more from
Touch
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Eye of the Microphone

by BJNilsen

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £6.99 GBP  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 14 BJNilsen releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I Am Here, Vinyl, The Eye of the Microphone, The Invisible City, The Short Night, Storm, Fade to White, Land, and 6 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £67.19 GBP or more (30% OFF)

     

  • Limited Edition Compact Disc
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Artwork & photography by Jon Wozencroft. Digipak

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Eye of the Microphone via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
Londinium 10:46
2.
3.

about

Recorded and Mixed in London 2012 – 2013

++ To stroll properly, one should not have any particular plans ++

In 2012 I received a scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust for a one-year Artist in Residency at the UCL Urban Laboratory in London, to introduce sound as an art practice to urban scholars and students. As part of my research I decided to dérive the city.
I spent full days and sometimes nights sweeping the streets and its interiors for sound – walking and listening with no route or intention. A city without sound does not exist. Every location, passageway, alley, road, park, and pub contains its own world of isolated sound events and patterns – the sound of a shopping bag caught by the wind on the asphalt of a busy street when a bus passes by. What seems to be merely a bus is also a cacophony of sounds, a sound world in itself: hydraulics, breaks, interior noise, honking, public announcements, humans, rolling bottles, cell phones, mp3 players. The rattle of an air-conditioning unit in an old pub toilet gradually develops its broken down sound over many years, creating a raga for it own demise. Nobody seems to hear it. Is it there? The choice of sound varies; it’s a personal selection, some sounds made it into this composition, many hours of recording didn’t.

Sound composition can alter space and time and transform a specific location and experience into an imaginary world.

credits

released November 19, 2013

Extended Digipak – 3 tracks – 43:19
Mastered By Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering
Artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft

Cover Photography
St. Paul’s as seen from the London Eye. Cranes rebuilding the City – a highchair for birdsong…

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

BJNilsen Amsterdam, Netherlands

BJ Nilsen Is a sound and recording artist. His work is based on the sound of nature and its effect on humans. He primarily uses field recordings and electronic composition as a working method. He has worked for film, television, theatre, dance and as sound designer. His latest album is “Eye Of The Microphone” [Touch, 2013] - a somewhat surreal audio rendition of the sounds of The City of London. ... more

contact / help

Contact BJNilsen

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like BJNilsen, you may also like: