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Are you ready to share ears?
Recording is sharing ears. I share my ears for you, who is somewhere else, to listen. To do so, I break present relationships and make new ones.
The sounds leave their environmental context and become, in your mind’s ear, beautiful new stories and experiences that, hopefully, help you connect.
For example, The planetary walk in Lauwersoog (Dutch), where you can experience the sounds of other planets, and The ecological walk in Zernike, where you can hear the sounds of nature’s past (Dutch and English).
But in this beautifying and widening of reality, I still find a disconnect—
between you, the listener, and me, who is not truly present,
and between us and the always-changing environment.
I take and stop time to build a monument, and I leave it behind for others to find.
At the children’s festival in the Hortus, where I helped with the soil microphones, and in other soil happenings, I found another way.
When going outdoors with young and old to uncover the unheard, eyes light up and smiles apear. They listen with wonder to the soil life, to the insects, and say things like:
“They are so cute.”
“My God, this is happening all the time in my compost.”
“I can hear them smack.”
“best asmr ever.”
“I didn’t know they made sound.”
“This is amazing.”
We Renske de Jonge of sience linx a
and I, Douw-Jan Schrale, were spending a whole day next to a rotting tree, letting the public listen to the sound of bugs eating wood,
While also inviting children to crumble pieces of wood between their hands, co-creating soil.
While sitting there and teaching, about dead a story of life unfolded.
We found a tiny tree rooting between the rotting base of the old one, and I felt a wave of excitement—the life cycle was turning in front of our eyes, from tree to soil to tree. What a gift to give away!
After the festival, it felt like I made a new friend—a tree friend that was both living and dead, and that I got to know by sharing its story with so many people. And for a while, I longed back to this space,
a place I normally would just pass.
You might think now Get me a soilmicrophone and yes you can.
(over here ) (or here)
But why let your self be limited to this technology. co-exploration can be done with many other instrument.
you can
,make, borrow, or Buy
a blind fold,
a batdetector,
water, or binaural microphone
or use your phone and our tips.
and go outside to discover and share
The secret of wild sound together
( use headphones for best effect)
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