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Early morning in Kagbeni, Mustang,Nepal. In the background the Anapurna.
About the recording: In the afternoon we visited the Kag Chode Thupten Samphel Ling or Sakya Monastery founded by Tenpai Gyaltsen in 1429. When the light went off around 10 o'clock the monks started their celebration in the monastery.
I put my Zoom H2 into the open window of our bathroom to record the ceremony which happend 200 meters away. So you'll get the door, the water tripping, ... animals.
Kagbeni August 9th 2008
A religious object to "pray" for everlasting sexual potential.
Prayer mills at Swoyambhu Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Recorded by Soundman OKM and Zoom H2 August 5th 2008.
On the way to Swoyambhu Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.
A nice ambience of hungry cows (holy), cars (too many) and people who do their work in their shops.
Recorded with Soundman OKM and Zoom H2 on August 5th 2008.
Dear Bikemike blog listener, reader & viewer!
You will ask yourself with reason: "When are new uploads coming?". Yes there will be new recordings, but the last three month I have been totally busy composing music for theatre. So I hardly found time to make decisions what audiofiles are bikemike-ready.
Hot NEWS!
On Monday, the 4th of August I will fly with my wife to West-Tibet to do some filming and sound-recordings for a project for 2009. Early September I will present you some sound-recordings from Tibet., promised!
Bikemike
London, Greenwich - A footwalk under River Thames from 1902 or 1906.
It was Saturday, so many people walked from the nice Greenwich market to Canary Warf.
The tunnel is about 200 meters long and some meters under River Thames.
Recorded with my Panasonic NV-DS25 videocamera.
The "Urfahrmarkt" is a hybrid of market, lunapark and october fest in Linz, Austria.
Twice a year in spring and autumn people enjoy delicous food like Schaumrollen (see the pic), beer in hudge glasses, Bratwürstel, etc. and enjoy their life.
Get an idea how the Urfahrmarkt sounds during the day when I passed by with my bike. The lunapark people boost their soundsystem to the limits to attract youngsters to do use their high tech funmachines.
Recorded with Soundman OKM (on the limit) and DAT.
Taken on Jan 1, 2008 1:17:07 AM
Tags: firworks, grado, dorninger, italy
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, Fireworks (07/08) in Grado, Italy by Wolfgang Dorn...
On the Grado beach 1.1.2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND PEACE ON EARTH!
My wife and I like to stay in Grado, Italy to party New Year. We did this several time to celebrate the new year and to frighten away bad ghosts with heavy fireworks.
The fireworks had been recorded on the beach with DAT and Soundman OKM.
Enjoy 2008, stay tuned, healthy and take care.
Wolfgang aka BikeMike
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Taken on Oct 4, 2007 8:26:21 AM
Tags: dorninger, bahnhofsplatz, graz, fadi
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, by Wolfgang Dorninger
News - Part 1!
August 2nd 2007 I've started with interviews for the video-documentary "in the fields / Feldaufnahmen Pt.1". End of May 2008 base records will release a DVD of "in the fields / Feldaufnahmen" but also all interviews on archive.org under creative common non-commercial license. In terms of budget Part 2 of the documentary will be an ongoing project with no deadline or release date doing interviews on my travels all over the world and with those who find the way to Linz, Austria or near around. I have so many people on my list I can't reach for Pt.1 that its hard to say when Pt.2 will be finished.
What is the ambition of my project: First, to show how artists work with the "instrument" microphon, how they implement concrete sound-sources into their art and to show the diversity and richness of this artform. Second, to create an ongoing documentation on sound-artists who expand or work within the term phonography.
The city of Linz gave me some money so I can travel around within Europe to meet sound-artists not only for this documentary. Until now I completed 2 routes to Berlin and around (by car) and to Amsterdam and around (by train).
Route 3 leads me to Graz & Frankfurt (September), Route 4 to the Baltikum.
My interview partners until now are:
On Route 1 (early August):
Marcus Obst (Crottendorf), Patrick Franke (Leipzig), Debashis Sinha (Toronto), Yannick Frank (Heure-le-Romain, Belgium), Rauschpartikel (Berlin), Rinus van Alebeek (Berlin)
On Route 2 (early Septmber):
Janek Schaefer ( Walton-on-Thames, UK), Harold Schellinx (Amsterdam/Paris), Matthijs Vincent Kouw (Utrecht), Chris Watson (Newcastle)
On Route 3 (mid-September to mid-october):
Justin Bennett (Den Haag), Lasse-Marc Riek (Frankfurt), Roland Etzin (Frankfurt), Camilla Hannan (Austrialia).
On October 10th I'll do an interview with Jacob Kirkegaard and hopefully but not confirmed until now an interview with Francisco Lopez on the 3rd of October.
If you are around Linz, Austria feel free to contact me:
Wolfgang Dorninger fadi (at) servus (dot) at
1* The name BikeMike?
I love to ride bicycles, I like to record concrete acoustic situationes with microphones. Sometimes i do both at the same time, not that often because than I have to ride slowly.
2* What are the sources?
I am mainly interested on the crossing between technology and human. My main interest is how city plannings change the way of life in a city. So BikeMike has not that much to do with recordings from nature.
3* What is your ambition?
Just to document how people live and how technolgy changes the flow of a community. For example how a highway divides urban space in two seperate living spaces or how people in South America occupy public space.
4* field recordings and soundart?
Some of my music-compositions or sound-installtions base on recordings done with microphones like "Asten" or "fadi@vilnius.lt".
5* what microphones do you use?
AKG 414 Mk.II or Soundman OKM Mk.II
6* Why is your English bumpy?
I am from Austria, my mother-language is German. Sometimes my English is betetr sometimes worser, depends on the day :)
Taken on Sep 7, 2007 9:23:07 AM
Tags: dorninger, soundman, amsterdam
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Taken on Sep 6, 2007 9:29:48 AM
Tags: dorninger, soundman, amsterdam
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Taken on Sep 5, 2007 9:10:28 AM
Tags: amsterdam, dorninger, bikemike
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The longest sound-file until now:7 minutes - a little symphony of technical achievments.
Winter hit cars hard in Austria . So we moved over to my neighboors car-wash plant to get the car ready for summer.
We had a full program car wash, had nothing to do except closing the windows and wait for the green light at the end of the tunnel. At the end I opened the right window. Job done.
Enjoy the soundfile!
Tech-spec: mic: Soundman, car: Fiat Punto, car-wash plant: Megawash
A Greyhound busride to Bisbee at the end of January 2001.
The recording is a mix of bad road, old bus and agressive driving style. Play it loud and animate the picture.
Taken on Apr 7, 2007 8:04:24 PM
Tags: dorninger, arizona, soundman microphon, busride
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This recording was done with a DAT and a noname microphone to test the acoustic situation in a hudge industrial building in Essen, Germany.
20 - 30 years ago in this space - some floors high - coal was delivered into the Kokerei Zollverein (cocking plant).
What a beautiful reverb! I walked over 3 floors when I did this recording. The recorder was placed in the middle of the Kokerei.
Some month later I did an acoustic test with 8 microphones and a multitrack recorder. More soundfiles soon.
