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Wanderlust #27: Babakan Siliwangi

14 January 2019
  • Soundscape
  • Field Recording
  • Atmospheric
  • Meditative
  • Sensual
  • Summery
  • Delicate

Babakan Siliwangi by Fahmi Mursyid

Field recordings, sounds from : insect / animal sounds, wind, people interaction, vehicle, and river.

– The soundscape composition, all field recordings, processed in spectral synthesis then cut some from mid to low freq for droning sound, granular synthesis are recorded, composed, mixed, and mastered by Fahmi Mursyid, 2018.

About:

*Babakan Siliwangi (also known as Baksil) is a 3.8 Hectare urban forest in Bandung, Indonesia. It is part of the green belt of Bandung and is a recreation place for the locals there. On 27 September, 2011, the United Nations certified Babakan Siliwangi as a world urban forest.

The location of Babakan Siliwangi which is not far from the city center (located north of downtown Bandung) makes Babakan Siliwangi become Green Open Space / Ruang Terbuka Hijau (RTH) which is most affordable by the citizens of Bandung. 

‘Hearing is the sense that is always active, the presence of dangers in the natural environment is probably one of the main reasons why the human body is provided with such a sense.’

– (P. Schaeffer 1982/1983)

Fahmi Mursyid is a contemporary musician, composer, sound designer and producer based in Bandung, Indonesia .

He began releasing recordings under various monikers and labels in 2011-Now.

Fahmi uses found objects (acoustic and electronic instruments) and computer to create glitch sound, sampling, granular synthesis, shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex-simple musicality.

He is also interested in using environmental/foley sounds to express his musical ideas.

Imagine the acoustic instrument severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new-alternative musical language.

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