Show Notes
Bodies Extend Themselves Toward a Breathtaking Absence of Limits
Earth.FM has the pleasure and honour to announce a new work with multidisciplinary artist, field recordist, and DJ, Cameron Randall.
Cameron’s practice involves composing assemblages of field recordings, electro-acoustic sound, sampling, synthesis, AI models, and digital processing. His previous work has involved sculpture, algorithms, sound, moving image, text, and installation, while his Listening With radio series is broadcast every month on Resonance FM.
In this sound piece, Cameron takes us on a journey across the planet with an evocative, intense, surprising, and utterly beautiful sound montage of Earth.FM recordings made during this Solstice season.
In his own words:
"This piece was created from field recordings made by a number of international field recordists around this time of the year. These recordings are so rich and diverse that I was immensely inspired by their depth and detail. I am interested in the remixing, morphing, and translation of sound—where the audio both retains its original sonic quality and also becomes something new. Every sound you hear in this piece originates from the initial recordings provided to me. The origins of some sounds are obvious; some are more opaque. This is a line I often like to blur and play with. Thank you so much to Melissa Pons for commissioning me to do the piece for Earth.FM."
To work creatively with precious natural soundscapes is an exercise of affection and appreciation for our world. We truly hope that his cosmic piece will inspire you in many ways.
You can also listen to the original field recordings:
Jan Brelih:
‘Cave Entrance in the Balkans’
‘Dusk Cicadas: Usun Apau Ancient Forest’
‘Falling Snow in the Forest’
‘Frog Echoes’
‘Gentle Waves of Black Sea’
‘Talking Bamboo’
Serge Bulat:
‘Winds of Onemo’
Rafael Diogo:
‘Where the Wild Things Whisper’
Ezra Gray:
‘Crook tn the River’
‘Night Time in Sloe Copse Wood’
Tom Kelly:
‘A Sandstorm in Death Valley’
Gina Lo:
‘Rolling Pebbles at the Glass Cove’
Andy Martin:
‘Golden Mantled Howlers at Dawn’
‘Midnight Insect Chorus Near Corcovado’
Phil Mill:
‘A Very Close Wolf’
Martha Mutiso:
‘Amphibian Chorus’
‘Chorus in the Amani Nature Forest Reserve’
Melissa Pons:
‘In the Valley – Countryside of Santo Antão’
Melissa Pons and Jocelyn Robert:
‘Ebb Current in Rocky Shore’
Ivo Vicic:
‘Snow Storm with Powerful Thunder’
Gregor Vida:
‘Wind, Squeaking Tree and Light Birds’
George Vlad:
‘Morning in Zimbabwe Village’
More from Wind Is the Original Radio
The Earth's orbit around the sound finds itself at the point where we, from our planet, measure the sun's relative location exactly above the Equator's, making its way South. This marks the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox and the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
Solstice comes from the Latin solstitium - sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still): the moment when the sun appears to pause in its movement. A brief illusion of stillness. The longest day, the fullest expansion of light, and yet, from this very point, transformation has already begun. The brightest moment already carries the beginning of its own disappearance. Gathering recordings captured during different solstices, across distant places and years, this mix follows movements of appearance, disappearance, and return. Each recording holds a specific moment of listening, a fragment of a landscape that has already changed, a trace of something that cannot happen twice in the same way. Some recordings have been split and reintroduced at different moments, creating small cycles inside the composition. They disappear and resurface, carrying the memory of their previous occurrence while being transformed by their new surroundings. Like seasons, tides, or the movement of light, repetition becomes a way of sensing change rather than sameness. Different environments slowly orbit around each other: distant temporalities briefly aligning, moments of stillness revealing movement, and sounds returning as reminders that nothing ever truly stands still.
Welcome to the wind is the original radio podcast!
This hour long mix comprises of field recordings made on and around Spring Equinoxes of various years. It takes you down through the Northern Hemisphere – from my sitting room in East London to a cottage balcony in the tropical forests of Borneo. Listen for Slovenian jackals, Polish moor frogs, a Himalayan shepherd herding sheep, a hippopotamus getting ready for the night in Sierra Leone and choirs of birds singing across the globe.
We are delighted to share a special set by artist Asa 808, a 2-hour journey ideal to softly immersive oneself in the nature sounds, instruments and spoken word.