this week we continue our look back at some early framework:afield classics, as we revisit our first ever “official” bimonthly edition of the series, produced in new york city by artist, publisher and printer ben owen, and first broadcast on the 5th of may, 2006. it is comprised of recordings of a live performance from october, 2005, featuring a real-time mix of raw field recordings by a collective of local phonographers, the nyc phonographers union. for more information follow the artist links in the playlist below. [artist / description / link] Albert Casais Composed of location recordings and improvisations with found objects(found at the location) made at Shark River in Neptune, New Jersey. https://www.discogs.com/artist/147819-Omnid Richard Garet The source was recorded from a dog camp on top of a glazier in alaska during summer 2005. http://www.richardgaret.com, https://richardgaret.bandcamp.com Bruce Tovsky UNDERPASS [excerpt] live mix of binaural recordings made of resonant spaces in and around the bridges and highways of DUMBO and Williamsburg in Brooklyn. https://brooklynimagelab.org/, http://www.skeletonhome.com Andy Hayleck Four recordings in succession: melting pond ice, a metal box in the wind, close up of a single wasp in its nest, and crackling shrimp recorded with a failing hydrophone. https://www.discogs.com/artist/964368-Andy-Hayleck, https://soundcloud.com/andy-hayleck Ben Owen bugs attracted to light, binaural recording in acra NY, and cicada’s in Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto Japan. 2005. https://www.discogs.com/artist/300897-Ben-Owen, https://ben-owen.bandcamp.com/ Seth Cluett For the garden performance you will hear field recordings from sicily and calabria in southern italy. the main sounds are a bell ringing inside a church, a group of women singing recorded from outside of a church, waves from the ionian sea recorded at foot level with a microphone on each leg, water drips from a 400 year old gutter in the town of Patti, and birds recorded through a bamboo fence in the palermo botanical garden. https://sethcluett.com

"Framework" is consecrated to field-recording and the use of field recordings in composition, and began broadcasting at a time when a new community of sound artists with a special interest in found sound was developing, a community spread across the world that, thanks to the internet, was no longer limited to a specific geography. "Framework" began broadcasting in June, 2002 on the newly reformed Resonance 104.4-FM in London. The show now airs on 12 radio stations around the world and streams and podcasts on its own website. "Framework" sees itself as an outlet for this ever-growing and developing community, a folk-tool in a new folk movement, a community driven exchange point for creators and listeners alike. The show's goal is to present not only the extremely diverse sound environments of our world, but also the extremely diverse work that is being produced by the artists who choose to use these environments as their sonic sources. We hope to ask this question: is ‘field-recording’ a style or a genre, or is it in fact as uncontrollable and undefinable an instrument or tool as any, that may be interpreted, manipulated, and appropriated by anyone with a microphone and an idea? These works are its definition, and not vice versa.

"Framework" broadcasts two distinct alternating formats, a regular edition, constructed and mixed by its presenter from contributions submitted by listeners and members of the field-recording community, and framework:afield, a guest-curated series produced by artists from all corners of the globe and based on their own themes, concepts or recordings. We see radio and the ability to broadcast as an important tool for any self-sustaining community, a way for it to communicate with its own members and with the world at large, a simultaneous staking of territory and invitation in. to quote the text that opens every edition of framework, open your ears and listen. Visit the framework website.