South American PhoNographic Mornings #8 - Pali Meursault: MM-07

Stéphane Marin presents a series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South America. Entitled « South American 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.

"MM-07 is a recomposition I made using early morning recordings I brought back from a residency at Mamori Lake, Brazilian Amazon, in 2007. From an arbitrary rule of working only with every first recording of every day, I revisited this 10-year old sound archive and forced it into new and unexpected arrangements: howler monkeys were always right on time, but some of these first recordings of the day also happen to feature frogs, birds choruses, contact mic recordings, false takes, and microphones issues.

Mamori Lake is about 80 kilometers south of Manaus, which represents crossing the Amazon, driving for half an hour down the Trans-Amzonian and riding a boat for 6 hours along windy rivers.
Francisco Lopez organized a field-recording workshop there for many years, and I was lucky enough to be invited to one of the early sessions."

       - Pali Meursault

Pali Meursault collects electroacoustic matters from a variety of places, natural, urban and industrial.
http://palimeursault.net