Jana Winderen – Energy Field

Christian Nelson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:43:53 +0000

Jana Winderen – Energy Field

1. Aquaculture 18:00

2. Isolation/Measurement 12:11

3. Sense of Latent Power 20:04This outstanding new Touch release is an album comprised of documents made by sound recordist Jana Winderen over a number of field trips to the Barents Sea, Greenland, and Norway.

Winderen’s focus takes in above-ground sounds of extreme Northern weather systems and the wildlife that inhabits such surroundings, but perhaps more significantly and insightfully, the Oslo-based artist makes probing recordings of sub-aqua environments/habitats using hydrophones.Winderen delves deeply into glaciers, fjords, and the open ocean with her equipment, capturing incredible unseen worlds populated by baffling and wholly alien sounds. You’ll seldom have any idea as to what might be making some of these amazing noises, but among them are: “Sounds of crustaceans, fish such as cod, haddock, herring, and pollock recorded as they are hunting, calling for a mate or orientating themselves in their environment.”

The disc is divided into three lengthy pieces, each one assembled from a variety of different recordings, carefully layered and edited so as to give a flowing, seamless account of the various locales Winderen explored on her field trips. In terms of recording fidelity and all-round immersive brilliance, Energy Field is right up there alongside Chris Watson’s greatest works—it really is that good. Anyone with an affection for the art of sound recording will instantly adore this release; it’s an album that offers a consistently surprising and illuminating depiction of regions in our natural world that would otherwise be inaccessible to us.

iPod iPod touch 32GB

Christian Nelson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:17:13 +0000

Apple’s iPod touch 32GB is a wet dream! The design is amazing, compared to iPhone the iPod is robust and has a metallic backside, the iPhone on the other hand feel cheap with it’s plastic backside, I can’t figure out why Apple changed the design? The First generation iPhone was rock solid both font and the back.

No iPhone for me! I rather spend my money on this beautiful iPod touch, i can squeeze in some 7,000 songs, 25,000 photos or up to 40 hours of video! This is amazing!!

And the battery life is a travelers dream! Imagine sitting on a plane with all you’re favorite music on you iPod, 36 hours audio playback and 6 hours video.

What if someone had told me that there will be a device like this back in the late 80′s? I was so proudly listening to Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk on my SONY WM-DD100 “Boodo Khan” Walkman.

I’m gonna place an order right now! I will not be disappointed that’s for sure, and if I need to make a phone call i do that with my Nokia N82 that does the job great and without any hazel.

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Jana Winderen – Energy Field

iPod iPod touch 32GB