field recordings captured in the amazon jungle on July of 2015 in Brazil and Colombia. The material was recorded in locations close to creeks and ponds during different times of the day/night centering on sounds produced by birds, monkeys and frogs. Each fragment was equalized individually in order to focus on the sonorities produced by some of these animals.

The tension and the noise

IHab107. JOSÉ SOBERANES - Zipach

Zipach es una obra compuesta con paisajes sonoros de tres locaciones, involucrando sonidos aleatorios y añadiendo distintas formas de comunicación orgánica. Estas grabaciones involucran al golfo de México, el Océano Pacífico y el Caribe. En estos sitios donde pasé días de asueto, tomando registro e ideando una narrativa para jugar con el tiempo, espacio e inyectar situaciones que empujen al sigilo, la tensión y el ruido.

Compuesta, escrita y grabada en invierno del 2014 y primavera del 2015 por José Soberanes.

Audible views

IHab106. CHRIS LYNN - The rain that fell

The Rain that Fell continues the ongoing exploration of sound and image in urban and rural landscapes. These audible views reflect isolated moments (occasions) within a larger frame. The recordings vary from the banks of the Yangtze River to college classrooms.

Baobab

IHab105. JEAN-BAPTISTE MASSON - A baobab in the bush

Night and day under and near a baobab in the south african bush, Limpopo state, Mmabolela reserve.

1 Night in the open land
Mmabolela reserve, around 1AM. The mics are inside a small group of bushes, in the open land behind the baobab.

1 Dawn at the water hole
A water hole lies at a hundred meters from the baobab. It's 5AM and a small group of deers comes to vent their thirst. As the sun is appearing above the horizon, swarm of birds are flying by. Some come to the water, while cicadas wake up. I grab the mics at 7AM, the sun is already high and the temperature is increasing.

2 The baobab
A typical hot and sunny november afternoon under the baobab of Tuli. Groups of birds are playing around the mics, and a probable coqui francolin comes to feed just in front of them. The cicadas chorus resonates and turns all around, before a solitary bird takes over.

This recordings have been made during the first Sonic Mmabolela, a residency/workshop organized by Francisco Lopez and James Webb. Many thanks to them.

Sequel

IHab104. CHRIS SILVER T
Salty spots II (Ionian sea wind door dream)

Like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime, I felt compelled to go back once more to the place where, a year before, I had first attempted to record the feelings my memories stirred inside me. Perhaps it was because at the time I had disregarded the sounds of the children playing, their parents’ voices, or the cavorting breezes of the Ionian Sea, and the free rhythmic patterns they created as they danced around the objects they found in their way.

Recorded at the harbour of Aghia Kyriaki, town of Filiatra, Messinia, Western Peloponnese, August 2014.

March 02, 2015

Chapter three

IHab103. LUÍS ANTERO - O rio / The river, Vol. 3

A drone made of water. The sound of thunder over an end of Spring rain. An alarm clock set inside a modest house in an almost deserted village. There are people, not seen. Not heard. This is a mountain river running through memory. I record the sounds, traveling companions of this journey, sheltering from
the rain, in the old village oil mill, now disabled. Below, the old water mill, unusable. On the streets there’s still no one. The rain is back and with it a storm.

January 16, 2015

Cathedral

IHab102. SEBASTIANE HEGARTY - Rain choir

A site-specific sound installation created for the crypt of Winchester Cathedral, the rain choir, was composed of field-recordings taken from the guttering system of the building.
Added to these percussive voices are recordings of CO2 escaping from fragments of Cathedral limestone dissolving in acid.

December 03, 2014

43°05'33.9"N 12°34'48.5"E

IHab101. ENRICO CONIGLIO - OlivElegy

Recordings made at an olive oil mill site on the hills a few kilometers from the charming town of Assisi, Umbria (Italy). Special thanks to the nuns of Monastero Benedettino di Sant'Anna, Bastia Umbra, and Frantoio Le Vecchie Macine, Tordibetto. Coordinates are 43°05'33.9"N 12°34'48.5"E.

October 17, 2014

Hard-drive turntablism

IHab100. YANN LEGUAY - unstatic

For Impulsive Habitat's 100th release we wanted to publish something slightly unusual for what the label is known for.

Through five years and ninety nine releases we have been making an effort to present a broad variety of approaches to the process of recording and capturing sounds, and this is exactly what we will continue doing.

Yann Leguay likes to wreck and explore different storage and reproduction sound devices. He pushes turntables, cd players and hard drives to their limits abusing them in a quest to produce sounds. 'unstatic' seems emphasized on textures, repetition and rhythm presenting loads of static and heavy loops that offer a strong contemplative and hypnotic experience to the listener.

Thanks to all the artists and listeners that have been part of the first 100 IH releases. Now back to work.

October 08, 2014

Obsolescence

IHab099. SEI MILLIGAN - The last boat builders of Belfast

Whilst recording interviews for a BBC Radio Documentary, I became fascinated by the unique sonic resonances emitted from the place. The Boat Yard is nestled between the Sydenham Train station, Sydenham Bypass, the George Best City Airport, and the beautifully serene Victoria Park in East Belfast.

I decided to return and capture the sounds of the Boat Yard that evening.

August 06, 2014

A Year

IHab098. LUDWIG BERGER
A year's hours behind my father's house

The material of this work is based on a static recording: I installed a microphone under the roof of my father's house in a small village in Alsace (France) for one year. Each day, I recorded one minute of sound on the hour at four different intervals: midnight, morning, noon and evening. I subsequently selected one recording per week for each of the intervals.

July 12, 2014

Artifacts

IHab097. DAVID VÉLEZ - Quietud y movimiento

Movement, change, stillness, objects, environments, memory, capture.

June 29, 2014

Changeless

IHab096. PEDRO CHAMBEL - Nothing ever happens
Chance music number 1

Recorded in November 2013.
Pedro Chambel – Electronics

June 07, 2014

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IHab095. DARIUS CIUTA - Zi - um ( r )

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May 20, 2014

Four embedded speakers

IHab094. MARC BEHRENS - Recurrent

Recurrent was originally presented on March 7, 2011 as a sound installation in the Paiva River at Espiunca (Arouca municipality), Portugal (40° 59′37.14″N,8° 12′49.77″W) during the event “Paivascapes #1 – Paiva River Sound Festival”. The installation consisted of four speakers embedded in foam plastic shapes floating in the river and was the outcome of a residency at Binaural/Nodar (São Pedro do Sul municipality), Portugal.

May 08, 2014

Sharing

IHab093. MIGUEL ISAZA, MISE_EN_SCENE -Shay Nassi-
Selected fragments

Selected fragments is the result of a collaboration between Mise_En_Scene (Shay Nassi from Israel) and Miguel Isaza (Colombia), a work created from processing field recordings in an intuitive way, shaping a story between different sound fragments shared virtually between the two countries.

May 01, 2014

Environmental Studies

IHab092. DALLAS SIMPSON - The South Downs

In this work I have brought together, through performance, elements of environmental, material, historic, cultural and symbolic significance on a number of different levels.
-Dallas Simpson

April 23, 2014

Hagia Kyriaki

IHab091. CHRIS SILVER T - Salty spots

This recording took place during the summer of 2013 at Hagia Kyriaki of Filiatra, a small harbour on the west of the Peloponnese. The sounds of the sea crashing onto the rocks brought back memories of my childhood, when, as a little boy, I used to go on hikes there with my parents and relatives, foraging for salt, shellfish and seagreens. These are sounds that I will never forget for as long as I live, so it was inevitable that on revisiting that place, I would feel a strong urge to record and preserve them.

March 22, 2014

Patagónica

IHab090. TOMÁS MIGUEL - Lobería vol. I

First volume in a series of recordings captured at La Lobería since 2010. La Lobería is a Patagonic beach where a large cliff divides the arid tableland from the Atlantic shore.

March 05, 2014

Submerged

IHab089. JEPH JERMAN, TONY WHITEHEAD - Underwater

Improvisations with underwater natural objects. Recorded with JrF hydrophones in rock pools at Ness Beach and Dart River, Devon, UK and in small pools in a desert wash, Arizona. The final mixes were recorded onto a master tape, which was then submerged in Dart River for a period of time. What you hear is from that tape after it dried out.

February 20, 2014

A film that does not exist

IHab088. LANCE AUSTIN OLSEN, PEDRO CHAMBEL,
BRUNO DUPLANT - Ce que la nuit ne dit pas

Initially a simple musical project attempt, the two proposed pieces were quickly transformed, obviously, in a soundtrack to a film that does not exist. Today, I believe, hang over both compositions the spectrum of a medium-length film from Andrei Tarkovsky or an animated film by David Lynch. Now up to you to affix/create your own images, real or imaginary.
-Bruno Duplant.

February 06, 2014

Environmental

IHab087. MECHA / ORGA -Yiorgis Sakellariou- - 30:13

Environmental recordings and composition. Sonic material recorded in London throughout 2013. Additional sounds were recorded in Gdansk, Poland in June 2013 during the Sound Around residency project.
-Yiorgis Sakellariou

January 23, 2014

On-site testimonials

IHab086. FRANCISCO MEIRINO - Knowing more how than why

Untreated recordings from on-site testimonials archives.
Assembled and mastered at Shiver Mobile 2013.
-Francisco Meirino

January 13, 2014

Field abuse

IHab085-1. CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI
Field abuse Volume 1: Helicopters

IHab085-2. CLAUDIO CURCIOTTI
Field abuse Volume 2: Muezzin / Imam

Claudio Curciotti presents a work splitted in two volumes where he explores his views of sound, culture and society with a series of vivid field recordings captured on very specific and revealing circumstances.

January 03, 2014

Uninterrupted

IHab084. JUAN MANUEL CASTRILLO - Horizontales

It refers to those uninterrupted, continuous sounds coming from urban environments. Birds, covered wagons, horses and street peddler chantings with many others used to compound large cities sonic atmospheres before industrial development.
-Juan Manuel Castrillo