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 ==== Spectres Residency 02019 ==== ==== Spectres Residency 02019 ====
  
-Residency fieldnotes (maj & nik - {{fa>map-o}} DRAFT)+[[spectres_02019|spectres in change]] residency fieldnotes. Seili, Archipelago Sea. May 02019 (maja & nik - {{fa>map-o}} DRAFT)
  
 ====Friday 020190517==== ====Friday 020190517====
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   * Setup working space    * Setup working space 
   * Walking, listening, foraging   * Walking, listening, foraging
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 ====Saturday - Sunday 020190518-19==== ====Saturday - Sunday 020190518-19====
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   * tasting the island   * tasting the island
-  * allium schorodoprasum (viking leek / sand leek) by comparison, allium ampeloprasum commonly known as wild leek or broadleaf wild leek when growing wild, has been differentiated into four cultivated vegetables, leek, elephant garlic, kurrat and Persian leek. +  * //allium schorodoprasum// (viking leek / sand leek) by comparison, //allium ampeloprasum// commonly known as wild leek or broadleaf wild leek when growing wild, has been differentiated into four cultivated vegetables, leek, elephant garlic, kurrat and Persian leek. 
-  * allium schoenoprasum (chive like) +  * //allium schoenoprasum// (chive like) 
-  * allium ursinum (ramson)+  * //allium ursinum// (ramson)
   * pine tips   * pine tips
   * dandelions   * dandelions
-  * nettles (Urtica dioica)+  * nettles (//Urtica dioica//)
   * wood sorrel   * wood sorrel
  
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   * foraging and culinary experiments (wild alliums and oat cream risotto, sauteed pine tips with finnish grilled cheese, porridge with cowslip and strawberry coulis, wood sorrel lemonade)   * foraging and culinary experiments (wild alliums and oat cream risotto, sauteed pine tips with finnish grilled cheese, porridge with cowslip and strawberry coulis, wood sorrel lemonade)
  
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48020060091/in/album-72157683096135201/}}
  
 ====Monday 020190520==== ====Monday 020190520====
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   * travel planning   * travel planning
  
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48018333726/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
  
 ====Tuesday 020190521==== ====Tuesday 020190521====
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   * Afternoon - plotting possible soundwalk (GPX track saved), video sketch of the walk   * Afternoon - plotting possible soundwalk (GPX track saved), video sketch of the walk
   * Discussion - some propositions (and patterns) in response to the open questions guiding our residency   * Discussion - some propositions (and patterns) in response to the open questions guiding our residency
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48020096153/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
  
  
-Ecological attunement+===Ecological attunement===
  
 How do we attune to an environment? Through "raw" human senses and when we augment the senses using tools, instruments and/or digital devices. What attunement techniques are we using?  How do we attune to an environment? Through "raw" human senses and when we augment the senses using tools, instruments and/or digital devices. What attunement techniques are we using? 
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   * Minimally intrusive technologies that enhance and/or remind (rather than distract) while being in an environment (e.g wearable, aural interfaces, HUD; no cables, no buttons, etc)   * Minimally intrusive technologies that enhance and/or remind (rather than distract) while being in an environment (e.g wearable, aural interfaces, HUD; no cables, no buttons, etc)
   * Technologies to focus (or maintain) attention in different ways - digital, chemical, biological, philosophical (...) technologies for the alteration or augmentation of the spectrum of human perception   * Technologies to focus (or maintain) attention in different ways - digital, chemical, biological, philosophical (...) technologies for the alteration or augmentation of the spectrum of human perception
-  * e.g. {{...}} +  * e.g. (...
   * Ambient overlays along the lines of 'native land' app to remind/prompt/tempt https://native-land.ca/   * Ambient overlays along the lines of 'native land' app to remind/prompt/tempt https://native-land.ca/
   * sonifcation and/or filters based on local environmental data as modulators of experience (e.g. rjdj -> augment )   * sonifcation and/or filters based on local environmental data as modulators of experience (e.g. rjdj -> augment )
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 What instruments could we devise to experience ecological transformations at a human scale?  What instruments could we devise to experience ecological transformations at a human scale? 
-  * speculative experiments/exercises -> towards tech-specs for thalient technology {{e.g. ... }}+  * speculative experiments/exercises -> towards tech-specs for thalient technology (e.g. ... )
   * tâtonnement v trial & error v solutionism -> ?+  ("par tâtonnements" and/or "suck it and see")   * tâtonnement v trial & error v solutionism -> ?+  ("par tâtonnements" and/or "suck it and see")
   * 'feeling around' climate models, time series, etc.    * 'feeling around' climate models, time series, etc. 
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-====Experiential learning====+===Experiential learning===
  
 How can we transform abstract data into embodied sensations, processes that can be experienced instead of (and as well as) explained? How can we transform abstract data into embodied sensations, processes that can be experienced instead of (and as well as) explained?
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-====Acts of care====+===Acts of care===
  
 How can the act of observing be an act of caring? How can you care for something able to consume you or make you ill? How can the act of observing be an act of caring? How can you care for something able to consume you or make you ill?
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   * plants, flowers especially continue their rapid growth, opening  to the warmth, blosoming, air thickened with pollen, bees.   * plants, flowers especially continue their rapid growth, opening  to the warmth, blosoming, air thickened with pollen, bees.
  
 +
 +
 +====Thursday 020190523====
 +(further) exploration
 +  * morning recording by the church
 +  * further entanglements with names, naming and the unnamed (unspoken)
 +  * data conversion & sonification tests using tick data -> supercollider 
 +  * midnight recording by the sauna and the moth collection instrument
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48018411397/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
 +
 +====Friday 020190524===
 +(further) exploration, synthesis
 +  * (pre)dawn recording (rain, birds, moths, fridge)
 +  * recording & edits review
 +  * photographic review
 +  * sound and video from Spectral Salon uploaded to soundcloud, bandcamp and vimeo
 +  * hydropone recordings
 +  * re-threading the various weaves of the week
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48020101608/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
 +
 +====Saturday 020190525====
 +conclusions, departures (Seili) and arrivals (Turku, Helsinki)
 +  * found the first human resident tick of the journey. removed it with the "tick remover"
 +  * Taking our leave, (landing in reverse), rite of parting (gifts, composting) and farewells (loop walk, ...), gratitude, "peeling ourselves off the surfaces of the island", separation, sedimentation, "little death", leave no trace, no heavy footprints only light (digital) handprints
 +
 +
 +
 +====in conclusion...====
 +  * write up field notes & blog post (foam site, medium, taru, other?
 +  * selected photos -> flickr, instagram etc.  #visitseili
 +  * collate recordings, cuts & edits -> condense sound piece "post-glacial rebound"  (in line with "how the terms...")
 +  * general libarynth data dump (inc. what to do with the sound path video, samples, and other draft media?)
 +  * sumarise potential directions and discuss with Taru
 +  * follow up sonification of ARI data w. Katja
 +  * some re-ravelling and weaving before departure...
 +
 +
 +
 +====potential directions... ====
 +
 +immediately visible would be the fieldnotes & documentation from the residency, there are some suggestions for further reading and writing (e.g. with CAA, a possible reader and following specific threads/ideas/metaphors/etc. [con]textually) in particular the archipelago and/or spectres and/or post-glacial rebound.
 +
 +there is some obvious potential in the sound material. we'll work on another 'resonance' piece (in line with "ephemeral garden", the dust & shadow soundwalk and "...in their concreteness are identical") if there is interest (and resources) this could develop into a soundwalk for the island (guided and/or autonomous) an installation (on the island or elsewhere) or something else...
 +
 +sonification of time series might provide an opening for further collaboration either with ARI and/or FoAM kernow if there is interest. this could involve some kind of soundscape and/or ambient display of time series (w. varying degrees of 'instrumentation' and/or direct 'use' and/or aesthetic resonances) a 'feeling around' of climate models, time series, etc.  We might be able to use this data to modulate the field recordings in the resonance piece and/or soundwalk/installation
 +
 +in the medium term, perhaps some prototyping/futuring sessions e.g. workshop with climate/extinction dinner and/or preenactments. there are many potential questions and some specific ideas (which would need further elaboration) e.g. creating prototypes/scenarios for "technologies to help us attune to our surroundings" this could include ambient/overlay/immersive ways to entangle stories w. physical island, developing prompts, using lotek and/or hitek approaches to enable attuning to current and possible worlds (eg. an ARN on the island).
 +
 +as part of a broader effort to explore/create/appropriate shared & solitary rituals/observances/ceremonies/séances etc. for secular societies, there may be some particulars to the island and/or archipelago.
 +
 +modes of attunement -> sensory (listening, tasting...), imaginative, tentative, speculative
 +
 +====questions that remain...====
 +
 +while we've been guided by a set of questions (see above) not all can be answered definitively and many remain present. during the week, we've made suggestions, found some tentative, situated answers and formed a few contingent propositions. there are, of course, many other ways of addressing these questions and the conceptual/contextual spaces they open up. we set out to "become familiar with the phenomena on the island and to explore their implications, without immediately confirming or rejecting any hypotheses." in this, we have...
 +
 +during the week several other questions arose (see above) or were clarified, some quite specific, others more general (e.g. "How can we extend small-scale experiences more deliberately to evoke wider ranging effects and/or unexpected resonances?") we'll attempt to elucidate further when we write up the fieldnotes and/or any further texts.
 +
 +...and then the "what? so what? now what?" loop, which might also be answered more lucidly after departure. some of the "now what?" are outlined as "potential directions" others depend on options/opportunities around CAA (or in which they take the initiative) there are some specifics (e.g. the ARI interested in extending their science communication), however if we intend to continue the work we may need to look more explicitly at existing or potential boundary objects. (e.g. during this week. time series, microscopy, the physical island, inhabitants of seili (corvid & non-corvid), etc.) 
 +
 +
 +{{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/PGR_Paulson2007_Rate_of_Lithospheric_Uplift_due_to_post-glacial_rebound.png/791px-PGR_Paulson2007_Rate_of_Lithospheric_Uplift_due_to_post-glacial_rebound.png}}
 +
 +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound|post glacial rebound]] and our [[Post Glacial Rebound]] soundwalk
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48018341463/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
 +
 +====refs & reading...====
 +  * (usual suspects. see [[reading notes]])
 +  * Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Caroline Schuppli and Carel P. van Schaik  https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.1 
 +  * Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. B. S. Steidinger, T. W. Crowther [...] & GFBI consortium. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1128-0
 +  * (i.e. "the underground network of microbes that connects trees" -> https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/wood-wide-web-underground-network-microbes-connects-trees-mapped-first-time )
 +  * [[Landmarks]] (2015) Robert MacFarlane.
 +  * "unburial" (non-linear histories and artifacts exposed by climate change & glacial melting esp. frozen corpses) via Robert MacFarlane in Underland
 +  * possibly -> Matters of Care (2017) Maria Puig de la Bellacasa. Boundary Objects and Beyond (2016) eds  Bowker, Timmermans, Clarke and Balka.
 +  * The Sonification Handbook (2011) Edited by Thomas Hermann, Andy Hunt, John G. Neuhoff.  https://sonification.de/handbook/
 +
 +
 +====recording notes====
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/48018418987/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
 +
 +Zoom H6. Sennheiser Ambeo. tripod mounted at 1m.
 +  * 2019-05-18 - ZOOM0235-4ch.flac - rocks near sauna. around 10h
 +  * 2019-05-18 - ZOOM0236-4ch.flac - 
 +  * 2019-05-18 - ZOOM0237-4ch.flac - leper's rock. around sunset ~22h
 +  * 2019-05-18 - ZOOM0238-4ch.flac - walking across leaves/moss/branches
 +  * 2019-05-19 - ZOOM0239-4ch.flac - rocks near sauna. around sunset ~22h
 +  * 2019-05-20 - ZOOM0240-4ch.flac - viking garden, around 10h. some wind distortion.
 +  * 2019-05-21 - ZOOM0241-4ch.flac - reeds NW of the institute. island of noisy birds. boats. possible preditors. around 8h
 +  * 2019-05-22 - ZOOM0242-4ch.flac - south of the ARI building. just after dawn ~5h 
 +  * 2019-05-23 - ZOOM0243-4ch.flac - meadow between church and water. morning ~7h
 +  * 2019-05-24 - ZOOM0244-4ch.flac - near the sauna. scuttling. nocturnal birds. waves. around midnight
 +  * 2019-05-24 - ZOOM0245-4ch.flac - grass near the moth catcher. ~1h (1min)
 +  * 2019-05-24 - ZOOM0246-4ch.flac - walking along path from moth catcher to ARI building ~1h (1min)
 +  * 2019-05-25 - ZOOM0247-4ch.flac - fridge tracks of "Portti pääty" ~midnight (6mins)
 +  * 2019-05-25 - ZOOM0247-4ch.flac - rain. morning activity. bg hum from fridge. recorded from inside the open window ~7h
 +
 +
 +Sony PCM-D100 (mostly with s/n100 enabled) built in mics & H2a hydrophone (on left channel only). various.
 +  * hydrophone recordings from the boat (Seili 5) during the retreat. esp. chirping ~5m depth. seals? 
 +  * 2019-05-22 - 190522_001 - meadow between church and water. deer 'barking' (9:40~11m) and birds birding ~6h
 +  * 2019-05-24 - 190524_001 & 190524_002 - fridge listening in "Portti pääty" w. characteristic noises as observed. indoors ~3h
 +  * 2019-05-24 - 190523_003 - rain. recorded from the windowsill. severe noise/clipping. pre sunrise ~4h
 +  * 2019-05-24 - 190524_004 - rain. dawn chorus recorded from the windowsill. this time with the windshield. post sunrise 4~5h
 +  * 2019-05-24 - 190524_012 - hydrophone w. moss activity. ~12h
 +
 +
 +Sony PCM-D100 (with s/n100 disabled & limiter set to 150ms) using hydrophone.
 +  * 2019-05-24 - from 190524_016 onwards
 +
 +
 +Editing notes
 +  * convert to quad flac -> ''sox *.WAV --channels 4 --combine merge ZOOM0233-4ch.flac''
 +  * hydrophone - split hydrophone recs to mono. keep 1 and discard 2
 +  * ambeo - split stereo track 1&2 of 4ch flac) 
 +  * normalize peaks to -1.0dB (do NOT normalize ch independently) > (process...) > export as level 8 24bit flac (edit tags, but try to keep filename from the recorder)
 +  * use ''metaflac'' for tag edits
 +
 +====data sets (via ARI / Katja Mäkinen)====
 +
 +  * Tick_data_2012_2018.xlsx
 +  * Zooplankton abund 1991-2014_To share.xlsx
 +  * macro butterflies.xlsx 
 +  * odas 2011 and 2012.xlsx
 +  * seili bird_data 1981-2018 vuosiyhteenvedot.xlsx
 +  * zoopl_paev 1966-1985.xls
 +  * zooplankton data 1967-2013.xlsx
 +  * weather data 2011 - 2016
 +  * Säädatat 27.8.2011 - 31.12.2015
 +  * herring data:
 +    * Fat_Data.zip
 +    * Fat_DryWt_Food_Larvae.zip
 +    * Food_Data_Adults.zip
 +    * Food_Data_Larvae.zip
 +    * Menetelmät ja datakuvaukset.docx
 +    * Trapnet_Samples.zip
 +    * Trawl_samples.zip
 +
 +
 +{{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/46966653265/in/album-72157683096135201/}}\\
  
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