18/11/2015
Hosting Baltic TRAIL electronic music gathering
It seems that the gathering has reached the midpoint - so soon! Anyway, as Sunday was rainy as hell in the heavenly town of Neringa, the field recordings were postponed. The tribe wasted no time as they visited a Skype lecture by John Grzinich, a mixed media artist who did a field recording project in Nida some time ago. For two months straight he would go outside ant record the nature, use some of its elements he had found to create some temporary interventions (as it is a National Park) and generally capture the 'intriguing', as he put it, vibe of the Curonian Spit. He always worked alone and used a few different mics, together with a video camera. All of the material was finally put to a 40-minute film that we all watched before the lecture. The movie, called Curonia, reminded some of us of a beautiful vintage postcard that changes its picture as you move it - and also plays music. The sound of nature, that is.
Rain rushed all of the Baltic Trail participants back into the studios, and it was quite a productive Sunday, to tell you the truth. Tracks are taking their shapes and teams are bonding big time. Nobody stayed up too late, though, as the alarm rang on 7AM on Monday morning.
The shy November sun was greeted with the mics on - the participants divided into small groups and went off in search of what the Curonian Spit sounds for each of them, both natural and urban.
As everyone’s back into the studios now, let’s wait and see what comes out of this early morning walk. For now, we got some pictures. And there are more on Instagram - just follow and .
