TENERIFE
1 sound
Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands. The fieldwork centred on the Teide National Park, a spacious territory at 2.000 meters of altitude located around Mount Teide (3.715 meters), the highest elevation in all of Spain and among all the islands in the Atlantic Ocean. This composition explores quiet, small and unnoticed sonic events, some of them inaudible to human ears, that occur throughout the expansive, seemingly immobile volcanic mountain landscape. Exploding retama seeds, ELF/VLF atmospheric noise, ultrasonic vocalizations of bats, and the sounds of insects and avian inhabitants. Furthermore, the piece includes underwater recordings made in the ocean, featuring the calls of the short-finned pilot whale and the Blainville beaked whale.
Environmental sound matter recorded in Tenerife in August 2021. Special thanks to Teide National Park. The underwater recordings were kindly provided by Dr Patricia Arranz and Dr Natacha Aguilar, bioacoustic researchers from the University of La Laguna (ULL). The original recordings were made with DTAG suction cup marks and a SOUNDTRAP with authorization from the Governments of Spain and the Canary Islands. Used with permission from ULL and Soundtags (Mark Johnson). Composed in Visby, Gotland and La Mancha, September-October 2021.
