Soundtracks, soundscapes and podcasts
Here I list the soundtracks, soundscapes and podcasts that I have made, often as part of my audio company Woeha. In most cases you can listen to these tracks on other pages or in podcast apps, here I mainly provide the links.
Pandemiegesprekken (2022)
The pandemiegesprekken is a podcast series of the Studium General (Hogent) on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on domestic violence and health care professionals. This is the link to the podcast webpage where you can listen to the first episode. I did the audio editing and created the sound tracks (audio tune).
Unreliable Archives (2022)
Together with Rona Kennedy I created six audio stories and a background soundtrack for her installation-performance Unreliable Archives. This is a link to her homepage. This is another page with sound fragments from this installation. Rona did the (field) interviews while I edited the voices and created the music and soundtracks.
GMF Talks (2022-now)
Together with volunteers of the environmental organization Gents Milieufront I make the podcast GMF talks. A group of volunteers prepares each episode, I help with (part of) the recording, audio editing, mixing and created a tune. The first episode deals with urban heat islands, the second with degrowth.
Radio Forest Sessions (2021)
This is a soundscape that I have made for the Radio Forest Sessions exposition of Musica (in October 2021). During one hour recordings and talks (with Ruben Orio and me) are served about the Street Sonatas performances in Ghent harbour. The music recordings were made on a performance in June 2021, later I added interviews and environmental recordings of the harbour. The Musica website was totally updated in 2022, the original web page of this Radio Forest Session seems to have disappeared. Here you can listen to this soundscape:
Winterreise (2021)
This is an audio story with the singer Zeger Vandersteene telling about the song cycle Winterreise of Schubert. We recorded and edited the voice recordings and next, added a new sound track. All this was done for the art center Postx. There is still a postx webpage on the overall project but the youtube link with the recording has gone. Here you can listen to this audio story (in Dutch):
COLO (2005)
In 1998 I wrote an ensemble piece called Nowhere's Chaos which was performed several times at the November Music Festival in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. As the recording of the piece wasn't very successful and a strange combination of instruments was used, years after the concerts I found this piece rather "useless". I started using the recording as raw material for all kinds of audio electronics (experimenting with the Reaktor software). In the original version Nowhere's Chaos texts from the Zapatista uprisings in Chiapas (Mexico) were used. Colo is dedicated to the village community of Colo(tenango) in Guatemala where 2 people where killed in March 2005 during protests against a free trade agreement with the US. A few years ago I visited this village and the farmer organisation that organised the protests in March.