Zeeland

Zeeland: field recordings / ambient.
Sounds for an upcoming project by Gerco de Ruijter.

Between Sweet and Salt / #2 Plompe Toren from Gerco de Ruijter on Vimeo.

Sound Years

Sound Years (limited edition 33 rpm transparent 175 gr heavy weight vinyl)



Side A
(this side has the tracks jointed, making it one uninterrupted mix):

A1. Close To The Moon (previously unreleased / 2016)
A2. Earth Visitor (from Earth Visitor / 2016)
A3. E.T. (from Traces / 2007)
A4. Gorlice (from Live in Gorlice / 2014)
A5. 47 Voice Loops (from 47 Voice Loops / 2013)


Side B
(this side has the tracks jointed, making it one uninterrupted mix):

B1. Stone Bridge (from Hilarious Expedition / 2005)
B2. Niki Jumpei (from Gardening / 2012)
B3. TAPE (mix 3) (from Bouwwerk / 2010)
B4. Shortwave (from Hilarious Expedition / 2005)
B5. Radio Spelonk (from Music for viola and electronics II / 2015) with Oene van Geel
B6. Vuka Vuka! intro (from Songs from Vuka Vuka! / 2005)
B7. The Turtle Came Back (from Gardening / 2012)
B8. Yarra (from Travelog / 2013) with Machinefabriek






Released February 2, 2017

All tracks composed by Michel Banabila except:
'Radio Spelonk' by Banabila & Van Geel.
'Yarra' by Banabila & Zuydervelt.



Mastering: Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio.

Photography: Gerco de Ruijter.
Layout: Rutger Zuydervelt.



Discogs.

UPC 753907987683.
Pressing: MPO France.
Manufactured by Mobineko.

2016 ℗ Tapu Records / 020TR

Air Base (Gerco de Ruijter)

Air Base (Gerco de Ruijter) from Michel Banabila on Vimeo.

Video: Gerco de Ruijter / Sound: Michel Banabila

track = remix of: 'The Lost Drones Tape No. #2' (from: Early Works - Bureau B)

Gerco de Ruijter

I was contacted by photographer Gerco de Ruijter a few years ago. When he showed me his work I was immediately impressed. He often uses a kite with a camera attached to make photos (kite photography). All beautiful art. This is a nice documentary about how he works:

Gerco De Ruijter from Fotofestival Knokke-Heist on Vimeo.

We became good friends. To my surprise it turned out he has known my music for quite a while.. and he proposed to make an album cover. That was the start of a long collaboration that is still going on. These are some of the covers he made for my albums:


Float



12 inch vinyl EP

Banabila & Mens



Four years ago he asked me to do the sound design for his short film 'Crops'. The response was really amazing ... the film was shown at many film festivals all over the world and we had an installation for 3 months in the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington where I also did a solo performance (electronics / ambient) and a small Q&A:

Crops (Gerco de Ruijter) from Michel Banabila on Vimeo.

CROPS is a stopmotion film on centre pivot irrigation in the USA. Long water-sprinkler arms rotate around a central pivot, irrigating circular fields of verdant crops in desert or semiarid environments. Often a well, located at the centre of the circle, pumps water up from vast aquifers in the rock formations below, or Rio Grande water is canalized and redirected into the deserts feeding the well. Once the Rio Grande reaches Mexico, it's riverbed has dried. This trailer was made using 1000 circles cropped in Google Earth. It is the starting point for a larger project to be released this year. Score by Michel Banabila. 2012 © Gerco de Ruijter.
Michel Banabila, Friday Gallery Talk - Hirshhorn auditorium, 2013.

Earlier this year we did a new video collabs, Grid Corrections:

Grid Corrections (a one minute) from Gerco de Ruijter on Vimeo.

The video was featured on the great Bldgblog

Our most recent collaboration was on Ringdijk, a beautiful video installation for Panorama Mesdag
Sound for Ringdijk:


Gerco was also doing live projections during my concert with Oene van Geel in The Hague:

Banabila & Van Geel live at Rewire 2016 (snippets) from Michel Banabila on Vimeo.

And we performed live together during the Space Expo 2016 commissioned by Brand Urban Agency

Space Expo 2016 from Michel Banabila on Vimeo.

european-space-solutions.eu/space-expo
Samples taken from:

GOOGLE EARTH
google.com/earth
NASA
soundcloud.com/nasa



Above: cover for Sound Years (2017)

below: Ringdijk / Dike Ring, sound for a continuous loop installation:

RINGDIJK / DIKE-RING (2016) from Gerco de Ruijter on Vimeo.

AMBIENTBLOG - Banabila Exclusive: Dissolve (Free Download)

Grid Corrections (a one minute) by Gerco de Ruijter

I made a sound piece for Grid Corrections, a stop motion video on vimeo (now 26.4 K plays) by the wonderful photographer Gerco de Ruijter

Grid Corrections (a one minute) from Gerco de Ruijter on Vimeo.

This film was made mining the Thomas Jefferson's Grid in Google Earth.
By superimposing a rectangular grid on the earth surface, a grid built from exact square miles, the spherical deviations have to be fixed. After all, the grid has only two dimensions.
The north-south bounderies in the grid are on the lines of longitude, which converge to the north. The roads that follow these bounderies must dogleg every twenty-four miles to counter the diminishing distances: Grid Corrections

Read more on Grid Corrections at the wonderful BLDGBLOG

Distribution: LIMA

Made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam.