On Air - On Site : 48 Hours of Radio Art

Aired on April 15th 19:30 CEST 2023
Defense for Coherence of the Soul
Genre: Field Recording
Duration: 30 min
Sounds gathered from the Amazon rainforest outside Iquitos, Peru in January 2022.

Airing on May 25th 08:00 CEST
ASAKUSA
Genre: Soundscape Composition
Duration: 30 min
“Asakusa” is a response to my first visit to Japan in February of 2023, staying in the Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo, with its river and elevated highway and frenetically busy temple. I don’t know why I chose Asakusa for my first visit, but then again, why not? Knowing nothing about the layout of Tokyo, it made as much sense as anything for a place to start. The piece is composed first from field recordings from the area, arranged to form a narrative structure, then layered with acoustic/electric guitar and noise from a Landscape Stereo Fields device. Given that the base layer of field recordings is in discrete movements, the more conventionally musical elements follow this, making the piece more a suite of short chapters that form a whole than a single, durational piece, as I’m more typically prone toward. It captures, I think, some of the chilly brightness of late winter in that part of the city, heard through the naiveté of an enthusiastic, if somewhat exhausted, first-time visitor.

Featuring:

Brian Short

Brian is an author, musician, former filmmaker and motion graphics designer, and a graduate of the Institute of Sonology’s One Year Course (2019). His published writings include the literary science fiction novel New People of the Flat Earth (2018) and memoir of paranormal experiences The Seventh Dead: the UFO and the Underworld (2022) for which he is currently producing an audiobook.

His sound work can be found on his bi-weekly podcast of original compositions “Numinosum Radio” available through various podcast channels and CAMP Radio. His hobbies include the studies of astrology, Jungian psychology and plant medicine, and he roasts his own coffee. He loves animals but has none, and currently splits his time between the Pacific Northwest region of the US and Chiang Mai, Thailand.