the Field

by Steve Norton

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Requiem, in memoriam twelve recently extinct species 10:48
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field: alarum, implication (v2.1) 15:50
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field: snowfall (aspect 1) 28:43
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Requiem, in memoriam twelve extinct species

Sounds originally recorded in the United States, Mexico, Guatamala, Costa Rica and Guam between 1935 and 2014. (These recordings were made by many intrepid individuals; none of them were made by me.)

Composition and installation completed May 3, 2018. This stereo recording of Requiem was made in situ in the Fernald AP/PE Space, IMRC Center, University of Maine, Orono, Maine on May 9, 2018.

Requiem, in memoriam twelve recently extinct species (2018) is a four-channel electroacoustic composition which plays through speakers in an empty and preferably darkened space. The sounds in this composition will never again be heard in the wild. All of the species audible in this piece—ten birds and two frogs—are now extinct. You are able to hear these sounds because the creatures that made them went extinct during the era of recorded sound; this is a unique moment in the history of human-driven extinction.

To read more about Requiem, please visit requiem.rednotebook.org


field: alarum, implication (v2.1)

Six-channel field recording made on the Mmabolela reserve, Maasstroom, Limpopo Province, Republic of South Africa on November 25, 2018. Muchas gracias a Francisco López.

Composition and installation completed on May 11, 2019 in Orono, Maine. Revised version 2.1 completed on October 23, 2019. This stereo mix was made on November 23, 2019.

field: alarum, implication (2019) is a six-channel sound installation, consisting of an electronic music composition played through speakers in an empty and preferably darkened space. These six channels create an aural ‘snapshot’ of this particular place at this particular time, while revealing more sound than would meet the ear of a listener who was standing at the spot. The integrity of their temporal relationship has been maintained throughout the piece.

To read more about field: alarum, implication, please visit pf.rednotebook.org/things/alarum/


field: snowfall (aspect 1)

Recorded during a snowstorm in Orono, Maine, on January 20, 2019. Composition completed January 29, 2019.

field: snowfall (aspect 1) (2019) is a soundscape composition created from a single, continuous six-channel field recording made during a January snowstorm in Orono, Maine. The recording captures sound from an area only a few meters across in the back yard of my house using a heterogeneous group of input devices: contact mics and hydrophones as well as standard audio microphones. The form of the piece is almost entirely inherent in the original recording; I applied only mixing and modest sound manipulation.

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released December 2, 2021

Steve Norton: recording, mixing and processing
N.B.Aldrich: mastering

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SPU is a collection of various music and sound projects.
It was originally founded by Duane Ingalls and N.B.Aldrich in the early 1970s as an exploratory collaboration.

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