Media contributions
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Title Sound Sensations from Scotland Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet ToneShift Media type Web Country/Territory United States Date 28/10/19 Description A short record (26 mins), and an introduction to Irish composer Linda O’Keefe these three pieces infuse competing variables as a: “meditation on human and natural sounds, new technologies, and our relationships with other species.” As a lover of living creatures outside the human realm, this collection of watery murmurs are complex, unfamiliar and altogether a cluster of curiosity.
Silent Spring is a true celebration of field recordings made in Iceland (hydroelectric dam) Spain (wind turbine farms) and amidst the threatened Brazilian Amazon. The gulls opposing the fluid mechanisms on Icelandic Reveries actually has a strange ring to it, associative and otherwise. O’Keefe combines her collected sounds in collagist patterns that seem to emphasize tensions and harmonies between species of all sizes, with a particular focus on human nature. The fact that she has traveled to these particular locations will be of interest to not only sound lovers but also environmentalists, and those seriously combatting the raw truth and reality of climate change. The voices are calling, speaking in disparate tongues.Producer/Author TJ Norris Persons Linda O'Keeffe