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I love recording the sounds around me (also called phonography) - and then using them to create collages, music and soundscapes. Imagine for a minute how differently the world must have sounded 100 years ago! So why not record actual, natural sonic snapshots of the world like a photographer. Today we can, and many of us do, capture the sounds of our everyday lives for documentary, research or artistic purposes.

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Here you will find some nice and interesting audio examples:

“Electric generator improvisation” recorded deep in the mountain of an old brewery in bavaria. There we discovered a big hall (which was about 40 meters deep underground) with some great reverbation. In the moment we wanted to record some stuff there an electric generator started abruptly and we didn`t know what to do. So we decided to improvise to the tone of the generator. I also added some doppler effects to give the whole improvisation a kind of interesting movement.

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“Electromagnetic Fields” recorded in a bavarian brewery. I used a special microphone built by myself which transforms electromagnetic fields into audible frequencies. Here you can listen to different sounds of computers and machines which I found in the brewery.

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“Bees” extreme close up recording. Here I recorded a beeshive with a stereo mic set up which was pretty interesting to me. You can hear a lot of bees sitting in the front of their hive trying to get enough fresh air into it…….like little fan machines.

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“Concert warm-up soundscape” recorded during the warm-up session with lots of singers, dancers and musicians. Call me crazy but this part of the concert was much more interesting to me than the concert itself.

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“Diner” recorded at a hotel with lots of people having diner and talking about…..don`t know. Just try to listen!

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“Inside the machines I” recorded at a carpenter`s shop. What you will hear is the switch-on and switch-off sequence of one of the machines there with some kind of crescendo and tonal change.

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“Adhesive foil” extreme close up recording. Through the short distance of the microphones it sounds very similar to a campfire.

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“Fountain” is what it says. I found this this very interesting fountain in a small village in Swabia. It sounded very interesting to me - somewhere between bubbling, gurgling and whooshing in the midst of a gap which gives the whole audio file some strange reverberation.