Over the past ten years, Soundwalk Collective has won international recognition for their work of abstracting and re-composing narrative sound pieces through fragments of reality, and by forging evocative journeys in sound that are exhibited in the form of sound installation and performance. This Anniversary Series will showcase selected works that have both defined and defied the soundscape genre. Tday's broadcast is "Empty Quarter: recordings from the Rub' Al Khali desert 2009." Much like an anthropologist doing fieldwork in a marginal land, Soundwalk Collective went on a 45-day journey through this desert of deserts, the crossroads of the Arabic civilization, recording hundreds of hours of sonic fragments. The result is a reflection on silence, an hypnotic meditation on a forsaken world, transience and the footprints left by man on earth. Sounds collected here know no boundaries, just as the nomadic traditions remind us.
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