Felix Blume's Sounds

Author: Vários
Narrator: Vários
Publisher: Podcast
Duration: 24:18:14
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Synopsis

Felix Blume (Narbonne, France, 1984) is a sound artist and sound engineer. He currently works and lives between Mexico, France and Belgium.His personal work is based on field-recordings using sound as a basic material, in sound pieces, videos, actions and installations. He works with communities in the public space. In his pieces, he blurs the line between sounds and music by changing noise in sounds that eventually sheds a new light on the perception of the surrounding sounds. The particularity of his work is that the audio and visual aspects are closely intertwined. As a sound collector, he has a large sound library recorded from different parts of the world that he freely shares on the Internet. He has participated in exhibitions in Spain (LOOP Festival, CCCB), Mexico (Ex-Teresa, Fonoteca Nacional, Casa de Francia, Quinto Piso), Chile (CENTEX, Festival Tsonami), France (Instants Chavirés) , Germany (Labor 19) and Belgium (Festival Monophonic). His sound pieces were broadcasted in galleries and radios from all over the world: Arte Radio (FR), Kunst Radio (AT), Deutschland Radio Kultur (DE), Radio Nacional de España (ES), Phaune Radio (FR), ABC Radio (AU), Radio Panik (BE), Radio Grenouille (FR) among others, as well as in different spaces such as Centre Pompidou and Musée dOrsay. His work Los Gritos de Mexico was granted the Pierre Schaeffer prize in the French festival Phonurgia (Paris) and an honorific mention in the Bienal de Radio in Mexico City.His work as sound engineer focus on sound recording and sound design for documentaries, feature films and video art, collaborating with different directors and visual artists as Francis Alÿs among others. He graduated from INSAS Film School in Belgium and an Audiovisual Technician Brevet in France. He also gave workshops in France, Mexico, Italy and Belgium.

Episodes

Some people praying into the "Abbaye de La Cambre" in Brussels (Belgium)

20/03/2011 Duration: 48s

Some people praying into the "Abbaye de La Cambre" in Brussels, Belgium. They are praying "Je vous salut Marie" (in French). Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8 Sound Devices 302 mixer MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in Brussels in 2008 Same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/117470/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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The tree are creaking and cracking in the patagonian forest (Argentina)

20/03/2011 Duration: 02min

Argentina, Tierra del Fuego - At the edge of the forest, the tree are creaking and cracking in the patagonian wind Sound recorded by a MS setup Sennheiser Microphone MKH50@MKH30 Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in 2007 Same sound on Freesound http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/134095/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com Please rate the sound or comment it if you like it !

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During the "patagonian rodeo", the farmers of the estancia go into the fields to collect the sheep

20/03/2011 Duration: 02min

During the "patagonian rodeo", the farmers of the estancia go into the fields to collect the sheep. They are whistling and shouting to afraid the sheep and put them in the corner of the field, till they arrive to the estancia. Sound recorded by a MS setup Sennheiser Microphone MKH50+MKH30 Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is not encoded recorded in 2007 The same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/110921/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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A guanaco (kind of patagonian llama) calling his guanaco-children into the forest

20/03/2011 Duration: 02min

A guanaco (kind of patagonian llama) calling his guanaco-children into the forest of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). Sound recorded by a MS setup Sennheiser Microphone MKH50+MKH30 Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is not encoded recorded in 2007 Same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/110920/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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Wind is blowing in the barbed wire fence (Land of Fire, Argentina)

20/03/2011 Duration: 02min

Wind is blowing in the barbed wire fence (Land of Fire, Argentina). Sound recorded by a MS setup Sennheiser Microphone MKH50+MKH30 Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in 2007 Same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/138158/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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Cans in the wind in a garden to move away the moles (Ukraine)

15/03/2011 Duration: 02min

Cans in the wind in a garden in Ukraine to move away the moles. Recorded in a small village. Dogs are barking in background. Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8 Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is not encoded recorded in 2010 Sound Ref: cfe101022t062 You can find the same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/117260/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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The "bipbip" of a dosimeter in Prypiat (close to Chernobyl NPP)

15/03/2011 Duration: 02min

The "bipbip" of a dosimeter in Prypiat (close to Chernobyl NPP). Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8 Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in 2010 Sound Ref: cfe101027t046 You can find the same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/139039/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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Rain inside the old theater of Prypiat (Ukraine, close to Chernobyl)

15/03/2011 Duration: 01min

Rain inside the old theater of Prypiat (Ukraine, close to Chernobyl). Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8 Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in 2010 You can find the same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/137288/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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A swing is squeaking at night in Kiev. (Ukraine)

15/03/2011 Duration: 01min

A swing is squeaking at night in Kiev (Ukraine). Sound recorded by a MS setup Schoeps Microphone CCM41+CCM8 Sound Devices 552 mixer + Sound Devices 744T recorder MS is encoded in STEREO Left-Right recorded in 2010 You can find the same sound on Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/137271/ more sounds on http://www.felixblume.com

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