GRAN CANARIA
1 sound
Gran Canaria is the third-largest and second-most populous of the Canary Islands. This composition attends to the continuous sonic flux created by a plurality of inhabitants and matters (human and other-than-human, living and so-called inanimate). Sounds from mostly unseen sources reverberate throughout the fields and “barrancos”. The fieldwork took place in the outskirts of Las Palmas (the largest city of the archipelago), in the Agaete Valley, and other areas in the northern part of the island. The piece listens to the songs of avian species (blackbird, stone curlew, birds of prey, passerines, woodpeckers), barks, howls, bleats, palm trees and other plants, the wind, machines, and everyday human activities.
Environmental sound matter recorded in Gran Canaria between January and August 2021. Composed in Visby, Gotland and La Mancha, September-October 2021. Special thanks to Josefa Martínez Berriel and William Christian.
