Field Recordings is a series created together with Niels Vrijdag. They look for an auditory world for the listener to travel around in; a world built from a continuous curiosity and explorations of (natural) sound fields. The recordings are layered in a soundscape, accompanied by musical elements or simply reproduced as it was captured. Ard Bit uses contact microphones, geofon, shotgun microphones or a handheld recorder.

Ard Bit is the artist project of Ard Janssen, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A composer, sound designer and field recordist who creates audio sculptures which are subtle, layered and characterized with great detail. His musical forms come about through free improvisation and systematic composition with a focus on minimalism.

The recordings for this episode are captured in the versatile fields of Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro and Slovenia, in the summer of 2022. From Sarajevo’s Olympic Bobsleigh to the Cursed Mountains in Albania and back via the small peaceful village Miholjače in Bosnia to the beautiful Kamnik-Savinja Alps in Slovenia. I recorded a lot of material with a Geofón and a Zoom H5. Back home in the studio I added some fragile ambient layers on top.

Total time around 20 minutes.

The colors of the cover artwork were chosen by Rutger Zuydervelt. (Machinefabriek)