Sonic Grunewald Fields is an ambient album composed entirely from field recordings made in Berlin’s Grunewald forest. Each piece is titled with the coordinates of a specific location in the forest and uses only sounds recorded at that spot.
The recordings were made with omnidirectional microphones, a contact microphone and a hydrophone, capturing the forest in the air, through its surfaces and under water. They were then shaped through digital processing, from resonators and filters to granular and spectral synthesis, turning the fleeting tones and pulses found in each place into musical motifs.
The album moves between listening and composing, between chance sound events and structured repetition.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR recovery program.
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