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digital soundwalks

"The less our attention to our environment is perturbed by thoughts, the more detailed and enriched with beauty it can manifest itself in our perceptions. Quiet-minded, yet full attentive and mind-wandering-free listening to the present environment is for me a central attitude in doing field recording. It fosters a style of listening that broadens auditory perception towards the spontaneous soundscape that is generated by all the processes encapsulated in that space. To experience this as deeply and as complete as possible. I would argument that in order to come to such a state of listening that it requires to be non-judgemental towards the experience, whatever it may be. To listen to each sound beyond its categorical recognition. To hear into the relationship of their seemingly random succession of eachother. Waving forth and back from the sonic sea of soundwaves you will found yourself to be embedded in. In and out of this sonic texture, in and out silence. For me, both making them, as well as listening to them -both in and out of context- field recording almost seems to evolve towards a kind of meditation practice. Something that enriches through elimination. Something that learns to recognize beauty in simplicity. Something that nurtures appreciation towards the ordinary moment-to-moment environment.

The progressive accumulation of digital soundwalks presented on this page are a selection of field recordings that will provide you with the possibility of "doing a soundwalk at home". Most of the recordings are recorded binaurally, so when listening to them with headphones and eyes closed the experience can arise of actually being there."