Benoit Pioulard - Rionnach Maoim by Stationary Travels published on 2019-06-24T10:08:47Z "Rionnach Maoim" - shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day (Gaelic) Music by Benoit Pioulard Artwork by Gregory Euclide Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary. The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound. More info: https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/ Genre Ambient Comment by Andy Adore Benoit's sound, always reassuringly familiar but always so beautifully textured and emotionally provoking 2022-01-07T18:45:21Z Comment by Harlan stunning 🌿🌟 2021-12-11T14:00:36Z Comment by sara soleimani dark nice 2021-12-07T03:26:23Z Comment by zero_circle wonderful soundscape! 😁 2021-10-24T11:52:20Z Comment by Sem3ion pads are huge! good job 2021-07-20T21:43:46Z Comment by 4chris. 💎💎💎💎 2020-08-06T11:28:20Z Comment by Nakul Heroor Fills the heart with librating feeling of open spaces 2020-04-29T11:46:07Z Comment by Logic Moon Very good stuff 2019-12-26T16:30:20Z Comment by User 643902383 This is beautiful. 2019-09-01T13:51:07Z Comment by Ambientologist such a distinctive style 2019-07-01T12:15:30Z