dear radio earth listeners,
we just set up one box in the north of germany on the island of rügen. (https://goo.gl/maps/UgePg9UYctvpDPWE9)

Does it stream already?

we carry the box with us in the frame of the project Sonic Islands.

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SONIC ISLANDS – Mirrored perceptions between Tierra del Fuego + Rügen
SONIC ISLANDS focuses on the various auditory aspects of the TERRA IGNOTA (http://terra-ignota.net) project and is part of TIF 2023/24. We are interested in the meaning of sound as a semantic system and as a form of artistic articulation. Questions about origin, identity, intercultural understanding but also about perception, legibility and interaction with the environment, social processes and structures beyond visually connoted reference systems are the subject of our joint research. Listening and making audible to stimulate changes of perspective in the process of artistic research and knowledge production as well as in communicating to an audience.

The research process will be conducted in Tierra del Fuego (March 2023) and on the geographically and culturally mirrored island of Rügen (September 2023) – both regions lie exactly on the same latitude (54°36’20.5 “S / 54°36’20.5 “N). The results are presented on the opposite sides in the different local contexts – literally drawing a straight connecting line through the globe. The themes connect both sites and are communicated through concrete site-specific sound installations, interventions, performances and listening essays.

some bigger animals seem to move trougth the bushes...

Hi Carsten, what is the link to the stream?

sorry: https://radio.aporee.org:8443/mobilemic10

:)

deep pulsing drone from afar, sounds like a ship?

a horse (?) is approaching, sounds great

strange and interesting contrast between these pulsing drones and the quiet nature surrounding

@carsten_stabenow & SONIC ISLANDers: I've read through your field trip logs, it's an impressive approach to reveil the complex pattern of a territory. I wonder how and to which extend sound and field recording as a praxis did help to get an understanding the landscape, it's natural and cultural conditions, past and present?

the only explanation at hand is the re-gasification terminal in lubmin - which is basically opposite of our place accross the greifswalder bodden in 20-30 km distance. https://www-ndr-de.translate.goog/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Das-raetselhafte-Brummen-Aerger-am-LNG-Terminal-Lubmin,dorfstadtkreis146.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

update: the drone noise is not the re-gasification terminal – it is the operation of the ship wich is building the new pipeline to mukran port:
https://www-tagesschau-de.translate.goog/inland/regional/mecklenburgvorpommern/ndr-castoro-10-verlegeschiff-auf-dem-weg-nach-lubmin-100.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

the mic #10 is now on a small lake, not far from the previous location but with a different soundscape - frogs, waterbirds and millions of moskitos

Makes a difference. Really divers morning mix now of calls of small and not so small birds, insects and wings very close, a fainth dronelike sound far away and once in a while a plane or a lonely car passing in the distance.

why do we indentify that deep drone as distant? Is it because of the landscape context Carsten gave us, or is it because of the redundancy of that sound, its lack of fine-grain pattern? Anyway it's creating the depth of space for me while listening, sort of barrier which separates the nearby diversity from the horizon.

maybe because we have no idea about the intensity of the sound at the source. here we cant see it, even with good view we can’t see the other coast at this moment.

Morning! From Amsterdam

Morning from Rügen, did anybody also just hear these sounds as if two small stones where hit together for a while?

Not yet

yes I did, and I think it was the call of Sylvia curruca, Klappergrasmücke, Lesser whitethroat

Ah thank you super interesting!

https://xeno-canto.org/explore?query=klappergrasm%C3%BCcke
check "Ruf" (call), not "Gesang" (song), which is quite different

‘Braamsluiper’ in Dutch. Can be translated to Blackberry sneaker

there is it again

the new location of mic10 is in the center of the island of rügen at Grosser Jasmunder Bodden ((54.4834419, 13.4855471)

thanks carsten,..I like very much the extra info ..that is a good way to use the chat to accompanying the stream..for me a very inviting way to engage with the stream

The forest sounds like a big hall

a bit more context around mobilemic#10 can be found here: http://terra-ignota.net/2023/09/10/radio-earth/

a woodpecker is at work now

woodpecker and some nuthatch (Kleiber in german) nearby. sort of rush hour on the Autobahn added another industrial/infrastructure drone to the scene it seems.

O'er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
...
I sometimes wonder what J.W.Goethe would see and hear these days.

I also wonder how connectable our experience and understanding of nature is to that of previous generations, let's say 18th/19th century. Where we (I guess in Germany at least...) take much of our notions of nature from.

Can't help, but for me these constant low frequencies we hear in this stream always evoke a negative horizon, sort of limit, or barrier. Is that because of my ambivalent romantic disposition? ;)

military aircraft in the air.

interesting contrast between the jets and the wings of birds flying over.

Yes, those planes certainly sound ominous. This is a very good location for hearing the weight of our current military/industrial mind set. It's not close or in your face, but constantly present, an unchanging, relentless, backdrop to the the natural sounds when they occur. A soundscape of vulnerability and the knife edge we have reached in our relationship to the environment.

Thanks Peter, "soundscape of vulnerability" describes it very well. That term should be in the radio.earth description, it's a concept..

Vulnerability yes. But we also hear endurance, resistance, conflict, indifference, connectedness and much more. To put everything under one heading is may be too simple.

yes, sure, you're right. It's just that I always try to get closer to what this is all about ;) I'd love to hear more thoughts on this..

thank you all for your thoughts and comments, we’ll answer some questions later - before my battery dies - the new location is south west part of the island on the half island Ummanz. the place is called Klein Kubitz. at this very moment you can hear some ploughing across the bay.

https://radio.aporee.org:8443/mobilemic10 is placed in a birch hain behind the dyke.

there is a train track close by

It is present both the drone and the jets, but for me the overall sensorial presence of these places and environment Rügen softens it in a way. Even the presence stays in the mind after once heard and the many other signes of the ongoing infrustructural more close and more remotes activities and consequences. - Thanks a lot for all your attentive listening it is very enrichring the perception and reflections here on site

i was just going to write something similar, but there is also a very inavoidable visual layer

deer in a distance, the rutting season has started

yes, many deers, in fact we used often animal passes to get in to the deep underbush in order to place the mic

some smaller animal is strolling around the microphone

i agree that it is painful and it makes me angry and impatient because of the knowing presence through all these signs and traces. But regarding Peters I question i perceive somehow the acoustic "monitoring" via the microfone confronts and provokes this more then being on-site inside the multisensorial . But doing both, listening to the mics at different places in turns, realising through the extended senses otherwise a bit more hidden phenomana and further traveling, walking and exploring the island in different modalities is a very strong mix and experience

yes, thats true - i think without the mobilemic monitoring we would not have encountered it that way. the long duration listening is also a different sensation than occasional fieldrecordings (when you extend your ears with microphones)

what I find interesting in ol' Goethe's Faust is the ending of pt2: he goes through all the magic, sorcery, witchcraft, devilry, telluric spirituality, to finally build a dam that takes land from the sea. He became an engineer. The creation of new land was obviously possible only with the help of technical innovations that seemed like magic to the ancients.
("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke)

yes, this is really an interesting field radio experience. I like the fact that it adds something to your perception and engagement with the landscape.

sounds like light rain?

Like here this morning

Very nice crows

the new location of mobilemic#10 is now Prora - north-east shore of Rügen.
the mic is in a forrest close to the ruined part of the Kdf building (northern end) between building and beach.

Amazing location

morning ambience w/ rain and a deep drone

Yeah! Such an interesting place

that constant drone ist more present than on previous locations. Does it have the same source?

Thanks for this…

listening to in at nigth we had the same impression. during the day it could be probably mix with sounds from the near by port of Mukran.

did the wind change direction? sounds like the nearby autobahn

definitely wind is comming up more, street is not close it could be the baltic sea

interesting. I enjoy listening to the sea, but not heavy traffic, though they don't sound that different from a distance. brown noise magic..

stronger winds now, up to 21kmh

the new location of mobilemic#10 is now Kap Arkoma - the most notthern point of Rügen. the mic is in a small forrest here:

that was a pretty intense helicopter...

yes, the location is far away from the source (lubmin) plus the wind direction changed. even down in the south of the island we can hardly catch it now.
but we went over to Lubmin port the other day to see and hear the regassification ship. we could confirm it clearly as the source of the drone we heared the other days so dominantly via the radio earth stream.

hi carsten, how far are the streaming locations from Lubmin port. just to get some idea of how far away the drone can be heard.

hi peter, hrre you can find a map with location and distances: http://terra-ignota.net/2023/09/14/a-mysterious-hum-comparable-snippets/

unfortunately we are offline at our current location