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Paolo G​à​iba Riva - Does a noise pollution free place exist?

from Field Music and Non​-​Music for Tian Ye by LEAP

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After a trip to Southeast Asia I collected many recordings, in most of
 which a human factor is present. 
From a bus station in the countryside at night to the apparent 
remoteness of small island hills. 
If we carefully listen to our surroundings, we will notice our presence. 
Have manmade machine sounds already become a part of the natural acoustic
environment? Is our voice a mechanic one? For one reason or another, our unstoppable activities (driving,
 logging, cruising, operating in factories, praying, etc.) acoustically 
fill anywhere we are at any time of the day.
 After hours in deep listening, my conclusion is that
 there are probably only a handful of places left on this planet where we 
can supposedly find apparent absence of noise pollution.
 Nature is there to "play" and remind us that we are not the only ones living
 here.
 The 5 extracts are presented from the most to the least urbanized of the places I visited.



1) Night at the bus station in Trat, Thailand

2) Muezzin calls from a hill in the middle of Malang, Indonesia

3) Small jungle village at work in the outskirts of Jogjakarta, Indonesia

4) Boat roaring in the distance. Koh Rong Island, Cambodia

5) Hum of the boats and factories. Recording from Penang national park, Malaysia

Paolo Gàiba Riva is an Italian musician working with hardware noise, field recordings and clarinet improvisation.

东南亚之行中我收集了很多录音，其中大多数都有人类的介入。从夜晚乡村的公交站，到非常偏远的热带岛屿山丘，如果我们仔细听，可以发现我们的存在。人造机器的声音是否已经成为自然声学环境的一部分？我们的声音是机器的声音吗？在一天中的任何时候我们这些不休止的活动（比如驾驶、伐木、游荡、工厂操作、祈祷等等）都充斥着我们的听觉。经过数小时的深入聆听，我推测的结论是，在这个星球上可能只剩下几个地方，不能发现明显的噪音污染。大自然在那里“演奏”，并提醒我们，并不只有我们生活在这里。以下是我所经历的城市化程度由高至低的五个片段：

1）夜晚的泰国达勒汽车站。
2）印度尼西亚玛琅中部的一座山上，穆斯林宣礼员的声音。
3）在印度尼西亚日惹市郊，一个丛林村庄在工作。
4）柬埔寨高龙岛，船在远处轰鸣。
5）在马来西亚槟城国家公园录到的船只和工厂的嗡鸣。

保罗·盖巴·里瓦 （Paolo Gàiba Riva）是一名来自意大利的噪音和即兴乐手，常年在东亚和东南亚巡演。2018年在燥眠夜发行了磁带《入冬前收获了南瓜》。

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