Southeast Asia PhoNographic Mornings #2 - Rodolphe Alexis "Nomascus Concolor’s Call"

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of twenty soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South East Asia. This series 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.

"A misty dawn in the Laotian mountain forest of the Nam Kan National Protected Area. Singing under the summer rain, a couple of western Black crested gibbons, (Nomascus Concolor Lu) claim their territory. We can easily hear the rain hitting the sheet metal roof of a treehouse above the slope of the forest. Only found in northwestern Laos, Nomascus Concolor Lu is a critically endangered sub species of the black crested gibbon. This was recorded in collaboration with the ecotourism project "The Gibbon Experience" during the summer closing of 2017. The file is a binaural mixdown of an ambisonic recording."

Rodolphe Alexis is a sound recordist involved in phonography and field recording. He also works in installation, sculpture, performance and radio. He regularly works with art schools, music schools and museums. As an associate curator of the MU collective, he participates in various electro-acoustic projects.