dusk –​–​–​–​–​–​– dawn

by Pablo Diserens

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> published on Audio Visuals Atmosphere
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Originally thought and shown as an acousmatic sound installation, the piece dusk — dawn is a field recording composition which invites the audience to listen to a city from dusk to dawn by embodying a figure who wanders from one acoustic encounter to another. What happens to the urban soundscape once its human population is asleep? Putting the emphasis on the little heard sounds of a city, the composition allows listeners to dive in buildings’ drafts, bats’ calls, empty train stations’ ultrasounds, singing escalators, talking swans, humming electrical junction boxes, and birds’ dawn choruses. Documentary at times, surreal at others, the piece proposes an electroacoustic excursion by mixing and processing a set of sounds recorded at night in the city of Berlin during the lockdown and curfew period of spring 2021.

Special thanks to the crepuscular animals that have lent me their voices, and warm thanks to Madelyn Byrd, Diane Barbé, Mathieu Bonnafous, Sophie Heldt, Niels Geybels, Yannick Dauby, and Corinne Diserens.

Nocturnal listening with headphones or conventional speakers recommended.

— sounds and photographs gathered in berlin, may and june 2021
— layered and processed in berlin, june 2021
— originally shown as an acousmatic sound installation in bruxelles, june 2021
— recorded with Sound Devices MixPre-6 II, Sony PCM-D100, LOM's Usi Pro, and LOM's Geofón
— formats: cassette & digital
— mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
— published by Audio Visuals Atmosphere — march 2022

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released March 25, 2022

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Pablo Diserens Berlin, Germany

field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence.

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