I just released a collaboration album with Belgian sound artist Peter Wullen. It's called 'Trophallaxis' and consists of two abstract longform sound collages, based on combined field recordings from Belgium and the UK.
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"Trophallaxis is the exchange of food or other fluids among members of a community in social insects, such as ants or termites. It can occur through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding." ...and like trophallaxis feeding from artists' mind-to-mind - the whirring, chatting, fighting and arguing bees are always in the background in these two abstract soundscapes from Scottish sound artist Fletina & Belgian sound artist Peter Wullen.
Thálatta! Thálatta! (Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! — "The Sea! The Sea!"). We finally reached the Black Sea from Mount Theches (Θήχης) near Trebizond, not far from the coastal city of Trapezus. Like Xenophon in the Anabasis - we let the sounds wash over us.
Fletina's sound sources : field recordings taken from various towns & cities throughout the UK & audio experimentation with found objects that were recorded at home.
Peter's sound sources : beehives at Klein Begijnhof in Gent on an early Sunday morning, dripping water tab in the funeral catacombs of the Brussels/Laken cemetery, the tolling bell & priest are a sample from the epilogue of the Béla Tarr epic movie Sátántangó, translation of the priest's chant: 'the Turks are coming'.
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