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john grzinich

sound + site + situational research
  • About
    • Interviews
  • Artistic Work
    • Workshops
    • Web Releases
    • CD/DVD Releases
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    • Moving Image
    • Performances
    • Events / Exhibitions
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    • aeolian sounds
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Dawn chorus recordings and noted from the Reveil broadcast project

Dawn chorus and the Reveil broadcast

Report from the short-term residency and workshop for the Sounds of our Cities project.

Sounds of our Cities – Roeselare, BE

geofractions

Geofractions, a sonic survey of the post-natural landscapes and industrial mining zones of Ida-Virumaa in Estonia

Geofractions

metamodulation

Metamodulation, a new release available on bandcamp

Metamodulation

Program for NTS radio, village of sonic enigmas, archived sounds and music from MoKS

Radio program: Village of Sonic Enigmas

Report from participating in the 2020 OORtreders festival in Belgium where I built wind harps and conducted a 5 day workshop.

OORtreders Festival, Site+Specifics workshop and Wind Harp installation

Aeolian Wind Harps

Powerless Flight / Jõuetu lend is in some ways, a response to the global pandemic events of spring 2020, where many instances of a “return to nature” were witnessed, from sightings of dolphins near Tallinn to great ‘waves of silence’ that were registered due to dramatic drops in airline traffic […]

“Powerless Flight” aeolian wind harp installation

by john grzinich

Covid Spring (Cognitive Resonance) is a collection of field recording mixes from rural environment where I live.

Covid Spring (Cognitive Resonance)

Paljakka old growth forest

Notes on experiencing the forests of central Finland in a residency at Mustarinda.

Silence and forest sentience in Mustarinda

HRSI is a collection of unprocessed field recordings, a phonographic travelogue of sorts from Croatia and Slovenia made in June 2019.

HRSI · a sonic travelogue

Resonant Geometry is a performative exploration in redefining geometric space through resonant feedback. The framework of the project is based on a system of tensioned lengths of instrument wires.

Resonant Geometry

Bandcamp release. A collection of extended recordings of open pasture fences.

V E C T O R S

john grzinich water voices

Water Voices sound installation produced during the 2017 Tsukuba International Artist in Residence

Water Voices – Tsukuba international artist residency

My contribution a to the North American Phonographic Mornings series

Twilight on the Alberta Plains

Locus Sensum is an ongoing series based on short 1-2 minute portraits of places through single take video images and on location sound recordings.

Locus Sensum : location sound vignettes

bothnia ice

Reflections on a January-February 2017 residency at Platform in Vaasa Finland where I investigated and observed the relations between ice and culture.

Bothnia ice flows : Platform residency

kom-pohst is a three part radio work by Eamon Sprod, Simon Whetham and myself commissioned by ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit for Soundproof.

kom-pohst : by Eamon Sprod, John Grzinich, Simon Whetham

Sound and image essay for the Portuguese magazine 'Wrong Wrong'

totems of linearity

aeolian wind harp

Documentation from an environmental sound installation of an array of aeolian wind harps

aeolian wind harp installation

photo by Jukka Rajala-Granstubb

Workshop held from October 27th - 30th, 2016 labeled a 'Sound Field Lab' which was organized and hosted by Malakta Art Factory, in Malax Finland.

Malakta sound field lab

Quick review of the Tascam DR-100MKIII portable digital recorder with original audio recording samples.

Tascam DR-100MKIII quick review

A new release available from Cronica. Extended recordings of the large resonant water tower.

Prevailing Wind, Tangled Under : web release

photo by john grzinich

A short interview with me by Aleksandra Jach of the Urban Ecology project of Lodz has been posted on The Anthropocene Index.

interview: listening as a means to reconnect with the environment

Seyðisfjörður

In early April 2016 I had the good fortune to visit to Iceland at the invitation of Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music. The visit was intended to be a quick orientation and research trip to eastern Iceland and yet it turned out to be much more.

Skálar visit, Seyðisfjörður Iceland

'transduction twentyfifteen', a short film featuring sound recordings by: John Grzinich, Simon Whetham, Eamon Sprod, Jim Haynes, Rostislav Rekuta, Dawn Scarfe and Yiorgis Sakellariou.

transduction twentyfifteen : short film

A compilation CD featuring works by many of the artists who participated in the 2014 Soundplay festival

Soundplay Festival 2014, compilation CD

Report from a field recording workshop made at the Warsaw Center for Contemporary Art

sound observations: critical listening and reflection on field recording

photo by simon whetham

John Grzinich interviewed by Miguel Isaza for the Sonic Field website.

Interview on Sonic Field

Curonia

Curonia is a film that focuses on sound and listening to the landscape around Nida on the Lithuanian coast

Curonia : film : 2015

interview with John Grzinich conducted by Leandro Pisano for the article "The Third Soundscape".

the third soundscape: interview

Videos and field recording made at an abandoned water tower in Estonia

portrait of a sounding object

Report of a sound workshop given in Bergen Norway by John Grzinich

Place and Displacement : site-specific responses through sound

Artist project residency for the Technical Unconscious project in Porto Portugal

audiblehabitus : cooperativa

'Listening in Context' film and project made during the Sound Development City artist expedition in 2014

Listening in Context

Report from the 'Sounding Gdansk' workshop held during the Soundplay festival in Gdansk Poland, June 2014

Sounding Gdansk : exploring urban locations and interventions

photo by evelyn grzinich

Interview with Estonian curator and art critic Indrek Grigor for the online pan-baltic art journal Echo Gone Wrong

thoughts on the notion of “sound art”

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