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Gruenrekorder understands itself as an organisation with the aim of promoting soundworks and phonography.

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all new #soundart #musiqueconcrete #dronemusic #electroacoustic #experimentalmusic https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-62026/

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Danke schön @gruenrekorder for releasing a version of a collaboration with @gregory_buettner1 - “A sounding walk through a situation that’s already finished and a place that no longer exists”

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All new #musiqueconcrete #soundart #dronemusic #fieldrecordings #electroacoustic https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-6626/

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I am thrilled to share the first review of my new album Ghostly Waters -Gruenrekorder- on the excellent journal Bad Alchemy Magazin.

Link in stories, translation here:

DAVID VÉLEZ takes us to the River Calder, near Warley and Norland in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. The sound artist, born in Bogotá in 1973 and holding a PhD in Sonic Art and Music Technology from the University of Huddersfield, approaches the river diagnostically through a form of ‘tactile music’ created from hydrophone and geophone recordings, going beyond mere phenomenological listening.
One cannot hear that the Calder is the second most polluted river in England due to former textile dye works, a decommissioned tar-burning facility, and uncontrolled sewage discharge. Nor can one hear the abundance of calcium and magnesium carbonate in the river and the agriculturally used river valley. These are remnants from the Carboniferous period over 310 million years ago, when the region — the avalonian part of Laurussia/Euramerica located at the equator — was a tropical rainforest filled with megafauna.
The postcards, illustrated by Lina Velandia, who has been visually interpreting Vélez’s sound art for years, depict gigantic amphibious ghosts from this distant past. A past that still bubbles, gurgles, scratches, crackles, and blackens the Calder’s waters through layers of coal and shale. In the same way that pollution contaminates hi-fidelity sound.
Yet what flows ghostlike in and around the river — whispering, gurgling, rushing, scraping, croaking, and thudding — chub, roach… insects… the water, time itself, and its anthropocentric, biophobic, and toxic bite — all of this serves as a warning not to worsen the work of ahuman, climatic, and geological forces through shortsighted self-interest.
Instead, it urges us to listen to voices such as the entomologist and Half-Earth advocate E. O. Wilson, Michael Marder with his ‘Plant-Thinking,’ and Jeffrey T. Nealon with his ‘Plant-Theory.’ And to listen to what nature, with its memory millions of years old, ‘whispers’ to us — so that we may draw consequences from it.

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Thank you @gruenrekorder !!
Amazing artist and great friend @gregory_buettner1 and I made an installation/intervention/performance for @betweenebbandflow back in 2022 and this version takes you on a journey through it!

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It is with great joy that I present Ghostly Waters, a series of underwater and subterranean recordings I made between July and August 2023 in the River Calder and its basin, across the towns of Warley and Norland in Calderdale, England.

The work is released as a digital album accompanied by a PDF booklet and a postcard, published by the wonderful Gruenrekorder label in Germany, and developed in collaboration with the brilliant visual artist Lina Velandia (@todoloquesemuevesuena).

It is now available for purchase on the Gruenrekorder website at the following link or in stories-

https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=22151

Ghostly Waters is the fourth part of a series of artworks created using this group of recordings from the River Calder, together with the installations:
• The River Within (The Urban Nature Sonic Pavillion/SAIC) Chicago, US 2024
• The Calder in your Guts (Sounds of Dissent/DCI) Dublin, Ireland 2024
• The Calder in your Bones (HCMF/Cultures of sound) Huddersfield, UK 2023

Audio Mastering: Bruno Duplant

Special thanks to: Lasse-Marc Riek, Roland Etzin, Lina Velandia, Bruno Duplant, Jelena Gligorijevic, University of Huddersfield, Dublin City University, SAIC, Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, HCMF, and Ruchi Singh.

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Soon on Gruenrekorder, Ghostly Waters
A collaboration with @todoloquesemuevesuena

From the booklet

“Using hydrophones and geophones, I documented the sounds of the river’s black-coloured water, soil, and boulders — a habitat shaped by dark minerals and organic residues as the Calder percolates through coal seams, carbonaceous shales, and ironstone. The river’s coarse, bubbling, gurgling, crumbling, tapping, scraping, and dripping sounds created a mysterious, ghostly aurality, perhaps linked to the density of the media through which sonic waves travel there, which to me echoed the river’s biological decay. Among the recorded sounds, some were particularly quirky and murky — a series of growling, expressive tones that intrigued me, as I could not identify their source. They may have been produced by fish feeding on algae, such as roaches or chubs, species especially vulnerable to contamination. Moreover, many of the recordings, especially those made underground, were so subtle that I had to set the recorder at a high level, resulting in a hiss. Friction against the hydrophone and geophone cables also introduced unwanted noise, both of which I embraced in the editing process to emphasise the pollution affecting the Calder. I then layered water, soil, and boulder sounds to create depth — drawing out enigmatic, ghostly resonances.”

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Sergio Armaroli & Steve Piccolo – Listen! MadeRadioArt Anthology

https://neural.it/2026/04/sergio-armaroli-steve-piccolo-listen-maderadioart-anthology/

#soundart #neuralmag #neuralmagazine #musicreview #experimental #experimentalmusic #audioart #soundart

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I’m so happy to finally share that my album ‘Kozmické louky‘ will be released on April 30 by Gruenrekorder! You can now pre-order the vinyl and listen to the first track ‘U soutoku‘ on Bandcamp — find the link in my bio 🌀

Kozmické louky—Kozmické meadows is a wetland in Silesia, on the very edge of the Czech Republic, where I come from. The album listens closely to these environments and its changes over time, entering into a dialogue with it—imagining and dreaming through field recordings and electroacoustic compositions created on site or in close relation to it between 2021 and 2025. Featuring collaborations with some of my dear friends and colleagues — Adela Mede @adelkamed , Lucie Páchová, Klaus Holm @klaus.e.holm , Michal Kindernay @kindernay.michal , and Peter Cusack.

mixed by me (tracks 1-7, 10), Peter Cusack (8), Lucie Páchová (9), Michal Kindernay (11) and Kristoffer Lislegaard @lislegaard (12, 13)
mastered by Lasse Marhaug @lassemarhaug
coverart & graphic design by Kateřina Havelková @krutjupi
liner notes by Michal Kindernay & me
poem by František Hruška @thefranta
released by Gruenrekorder / Field Recording Series @gruenrekorder

Special thanks to Bludný kámen—Martin Klimeš & Jakub Frank, Gruenrekorder—Roland Etzin & Lasse-Marc Riek, Elin Már Øyen Vister @fyrvoktern , Frank Ekeberg @fekeberg , Michal Kindernay, and my family—Ole and Emilie.

The album was created alongside the long-term project Kozmic sounds by Magdaléna Manderlová and Michal Kindernay, initiated and commissioned by Bludný kámen in 2021. Its making was supported by Arts Council Norway @kulturdir , Atelier Nord @ateliernord_oslo , Bludný kámen @bludny_kamen , the Composers Remuneration Fund @musikkfondene and Notam @notam02 .

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Late night fever relief 😮‍💨

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Pietro Grossi (Sergio Armaroli) – OSTN

https://neural.it/2025/12/pietro-grossi-sergio-armaroli-ostn/

#neuralmag #neuralmagazine #musicreview #experimentalmusic
#experimental #soundart #audioart

@gruenrekorder

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@bandcamp Best Albums of 2025!

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