<![CDATA[BIOSPHERE SOUNDSCAPES - BLOG]]>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:11:04 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[REVEIL 24+1 HOUR BROADCAST 2024]]>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:26:13 GMThttp://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/blog/reveil-241-hour-broadcast-2024Picture
5AM London time (UTC+1) on Saturday 4 MAY to 6AM on Sunday 5 MAY 2024
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The Reveil broadcast will again make a full loop of the earth over the Dawn Chorus Day weekend in May this year.

We welcome new and established streamers to join in assembling a sequence of live sounds starting near the 0 meridian at daybreak on Saturday and returning 24 hours later with a 1 hour coda.

You can stream with a phone, a laptop or a raspberry pi. How to.

To join the broadcast, please propose a stream.

Or go straight to create a stream page and confirm when the broadcast will pick up your sounds.

We especially welcome those who set up streamboxes for the Reveil 10 call, only to experience a major server failure, which meant that many streams could not appear.

Please watch these pages, and consider joining out mailing list for occasional updates over the coming weeks.
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ABOUT
Reveil (2014—) is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 4 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light.

Streams come from a variety of locations and situations, at a time of day when many people are unaccustomed to be up and out, but sounds are vivid, especially in Spring. The Reveil broadcast makes room by largely avoiding speech and music, gravitating to places where human and non human communities meet and soundworlds overlap.
Each stream adds to and alters the loop.
REVEIL has become a habit and a practice of sharing sounds of places as first light arrives.

HOW TO
We warmly welcome returning and new live streams for this 10th edition. We especially welcome proposals for streams from less heard locations and projects wherever they may be. Pacific and Atlantic timezones are under represented in Reveil, and situations and places in the global South are under-heard.
We can provide detailed help with streaming, using a phone, laptop or Raspberry Pi. By creating a stream page, you can provide context for listeners, and create a long-term record.

For more information, see Stream. To register your interest, propose a stream, or ask a question, please be in touch: contact at soundtent dot org.

LISTEN
Follow the expanded radio event from 05:00 UTC+1 on Saturday 4 MAY to 06:00 on Sunday 5 MAY at REVEIL. Stream pages can be created form early March. For now you can get a sense of last year's broadcast by checking the list of streams pages set up by contributors in 2023. See the streams pages for details on each. A full list of FM and net radios where you can listen to REVEIL will appeat at Listen.

PITCH
The Reveil broadcast will be played out at Stave Hill Ecological Park in a portable auditorium by sound artist Michael Speers and architects Public Works.
Swapping, streaming, assembling a collectively produced long radio form, REVEIL is a chance to gather tools and recipes for ecological radio, and listen together to acoustic commons in the making.

CREDITS
REVEIL relays the sounds of live open microphones on the Locus Sonus soundmap, operated by the Acoustic Commons network, together with projects by the Cyberforest programme, BIOM Open Microphone network, Biosphere Soundscapes, radio.earth, and elsewhere. It is made up of sounds freely provided by streamers, spanning formal research, long term art and activist works, domestic projects, and one-off transmissions.
Reveil 2023 will be produced in London, Estonia and Chania by Soundcamp, with guest mixers to be announced.

Broadcasting Partners: Wave Farm WGXC (Acra, NY), Resonance FM/Extra (UK).
Stream hosting: Locus Sonus (ESAAIX, Aix-en-Provence)
Participating radio stations > Broadcast
Partner organisations in the Acoustic Commons project: Full Of Noises (Cumbria UK) · Locus Sonus (Aix FR) · Radio CONA (Ljubljana SI) · HMU and TUC (Crete GR) · Cyberforest (Tokyo JP).

The Reveil project is anticipated and informed by transects recorded by Gordon Hempton and Bernie Krause in the 1980's and 1990's that re-presented and extended auditions of the dawn chorus across large areas, as well as variants that captured the progress of Spring moving up over North America. The idea of a round-the-world dawn chorus recording lasting 24 hours has appeared periodically on wildlife and nature recordist lists. Gordon Hempton and the ornithologist Don Kroodsma have both imagined such a trajectory as a kind of aural surfing. In 2010 in collaboration with Páll Thayer, Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson made the installation DayBreak, Forever, which used a script to create a sequence through the Locus Sonus streams in much the same way Reveil would do later.
]]><![CDATA[SoundCamp's REVEIL broadcasting live this weekend!]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:09:55 GMThttp://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/blog/soundcamps-reveil-broadcasting-live-this-weekend
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Article by USC Sound Lab 

​International Dawn Chorus Day is nearly here!
 
The global event that reveals nature's secret symphonies is taking place this Saturday from 2pm, as a radio broadcast at the Reveil website, looping intensified acoustic ecologies at dawn across the world.
 
This year's recordings are set to surpass previous choruses due to the decrease in lockdown-induced man-made noise.
 
“The project is really about encouraging people to listen at a time when it is increasingly important to listen to the environment. In our visually dominant society it is easy to ignore our changing soundscapes and Reveil is an opportunity to stop and listen,” says Leah Barclay.
 
With the help of a University of the Sunshine Coast team, Reveil will be launching local streams and tracking the sounds produced by live microphones in the locations of the rainforest canopy at Mary Cairncross, Maroochy River, Eudlo Creek and the Noosa Biosphere Reserve.
 
The choir-like broadcast will travel across the world from east to west in sync with the sun; a soundscape created by a mix of producers in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific.
 
Tune in to this year's dawn chorus at Reveil and let the melodic environment reassure you that new life and nature will never be locked down.

Follow the event in real-time in Asia-Pacific timezones with the USC SoundLab on twitter, instagram and facebook. Follow the hashtag #Reveil2020 for the latest information on the event. 

SoundCamp are an art collective based at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe coordinated by Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe and Grant Smith. Sound Camp have been working with Biosphere Soundscapes developing the BIOM project since 2017.  


]]><![CDATA['Voices of the Rainforest' Australian Premiere and Q&A with Steven Feld]]>Thu, 12 Dec 2019 05:08:11 GMThttp://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/blog/voices-of-the-rainforest-australian-premiere-and-qa-with-steven-feld
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Following the successful 'Perspectives of Listening' Biosphere Soundscapes Symposium in 2018, we are excited to welcome Steven Feld back to Brisbane for the Australian premiere of 'Voices of the Rainforest', to be followed by a Q&A with Director and Producer Steven Feld and Biosphere Soundscapes director Leah Barclay.

Experience a journey into Papua New Guinea's Bosavi rainforest and an intimate portrayal of its people through this environmental rockumentary concert of a day in the life of the forest and music it inspires.

Directed and produced by Steven Feld, and recorded with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, the project benefits the Bosavi Peoples Fund, advocating for environmental and cultural survival in the most remote part of Papua New Guinea.

WHEN: Friday 13 December
TIME: 6pm for a 6.30pm start
WHERE: Griffith Film School Cinema
COST: Free. Bookings essential.

MORE INFO:
'Voices of the Rainforest' is a seventy-minute, 4K image and 7.1 surround sound documentary about the ecological and aesthetic co-evolution of Papua New Guinea’s Bosavi rainforest region and its inhabitants. It is produced and directed by Steven Feld, who first began regular research visits to Bosavi in 1976 and is the author of 'Sound and Sentiment'.

'Voices' was originally a 1991 CD release produced by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart for his Rykodisc series 'The World'. The recording condenses twenty-four hours of sounds of the rainforest and the Bosavi people into an hour. It makes audible myriad connections between the everyday sounds of the rainforest biosphere and the creative practices of singing to, with, and about it by the Bosavi people. As a work of advocacy for environmental and cultural sustainability, the CD royalties have benefited the Bosavi Peoples Fund, which aides the educational, legal, medical, and social needs of the Bosavi community.

In 2016 Feld digitized the original analog audio tapes held in Mickey Hart’s archive, and recomposed an expanded 'Voices' as a 7.1 cinema surround sound concert for the recording’s 25th anniversary. The work was done at George Lucas’s Skywalker Sound, in collaboration with Academy Award nominated sound editor Dennis Leonard. Performances were held in major music halls and auditoriums in the USA, Australia, and Europe in 2017.

The success of the immersive soundtrack led to funding efforts to digitize Feld’s archive of Bosavi images, and to send Feld and filmmaker Jeremiah Richards to Bosavi for two months in summer 2018 with high-resolution cameras and drones to renew the project locally. During the trip Bosavi people suggested the film be in two parts, the first a visualization of the 7.1 surround Voices of the Rainforest concert, the second an update about the state of the forest and the problems of development in what remains a remote and under-served region of Papua New Guinea. Feld and Richards will return to Bosavi at the close of 2019 to show the concert film, and to complete the companion documentary, 'New Voices of the Rainforest', for 2020.

Voices of the Rainforest
Concert Film on BluRay Disc
Created in collaboration with the Bona community of Bosavi, Papua New Guinea. Produced by Steven Feld and Dennis Leonard. Directed by Steven Feld and Jeremiah Ra Richards. Executive Producers: Caryl and Mickey Hart. Research, Sound Recording, Composition, Still Photography: Steven Feld. Videography, Drone Imaging, Film Editing: Jeremiah Ra Richards. 7.1 Cinema Surround Editing and Mixing: Dennis Leonard
]]><![CDATA[RIVERLAND BIOSPHERE SOUNDSCAPES LAB, MAY 2019, SOUTH AUSTRALIA]]>Sat, 11 May 2019 04:46:02 GMThttp://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/blog/riverland-biosphere-soundscapes-lab-may-2019-south-australiaSupported by Country Arts SA, the Riverland Biosphere Soundscape Lab will take place between May 24-26 2019 at Calperum Station in South Australia's Riverland Biosphere Reserve. Informed by the creative possibilities of acoustic ecology, and rapidly emerging fields of biology exploring environmental patterns and changes through sound, the Lab will bring together artists, scientists and community members to explore the acoustic environments of the Riverland Biosphere Reserve.

Led by South Australian interdisciplinary composer and sound artist Jesse Budel, participants will take part in a variety of activities across the weekend, including field trips, field recordings, creative work listening sessions, expert presentations, and group discussions. Supported by the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network, participants will immerse themselves in artistic, scientific and cultural perspectives on listening and acoustic ecology in South Australia's diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Participants will need to cover their own travel to the lab location, but all costs including workshops, accommodation and meals will be provided. There are limited places available, so please contact us if you have any questions about this experience. 

To register your interest in the project, fill out the form available here.

Please note future activities are being planned for the Riverland Biosphere Reserve through 2019-2020, including a strong focus on freshwater ecoacoustics in the Murray River. 
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]]><![CDATA[Freshwater Listening, November 2018]]>Sat, 10 Nov 2018 02:56:09 GMThttp://www.biospheresoundscapes.org/blog/freshwater-listening-november-2018Freshwater Listening is a national two day (free) event on November 17-18 in regional Victoria celebrating freshwater care and 20 years of acoustic ecology in Australia. The event is hosted by AFAE founding member Dr Ros Bandt and the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology in collaboration with Biosphere Soundscapes director Dr Leah Barclay. The program includes sound walks, hydrophone workshops, freshwater listening expeditions, presentations, performances and the Freshwater Listening exhibition featuring some of Australia's leading artists. ​
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