BAT, by Slavek Kwi

BAT

by Slavek Kwi

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	1.	Meath Ireland i. 02:56
	2.	Meath Ireland ii. 01:36
	3.	Meath Ireland iii. 00:09
	4.	Meath Ireland iv. 04:05
	5.	Meath Ireland v. 00:10
	6.	Whitefathers Cave Ireland i. 03:24
	7.	Whitefathers Cave Ireland ii. 04:39
	8.	Whitefathers Cave Ireland iii. 00:47
	9.	Mamori Amazon Brazil i. 09:16
	10.	Mamori Amazon Brazil ii. 10:37
	11.	Xixuau Xiparina Amazon Brazil i. 00:21
	12.	Xixuau Xiparina Amazon transposed -36semi 00:22
	13.	NT Australia (flying foxes) 04:08
	14.	Kitum Cave Kenya i. 02:34
	15.	Kitum Cave Kenya ii. 06:14
	16.	Kitum Cave Kenya iii. 02:01
	17.	Mountshannon Ireland i. 01:42
	18.	Mountshannon Ireland ii. 02:15
	19.	Mountshannon Ireland iii. 01:15
	20.	Mountshannon Ireland iv. 04:16
	21.	Mountshannon Ireland v. (live) 11:37
	22.	Mountshannon Ireland vi. 02:17
	23.	NT Australia i. (construct) 05:25
	24.	NT Australia ii. (construct) 10:40
	25.	MICROBATS (composition) 06:12

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BATS pt1_re-edition of album from 2008
Recordings of bats by Slavek Kwi

Equipment:
Sound Devices 722
Mic = Microphones DPA 4060 (#11, 13), Rode NT4
Detect = Heterodyne ultrasound detector Laar TD05-B
(frequency range 15 kHz – 120 kHz)
Ultramic = Ultrasound Microphone USM 20-6
(frequency range 100 Hz – 140 kHz)
MD = Minidisk Sony + binaural microphones Seinheiser MK2

Ireland 2008:
trk01) detect = solitary bat sonar 19.8.2008, Ivy Cottage garden
trk02) ultramic = bats 23.7.2008 > transposed -36 semitones
trk03) mic = bat 21.8.2008, Ivy Cottage > social calls -24 semi
trk04) mic = bat > social calls -36 semi
trk05) mic = bat > social calls -12 semi
trk06) ultramic = colony of bats 7.6.2008, White Fathers cave > realtime
trk07) ultramic = colony of bats 7.6.2008, WFcave > - 33 semi
trk08) ultramic = colony of bats 7.6.2008, WF cave > sonar – 40 semi

Mamori, Amazonas, Brazil_Nov 2007:
trk09) detect = bats in creek
trk10) ultramic = bats in creek > - 36 semi

Xixuau Xiparina, Amazonas, Brazil_Dec 2007:
trk11) detect = bats
trk12) ultramic = bats - 36 semi

Northern territory, Australia_Aug 2006:
trk13) mic = fruit bats / flying foxes > realtime

Kitum Cave, Mt.Elgon, Kenya, Africa_winter 2000/2001:
trk14-15-16) MD = hundreds of bats flying inside cave > realtime

BATS pt2_additional recordings featuring also constructs

Equipment:
Sound Devices 722
Lars Pettersson Ultrasound Detector D 200 (= Ultramic + Detect)
Rode NT4, DPA 4060

Note: trk17 - 22) there are pipistrelle-bats living in our roof of studio (Mountshannon, Eastern Clare, Ireland) _ these are rather random fragments from various recordings featuring also my playing along from inside (i am not actually interacting with bats, as i am inside studio and anyway - i would not wish to disturb bats in their hunting and communication)

trk17) detect _ denoised
trk18) detect rec outside with dawn chorus starting
trk19) detect _ with ambient noise
trk20) detect transposed -37semi
trk21) sounds of bats recorded LIVE while playing bubbling-machine (recorded with hydrophone CRT C55) and EMF (electromagnetic fields) imprint of stroboscopic lights - extract
trk22) ambient recording from inside studio while listening to bats via detector

trk23-24) constructs based on sounds of bats recorded in Northern Territory, Australia_2006

trk25) MICROBATS (a piece entirely created from sounds of bats and insects originally recorded in Amazon, Brazil and published on AMT album “Attracted By Light”, Semperflowers - Russia)

trk26) soundcloud.com/artificialmemorytrace/pipistrelle-bat

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released September 28, 2020

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Artificial Memory Trace Clare, Ireland

Artificial Memory Trace is Slavek Kwi, a sound_artist loving sounds and interested in the phenomena of perception as the fundamental determinant of relations with reality. He is fascinated by possibilities of extrasensory communication as potential for raising mutual sensitivity (see uni.Sol_ and alfa00 projects)

Slavek is grateful for your generous support, it helps him to pursue his research. ... more

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