Ether Ground - أرض الأثير الحلقة الأولى | Dirar Kalash

Dirar Kalash presents "Ether Ground" -- a series of four episodes of soundscape compositions commissioned by Radio Atheer. The compositions were done using around 28 hours of field recordings from different places and times across Palestine, and through utilising different soundscape techniques like sound processing, transformation, over-layering and other editing techniques. The original sounds are put in a new context that emphasises the complexity of the sonic environment in Palestine, in all of its forms: The natural, urban, rural, political, and beyond.

The first episode is done entirely from over 8 hours of recordings made at the sea in Haifa and Akka, which are then processed and edited into a one-hour soundscape composition, raising questions on how we perceive time through sound. The sound of sea waves is almost static, but we know the sea is in constant motion. A deeper listening to those sounds reveals many layers that move at contrasting speeds between slow and fast. This is reflected in the soundscape composition where the sounds of the sea are almost unrecognisable, while they are transformed into faster or slower sounds.