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Music archive account. Main account @icraigepps . I slip into the sea sometimes, buoy myself & listen to the whistling skies. 🚣‍♀️ subsonics+harmonics

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I’m excited to be a part of a new field recording series with NTS Radio just announced today. @NTS_radio

It features a 30 minute recording of young nightingales singing at the height of spring in Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Saint Louis, France at 2 am.

This marks the 10 year anniversary of these recordings, where I was granted special permission to walk deep into the sanctuary and listen in to these elaborate mating songs. The nightingale has close to 200 different types of songs- they vary so much that you can hear them hitting some real jazz moments throughout. Just listen at the 2 minute mark and you’ll hear it.

You can read more about it in my previous post and on Bandcamp.

I owe a deep gratitude to the joint research teams from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences for their assistance in finding the best spots with the best singers.
Never mind that it was a quarter of mile trek through a stinging nettle field, that I fell in a few times, or that it was a favorite grub hunting spot for the boar 🐗 late at night. I had quite a few run ins. 😳
It was a special experience.

Portions of this two week recording project were included in Vera Lutter's "One Day", 2011, a two screen installation exhibited at Gagosian Gallery and Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France.
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If it doesn’t pop up in the playlist you can also find this recording on my Bandcamp.

Both links are in my bio.

@NTS_radio @ianepps @unibasel
#fieldrecording #fieldrecordings #postnatural #bandcamp
#PetiteCamargueAlsacienne #nightingales #rossignol #nachtigall #birds #wildboar #fieldrecordings #ntsradio taken in Réserve naturelle nationale de la petite Camargue alsacienne by @ianepps

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5 years ago

The following recording was excerpted from a two week, 24 hour seamless recording project documenting the mating habits of Nightingales. 10 years ago this week.

Location: Petite Camargue Alsacienne sanctuary in Saint Louis, France.

At the edge of a field of stinging nettles lie a creek bed, and on the other side, a tree. I placed a series of concealed microphones just above a favored branch where a young male Nightingale perched to sing morning and night. I was fortunate to have found such a great placement for the microphones, because these recordings have unbelievable clarity.

Male Nightingales have a remarkable set of varied song; nearly 200 different song types with repeated and unrepeated elements. Their unique songs are what set them apart in partner selection. During mating season they'll sing all night and day, with just a 2 hour break in the afternoon. Once they find a mate, they stop singing at night.

As noise pollution has risen throughout society, the British Nightingale population has decreased by 91% over the last 50 years. One of the fastest declines of any other species. They remain on the endangered species list in the UK.

Being given permission to travel inside the sanctuary was truly a beautiful experience. To enter a space free of people, inhabited by hundreds of Wild Boar, Swans, Cuckoos and Nightingales on their long migratory travel from the Iberian Peninsula and the far reaches of West Africa - was to listen to a fuller expression of liberation.

With gratitude I owe this to the assistance of the joint research teams from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences.

https://camargue.unibas.ch/en/research/

Portions of this two week recording project were included in Vera Lutter's "One Day", 2011, a two screen installation exhibited at Gagosian Gallery and Carré d'Art – Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France. @ianepps
#fieldrecording #fieldrecordings #postnatural #nightingales #rossignol #nachtigall taken in Réserve naturelle nationale de la petite Camargue alsacienne by @ianepps

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5 years ago

Out today! 🌑🌚
https://ianepps.bandcamp.com/album/cave-of-the-eye

Cave of the Eye 38:38 minutes
Improvisations recorded and performed by Ian Epps
Design: Ian Epps
Font face: Volkisschrift. A Sutterlin folk script.
Label: Twinned Ⱅ Air

In Kelvin’s Distance – 09:50
Cascades, Part iii – 18:57
In Kelvin’s Distance (Air Turns to Water, Water to Air – Edit) – 09:50

“By dreams of marine flares
and inflatables, buoyant smoke, percolating fret,
one is weakened. Violence enters the imagination.”

- Bitumen, from The Road In is Not the Same Road Out by Karen Solie

It flees the orchard and enters the sea.

#ianepps #bandcamp taken in Brooklyn, New York by @ianepps

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6 years ago

A good All Saints Day to everyone 🌑 - One of my audio recordings has been included in this screening. It opened today and will be up for the entire month of November, with an additional screening event and conversation with curators @janelle.vanderkelen and @thiro.suzuki on Friday November 6th at 8p. The discussion is hosted by @woodlandpattern https://www.acinema.space/ 🌑 #Repost @acinemaspace
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‼️NOW SHOWING ‼️
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Shikata Ga Nai • works by @alejandraabad__ , @ianepps , Erin Espelie, and @loreloyens • Available to view through November 30 • Link in bio 👆🏼#ianepps taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @ianepps

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6 years ago

check out some new musics from me, with some fake reviews and some fine company. 👐🏼 👆🏼 #Repost @blldtz ・・・
ISSUE 5 is here!!!!! 🗞️
There's a link in the bio place!! 🔮
The fake reviews have real musics by Velaya Borona, L. Brown, @brzraps, @adamcooperteran, @_jordumb, @sbassoon, @ianepps, @georgina.lewis, @sylvain.souklaye, Woody Sullender, @talibamnyc, Dr. Hiatus Hobby Tarantato, @devilesky, @wibti, and @logankyoung

EWWWWWWWWWEEEEE...... 🧫🧬📎✏️📡 taken in Ridgewood by @ianepps

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7 years ago

A nice show coming up Friday August 9th @thewindjammer sound starts at 9p - $5 door. Event listing on fb. With @postmoves_ and Warren Ng (Somnambulists) #Repost @postmoves_
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a nice one on the horizon in Ridgewood #ambient #electronicmusic #dronemusic #appalachia #drift by @ianepps

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7 years ago

#Repost @thecaribbeanisaband ・・・
We put out our single "Vitamin Ship" in late 2018 and commissioned some great folks to do remixes. "Vitamin Ships: Remixes" is out today. Many thanks to @ianepps , @joshlistens , @josh__mason , @mikeshiflet , and @reodjectz . Link in bio. #remix #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic by @ianepps

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7 years ago

A rinsing #reflections by @ianepps

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7 years ago

@ssscacco at @park_church_coop with @tgrspt this past Friday. A nice evening all around. by @ianepps

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7 years ago

We opened our 👀 just for a minute. #moon #stargazing taken in East Village/Lower East Side Historic District by @ianepps

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7 years ago

Oxidized iron deposited marine ice #phytoplanktonfood by @ianepps

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8 years ago

#stttshhhhh by @ianepps

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8 years ago