Hellsö by Charles Harding released via Patient Records

This performance video was recorded live on Kökar, Åland, Finland by members of Trajectories Collective while embarking on the Åland Archipelago Guest Artist Residence program hosted by Kökar Kultur.

I'm feeling so lucky to have been able to perform at Soundwich XV on Nov. 3, 2022, presented by Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec and Akousma! The performance consisted of a 16-channel live diffusion of 2 pieces from my recently released soundscape album Rain Beast!

Rain Beast is a collage of field recordings collected in New Brunswick and Montréal between 2018 and 2021. As part of a greater meditation on connecting technological mediums in artistic practice to notions of Anthropocene, this collection reflects upon the dissonances of nature and industry in the south of NB and some of the prominent soundmarks that relate to this theme.

This workshop covered methods for collecting and composing with sounds found in the world. Developing pieces of music with found sound is fun, inspiring, and can lead to unique results that define the character of your work. This workshop was designed to demonstrate a wide range of tools that can be used to record and process found sounds as well as to highlight music that has been created with these techniques.