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SOUNDSCAPE ROST (ELIN OYEN VISTER) — Spaces and Species Vol. I
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Soundscape Rst-Spaces and Species Vol I is a unique collection of field recordings and soundscapes, from the Rst archipelago 100 km into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Nordland (NO/Spmi). The album is a careful edited selection of hours and hours of sound material listened to and recorded between 2010 and 2011. The listener will experience a multitude of nature and sea-bird voices/spaces and acoustic moments, spanning from booming roars to the faintest of hums. You can listen to the song of the multitude of pelagic seabirds breeding in the Rst archipelago and the Nykan nature-reserve and the acoustic moments in time of their ocean-and land spaces they spend their time in every spring and summer, mating, breeding their chicks, socializing and coming and goings searching for food.The lowfrequenzy grunts of the Razor Bill, the song of the last Kittiwakes of Vedya, the swarming of hundreds of Puffin wings and their ancient cowlike song and grunts in their nests in Hernyken nature reserve, The Eiders of Krysundet an early winter-spring morning and the sounds of the ebb and flow on the Northside of Rstlandet are amongst the soundscapes on Vol 1.
Vol I is eavesdropping to the rapidly changing soundscapes of one of Northern Europe most numerous seabird breeding colonies which has for half a century experienced an escalating dramatic decline of the pelagic seabird populations, resulting in the silencing of the bird mountains . Soundscape Rst also listen to and documents the acoustic realities of a marine land -and seascape over time and listens to nature-culture in an everlasting continuum of interdependency. The vinyl album is an integral part of the sound installation Soundscape Rst The Listening Lounge, (2012) and is the first album in the Soundscape Rst triology.
Note to the reissue on Gruenrekorder.
Since the album was released in 2012, the decline in the seabird populations have escalated. During the summer of 2020 the bird mountain of Vedya became silent. Statistically speaking there are no more Kittiwakes and Guillemot breeding on Vedya. In 1980 there was approximately 1.5 million pairs of Puffins breeding in all of the Rst archipelago and on Vedya alone, 12000 pairs of Guillemots and 25.000 pairs of Kittiwakes. Now the overall Puffin population is down to around less than 200.000 pairs and the few Guillemots left are hiding in small caves and crevices. The last Kittwakes of Rst are now clinging on in Krya and Gjellfruvr. If the decline continues, there will be no Puffins left in Rst by 2040.
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Vol I is eavesdropping to the rapidly changing soundscapes of one of Northern Europe most numerous seabird breeding colonies which has for half a century experienced an escalating dramatic decline of the pelagic seabird populations, resulting in the silencing of the bird mountains . Soundscape Rst also listen to and documents the acoustic realities of a marine land -and seascape over time and listens to nature-culture in an everlasting continuum of interdependency. The vinyl album is an integral part of the sound installation Soundscape Rst The Listening Lounge, (2012) and is the first album in the Soundscape Rst triology.
Note to the reissue on Gruenrekorder.
Since the album was released in 2012, the decline in the seabird populations have escalated. During the summer of 2020 the bird mountain of Vedya became silent. Statistically speaking there are no more Kittiwakes and Guillemot breeding on Vedya. In 1980 there was approximately 1.5 million pairs of Puffins breeding in all of the Rst archipelago and on Vedya alone, 12000 pairs of Guillemots and 25.000 pairs of Kittiwakes. Now the overall Puffin population is down to around less than 200.000 pairs and the few Guillemots left are hiding in small caves and crevices. The last Kittwakes of Rst are now clinging on in Krya and Gjellfruvr. If the decline continues, there will be no Puffins left in Rst by 2040.
https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=18960