Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings #15 - Jamie McCarthy "Seir (Iranian Journey)" - Sunday 11th April 2021

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Central Asia. Entitled Central Asia PhoNographic Mornings this series for Resonance Extra forms part of a wider project, Each Morning of the World, which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

This episode is Seir (Iranian Journey) by Jamie McCarthy:

"This piece is a sound travelogue of a couple of weeks I spent visiting Iran between 4th and 15th Dey 1397 (25th December 2018 and 5th January 2019). It's a mixture of field recordings made during my time there and other, more 'musical' elements. It was made simply to play to friends as a sort of sound postcard of my time in Iran.

Since it was a holiday and not a work trip, most of the recordings I made were done on my phone whenever I heard something I found interesting, although I did manage to do some slightly better-quality recordings with a Zoom H5 recorder at the spring next to the Palace of Ardeshir Pāpakan."

You can hear the entire piece here.

Locations:

Tehran Grand Bazaar - Tehran Province, Tehran, District 12, Panzdah-e-Khordad St, Iran, Coordinates: 35˚67’50” N 5˚.41’ 94”E

Golestan Palace - Tehran District 12 Panzdah-e-Khordad St Fifth Khordad Avenue Arg Square, Iran, Coordinates: 35˚40’47”N 51˚25’13”˚E

Homa Hotel - District 1, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran, Coordinates: 29˚36’36”N 52˚32’33”E

Palace of Ardeshir Pāpakan - Fars Province, Iran, Coordinates: 28.898091˚N 52.539314˚E

Naghsh-e Jahan, Esfahan, Iran, Coordinates: 32˚38’41”N 51˚40’03”E

Train from Esfahan to Yazd, Iran

Jamie McCarthy was born in England in 1963.