East Asia PhoNographic Mornings #23 - Martin Kay - 'Joedong-ri Fishing Port'

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout East Asia. 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.

In this episode, 'Joedong-ri Fishing Port' by Martin Kay.

"The first section of this work comprises recordings that consider the movements of water from the Joedong marina and from the inside of its sea wall during the still of the night. The second part considers the bustling activity of the Joedong dock at dawn, when the previous night’s catch of squid is unloaded, gutted, cleaned and packed."

Martin Kay is a sound recordist who creates audio montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social dynamics and place. Through employing an experimental and technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, he is driven to find inventive recording techniques that offer fresh and unusual aural perspectives on his surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events he engages with.

His works have been published through 3LEAVES, AVANTWHATEVER , BCSC, and/OAR, Earwitness, Herbal, and MOOZAK