Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:22:14 +0200 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/ https://img.hearthis.at/6/4/5/_/uploads/8866966/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1501294546.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/the-swan-le-carnaval-des-animaux-camille-saint-saens/ 1464560 no no Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:14:06 +0200 2017-06-03T13:14:06+02:00 3:36 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/sonate-for-violin-and-piano-in-a-major-for-cello-c-franck/ 1464561 no no Sat, 03 Jun 2017 13:06:23 +0200 2017-06-03T13:06:23+02:00 5:40 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/alabaster/ 1464562 no no Wed, 31 May 2017 03:40:51 +0200 2017-05-31T03:40:51+02:00 9:43 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/biomechatronic/
Our mobile devices never sleep, they actively monitor our every move, updating the networks with our position, our actions, our thoughts, and our capacity to consume. CCTV captures our faces in public places and combined with our mobile phones we are willingly and unwillingly surveilled, recorded and logged 24-7. Supposedly we control these electronic devices, but to what extent do they control us?

Electronics are omnipresent in 2015, but the realm of digital transmission, reception and recording goes unheard, largely unnoticed. All electronics have electromagnetic fields, which can be recorded as sound. Digital sound. Noughts and ones. Binary. Monochrome. The sounds you hear are made entirely from laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and their accessories using an induction coil microphone. In one sense the soundtrack suggests the aforementioned tracking of individuals, and the omnipresent electromagnetic backdrop to our cities and homes, but there is also a suggestion that we are already biomechatronic, our species is evolving, becoming cyborg.]]>
Our mobile devices never sleep, they actively monitor our every move, updating the networks with our position, our actions, our thoughts, and our capacity to consume. CCTV captures our faces in public places and combined with our mobile phones we are willingly and unwillingly surveilled, recorded and logged 24-7. Supposedly we control these electronic devices, but to what extent do they control us?

Electronics are omnipresent in 2015, but the realm of digital transmission, reception and recording goes unheard, largely unnoticed. All electronics have electromagnetic fields, which can be recorded as sound. Digital sound. Noughts and ones. Binary. Monochrome. The sounds you hear are made entirely from laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and their accessories using an induction coil microphone. In one sense the soundtrack suggests the aforementioned tracking of individuals, and the omnipresent electromagnetic backdrop to our cities and homes, but there is also a suggestion that we are already biomechatronic, our species is evolving, becoming cyborg.]]> 1464563 no no Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:49:15 +0100 2015-11-10T04:49:15+01:00 6:05 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/dystopia-vca-melbourne/ 1464564 no no Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:54:47 +0100 2015-10-27T06:54:47+01:00 8:48 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/les-mduses-world-puppetry-festival-france/ Directed by Penelope Bartlau
Puppet Design & Construction by Joe Blanck
Sound Design & music by Darius Kedros

Black Hole present Les Méduses (aka the jellyfish) at the World Puppetry Festival from September 21 to 24. Charleville, France]]> Directed by Penelope Bartlau
Puppet Design & Construction by Joe Blanck
Sound Design & music by Darius Kedros

Black Hole present Les Méduses (aka the jellyfish) at the World Puppetry Festival from September 21 to 24. Charleville, France]]> 1464565 no no Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:59:56 +0200 2015-09-22T09:59:56+02:00 5:16 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/batmania-federation-square-melbourne/
The soundscape represents a day and night in the life of the Grey Headed Flying Fox (aka fruit bats). Starting at dusk from their colony in the Yarra Bend park, an expansive bush land park in the heart of the city of Melbourne, they fly out in their thousands, filling the sky like a scene from a Gothic horror, to the suburbs of Melbourne, where they feed on the nectar of Eucalyptus trees, like those at the bottom of our garden where some of these recordings were made, returning to the colony before dawn.

The recordings were made using a Rode NTG3 shotgun microphone into a Sound Devices 552 recorder. The colony sounds comprise 5 separate tree recordings, basically made by standing underneath a tree loaded with bats, hoping not to get pee'd on because they carry some pretty unpleasant diseases. The garden section comprises 2 separate recordings made in a similar way.

This is a stereo version, collapsed from the original 5 channel mix, which were assigned to 5 speakers around the atrium to create a surround sound. I mapped wing beating sounds to travel around the atrium, causing members of the unsuspecting public to duck for cover on occasion. The original looped to approximate their daily life cycle of colony > commute to work to put food in the belly > commute to home colony > repeat, not unlike another mammal that comes to mind.

In fact these megabats are thought to be more closely related to us humans than they are to their microbat cousins due to their opposing fingers and thumbs. Despite their spooky image they are in fact very cute, especially the babies, three of which were brought to my recording studio earlier this year for what was definitely the weirdest recording session i have ever undertaken. They were rescue bats, hand reared by a volunteer, and although they were used to being handled and bottle fed, they were not toilet trained and had the incredible propensity to projectile defecate on my expensive microphones. The baby bat sounds didn't make the final cut, but it was an unforgettable experience.

The installation, which comprised over 200 life size flying bat sculptures and sound, was a great success, and the original month in Federation Square was extended to two months, and is now making it's way around Australia visiting various cities and festivals on it's mission to demystify these wonderful creatures that suffer from considerable prejudice.]]>
The soundscape represents a day and night in the life of the Grey Headed Flying Fox (aka fruit bats). Starting at dusk from their colony in the Yarra Bend park, an expansive bush land park in the heart of the city of Melbourne, they fly out in their thousands, filling the sky like a scene from a Gothic horror, to the suburbs of Melbourne, where they feed on the nectar of Eucalyptus trees, like those at the bottom of our garden where some of these recordings were made, returning to the colony before dawn.

The recordings were made using a Rode NTG3 shotgun microphone into a Sound Devices 552 recorder. The colony sounds comprise 5 separate tree recordings, basically made by standing underneath a tree loaded with bats, hoping not to get pee'd on because they carry some pretty unpleasant diseases. The garden section comprises 2 separate recordings made in a similar way.

This is a stereo version, collapsed from the original 5 channel mix, which were assigned to 5 speakers around the atrium to create a surround sound. I mapped wing beating sounds to travel around the atrium, causing members of the unsuspecting public to duck for cover on occasion. The original looped to approximate their daily life cycle of colony > commute to work to put food in the belly > commute to home colony > repeat, not unlike another mammal that comes to mind.

In fact these megabats are thought to be more closely related to us humans than they are to their microbat cousins due to their opposing fingers and thumbs. Despite their spooky image they are in fact very cute, especially the babies, three of which were brought to my recording studio earlier this year for what was definitely the weirdest recording session i have ever undertaken. They were rescue bats, hand reared by a volunteer, and although they were used to being handled and bottle fed, they were not toilet trained and had the incredible propensity to projectile defecate on my expensive microphones. The baby bat sounds didn't make the final cut, but it was an unforgettable experience.

The installation, which comprised over 200 life size flying bat sculptures and sound, was a great success, and the original month in Federation Square was extended to two months, and is now making it's way around Australia visiting various cities and festivals on it's mission to demystify these wonderful creatures that suffer from considerable prejudice.]]> commute to work to put food in the belly > commute to home colony > repeat, not unlike another mammal that comes to mind. In fact these megabats are thought to be more closely related to us humans than they are to their microbat cousins due to their opposing fingers and thumbs. Despite their spooky image they are in fact very cute, especially the babies, three of which were brought to my recording studio earlier this year for what was definitely the weirdest recording session i have ever undertaken. They were rescue bats, hand reared by a volunteer, and although they were used to being handled and bottle fed, they were not toilet trained and had the incredible propensity to projectile defecate on my expensive microphones. The baby bat sounds didn't make the final cut, but it was an unforgettable experience. The installation, which comprised over 200 life size flying bat sculptures and sound, was a great success, and the original month in Federation Square was extended to two months, and is now making it's way around Australia visiting various cities and festivals on it's mission to demystify these wonderful creatures that suffer from considerable prejudice.]]> 1464566 no no Mon, 25 May 2015 02:40:54 +0200 2015-05-25T02:40:54+02:00 2:15 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/vessel/
PS. A general note to Australia - How about remembering that these people (refugees/asylum seekers are humans, and wouldn't you do the same in their shoes? But thank your lucky stars that you're not, and you are not risking your life on some overloaded, leaking boat, and maybe abide by international law & let these people into Australia, and when they get here let them work. For fucks sake.





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PS. A general note to Australia - How about remembering that these people (refugees/asylum seekers are humans, and wouldn't you do the same in their shoes? But thank your lucky stars that you're not, and you are not risking your life on some overloaded, leaking boat, and maybe abide by international law & let these people into Australia, and when they get here let them work. For fucks sake.





]]> 1464567 no no Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:08:47 +0100 2014-12-13T01:08:47+01:00 4:34 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/liberty-of-the-press-state-library-of-victoria/ 1464568 no no Tue, 09 Sep 2014 05:42:07 +0200 2014-09-09T05:42:07+02:00 16:25 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/confessional/ a UA 610B pre. Church recorded with a pair of AKG414's > RME FW400. Written & directed by Penelope Bartlau.
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]]> a UA 610B pre. Church recorded with a pair of AKG414's > RME FW400. Written & directed by Penelope Bartlau. ]]> 1464569 no no Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:26:45 +0200 2014-07-14T09:26:45+02:00 24:10 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/queerum-shortened-edit/ 1464570 no no Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:20:33 +0200 2014-06-11T09:20:33+02:00 10:09 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/behind-the-public-eye-festival-of-live-art-melbourne/ 1464571 no no Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:51:21 +0200 2014-06-11T08:51:21+02:00 12:27 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/bathing-beauties-festival-of-live-art-melbourne/ 1464572 no no Tue, 27 May 2014 07:17:31 +0200 2014-05-27T07:17:31+02:00 7:04 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/esther-williams-part-2/ 1464573 no no Wed, 09 Apr 2014 06:12:42 +0200 2014-04-09T06:12:42+02:00 5:23 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/evolution/ http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/cd_tracks.php?cdnumber=RMCD%202077]]> http://www.dewolfe.co.uk/musicsearch/cd_tracks.php?cdnumber=RMCD%202077]]> 1464574 no no Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:07:42 +0200 2013-07-29T13:07:42+02:00 5:42 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/kedros-thair-7/ 1464575 no no Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:01:56 +0200 2013-07-29T07:01:56+02:00 2:23 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/view-from-seat/ 1464576 no no Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:59:11 +0100 2011-11-02T14:59:11+01:00 5:16 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/untitled/ 1464577 no no Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:49:58 +0100 2011-11-02T14:49:58+01:00 3:06 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/sunrise/ 1464578 no no Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:41:41 +0100 2011-11-02T14:41:41+01:00 4:30 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/the-grapes-of-wrath/ 1464579 no no Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:55:27 +0100 2011-03-23T15:55:27+01:00 7:02 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/george-smiley/ 1464580 no no Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:21:03 +0100 2011-03-23T15:21:03+01:00 4:14 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/ 1464581 no no Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:50:35 +0100 2011-03-23T14:50:35+01:00 5:54 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/cities-in-the-sky-darker/ You can watch the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVHcWGOif8]]> You can watch the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVHcWGOif8]]> 1464582 no no Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:03:10 +0200 2010-09-15T14:03:10+02:00 2:10 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/cities-in-the-sky/ You can watch the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVHcWGOif8]]> You can watch the film here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVHcWGOif8]]> 1464583 no no Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:14:11 +0200 2010-08-24T23:14:11+02:00 4:08 https://hearthis.at/sonic-state-design-6j/camberwell-beauty/ ]]> ]]> 1464584 no no Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:36:16 +0200 2010-08-24T22:36:16+02:00 17:05