Radical Murmur - Episode 2 - Resonances of Loss

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RADICAL MURMUR is a three-part sonic essay on the possibilities of sound. Close your eyes, open your ears.
Part 2: RESONANCES OF LOSS. In this episode, we listen to the sighing and groaning of a tired planet. In composer Evelien van den Broek's music, we hear field recordings of animals that no longer exist. This is how she tries to make the current "biological destruction" palpable. Peter Cusack travelled to Chernobyl and other ecological disaster zones as a "sonic journalist". What do places we know from the news but that we have never 'heard', sound like? And philosopher Salomé Voegelin reflects on how the COVID-19 crisis threw us back on ourselves, threatening to evaporate the sonic "in-between" between people. "There is no inner genius, there is only an outer connection."
RADICAL MURMUR is made in collaboration with rekto:verso, Gonzo (circus) en Collateral.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES
03:07> Fragment of "Pacific Fanfare" by Barry Truax from the double CD "The Vancouver Soundscape 1973; Soundscape Vancouver 1996".
07:54 > Fragment of "I Rainforest" from the album "Endlings" by Evelien van den Broek with field recordings by Bernie Krause. Available here.
11:44 > Fragment from the album “Autumn Day in Yellowstone” by Bernie Krause. Available here. AUTUMN DAY IN YELLOWSTONE © 2007 Wild Sanctuary. All rights reserved.
14:04 > Fragment of “V The Last Kauai ‘O ‘O Bird” from the album "Endlings" by Evelien van den Broek.
18:13 > Fragment of “IV The Blue Whale” by Van den Broek, idem.
21:49 > Fragment of the album “Rainstorm in Borneo” by Bernie Krause. Available here. RAINSTORM IN BORNEO © 1998 Wild Sanctuary. All rights reserved.
24:28 > Fragment of “II Bees” from the album "Endlings" by Evelien van den Broek with field recordings by Bernie Krause.
25:36 > Fragment of “Chernobyl Frogs” by Peter Cusack from the double album (+ publication) “Sounds from Dangerous Places”. Available here.
33:57 > Fragment of “Oilfield Soundwalk 1” by Peter Cusack, idem.
37:47 > Fragment of “Radiometer Kopachi” by Peter Cusack, idem.
41:17 > Fragment of “Cranes passing, playing voice” by Peter Cusack recorded in Berlin. Published on radio aporee.
45:09 > Fragment of “Saturday morning, bird song playback” by Peter Cusack, recorded in Berlin. Published on radio aporee.
50:06 > Fragment of “A score to start hearing the invisible” by KMRU from the album “Paint your lips while singing your favourite pop song” by Salomé Voegelin. Available here.
56:15 > Fragment of “Unheard Sound” by Siavash Aminivan from the album “Paint your lips (...)”.

All other sound clips recorded by Sjoerd Leijten.
Interviews and text: Sjoerd Leijten and Roel Griffioen
Voice: Sjoerd Leijten