Regeneration
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Regeneration

Tomáš Šenkyřík, Zelinka

The recording offers a time-lapse sound portrait of the Zelinka wetland within the Záhorie Protected Landscape Area in Slovakia. It documents the evolving soundscapes as winter transitions into the pre-spring and spring seasons.

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Parts

  1. Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová, Erosion
  2. Ólafur Arnalds
  3. Bjarki Bragason, Before Present
  4. Ladislav Miko
  5. Tomáš Šenkyřík, Zelinka
  6. Kristína Jamrichová, And clouds of dust and sand used to rise over the plain...
  7. Lucie Lučanská, Scratching the surface
  8. Ruta Putramentaite & Jonáš Richter, you deassemble and reassemble me again
  9. Hana Šantrůčková
  10. Marina Hendrychová, Lycaeon
  11. Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Time and Again & Time and Tide
  12. Karel Prach
  13. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Epidermis
  14. Magdalena Manderlová, HISS
  15. Thomas Pausz, Making New Land / Silica Cinema
  16. Jana Stachová
  17. Wiola Ujazdowska, The Prophecy of Lupine the Sun that Never Sets
  18. Gústaf Jarl Viðarsson
  19. Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, Interspecies Dreaming
  20. In Search of Porcelain
  21. Landscape of Iceland
  22. Radek Štěpánek, Erosion

Tomáš Šenkyřík, Zelinka

Zelinka, audio recording, 00:29:16, 2023

The recording offers a time-lapse sound portrait of the Zelinka wetland within the Záhorie Protected Landscape Area in Slovakia. It documents the evolving soundscapes as winter transitions into the pre-spring and spring seasons. The audio track also highlights how water within the landscape positively influences biodiversity and enriches the soundscapes. During the communist era, water was drained from the wetland and diverted through land “improvement” measures. As there are no recordings, we can only imagine how the landscape sounded during this period of systematic drying. However, accounts from contemporaries suggest that the soundscape was significantly poorer, by about 80%, indicating a cascade of other negative impacts on the land. The audio track underscores the significance of environmental actions that help restore nature to its original state. Pay attention to the natural and gentle echoes of songbirds (like the song thrush heard towards the end) which are caused by the very presence of water in the landscape. This natural sound quality, so to speak, bestowed upon us by the land itself, has a beneficial and uplifting effect when listened to attentively.

Tomáš Šenkyřík (CZ) is a musicologist with an interest in field recordings. He is interested in acoustic ecology and discovering musical structures in sound environments. He is fascinated by finding musical qualities in dialogues between natural and unnatural sounds. He likes private listening to nature without noise pollution, especially to fragile and quiet sounds. From 1999 to 2008, he worked as an ethnomusicologist at the Museum of Romani culture. He is a member of Skupina, an artist group for field-recordings, soundscape, oral & aural history, and acoustic ecology.

Compilations:

H2O, compilation - Sonic Field (2015)

Open the window, compilation - Linear Obsessional London (2015)

Earth (listening), compilation - Sonospace label (2016) 

Solo field recordings albums:

Hrklávka - Skupina label (2016)

Holubníci - LOM Label SK (2020)

Voda - self-released (2021)

Jaro - self-released (2023)

Sound field recordings installation:

Lignite clouds, Díra Gallery, Prague, Czechia - with Peter Cusack (2015)

Water and Earth, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, four channel installation (2021) Sound portrait of floodplain forest Plačkův les, OGV Gallery, Jihlava, Czechia (2021)

Earth, Gallery Atrium Žižkov, Prague (2023)

 

Photography by Kristína Jamrichová

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