Human Field Recordings
A performance by Manuela Barile
Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival, Berlin
November, 12th 2008

“Some people go out with very expensive equipment… and they sit for hours to record… and they put it on another equipment… and then it goes into the computer… and then it goes on a CD… and then it goes into a sound system. But we also use our ears to listen… and if you are gifted with the voice, you use the voice to reproduce those things that you hear…”

Rinus Van Alebeek

Manuela Barile @ DKFRF, Berlin Play Now

Photos by Kurt Korthals

The 3rd edition of the Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival that takes place in Berlin between 1 and 29 August, 2007 presented a special radio day at august 10, 2007. This day consisted of several parts, one taking place exclusively at radioINCORRECT.org. Several artists presented prerecorded works, among those special performances for this event. Some of the performances were presented at Staalplaat’s store in Berlin.

Rinus Van Alebeek, the organizer of the festival, invited Binaural to be part of this radio day, and we gladly prepared a mix of recordings, old and new, from the village of Nodar (old tape recordings, audio from old video footage and new stuff recorded in DAT). All in all, these are recordings from a period between 1987 and 2007, that is 20 years. We concentrated on the voices of local people, creating an evocative social soundscape through the mixing of voices of past and present people, giving a sense of continuity between generations.

Many thanks to Rinus Van Alebeek for this opportunity and to Tobias Luther from radioINCORRECT.org for the technical assistance.

Here is the podcast of our audio mix in Das Kleine Field Recordings Festival:

Nodar Sounds @ Das Kleine Festival Play Now