Preternatural
Rich Bitting
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Soundtrack by Rich Bitting for the Exhibition of Paintings by Michael Scott
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Air 12:530:00/12:53
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Fire 10:250:00/10:25
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Water 10:400:00/10:40
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Earth 14:340:00/14:34
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Water Reprise 11:380:00/11:38
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Earth Reprise 12:370:00/12:37
A Thousand Words Unspoken
Rich Bitting
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"In the secrecy of a moonlit night the katydids are telling stories of your childhood."
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Spectral Shadows 5:550:00/5:55
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Night Music 11:120:00/11:12
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Hidden in the Flames 7:280:00/7:28
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Memory Blurs 8:590:00/8:59
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The Earth Dreams in Sound
Rich Bitting
Quantum physics suggests that reality is in the eye of the beholder, perhaps then reality is a dream we all inhabit? The Earth Dreams in Sound is a collection of compositions composed of fragments, dreams, field recordings, and ideas that are meaningful to me. Among these collected verberations maybe you’ll find some moments that hold meaning for
Quantum physics suggests that reality is in the eye of the beholder, perhaps then reality is a dream we all inhabit? The Earth Dreams in Sound is a collection of compositions composed of fragments, dreams, field recordings, and ideas that are meaningful to me. Among these collected verberations maybe you’ll find some moments that hold meaning for you as well.
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A Slower Afternoon 6:220:00/6:22
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Beneath Gasparilla Sound 13:200:00/13:20
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Frogs 5:090:00/5:09
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Magnetic Winds 8:000:00/8:00
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Wolf Run at Minnich's Hit
Rich Bitting
This is a field recording of the headwaters of Wolf Run at Minnich's Hit. Located in the Haldeman Tract of the Weiser State Forest in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This was recorded on the afternoon of August 1, 2021.
Other Musics
Rich Bitting
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"Other Musics" is a collection of six new audio works exploring anthrophony and its pervasiveness in our lives. Bits and pieces of soundscapes, dreams, conversations, thoughts, and readings have made their way into this work looking for meaning.
NB This music is best experienced at a moderate level over good speakers or with good headphones.
"Other Musics" is a collection of six new audio works exploring anthrophony and its pervasiveness in our lives. Bits and pieces of soundscapes, dreams, conversations, thoughts, and readings have made their way into this work looking for meaning.
NB This music is best experienced at a moderate level over good speakers or with good headphones.
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Hidden Frequencies 9:100:00/9:10
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Another Wash Day Miracle 11:210:00/11:21
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Autumn
Rich Bitting
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As the pandemic ravages our lives, we find ourselves valuing simple pleasures. The ambient compositions in this album are a personal reflection of this time.
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Late September 6:000:00/6:00
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Amid Solitude
Rich Bitting
“There is… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote in his 1972 taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. “But where does the modern soul go to pasture on awareness and commune with the cosmos in a civilization increasingly savaged by
“There is… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote in his 1972 taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence. “But where does the modern soul go to pasture on awareness and commune with the cosmos in a civilization increasingly savaged by noise?”
Open your ears and allow yourself to step into this sound world. Close your eyes and be enveloped by the sound.
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Veni Creator 9:280:00/9:28
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A pale cold glow of the sun tints the early morning landscape with barely visible light. The newly uncovered architecture of trees etches the snowy hillside. It’s as if for a moment, sound and light are fused.
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In Midwinter Light 13:120:00/13:12
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A pale cold glow of the sun tints the early morning landscape with barely visible light. The newly uncovered architecture of trees, etches the snowy hillside. It’s as if for a moment, sound and light are fused.
The connections between sound, emotion, and memory are very strong. This is a collection of soundscape compositions that conjures these pale wisps of memory.
The connections between sound, emotion, and memory are very strong. The sibilant hiss of wind in the trees or a warbling bird song can trigger our cellular memory of a specific time and
The connections between sound, emotion, and memory are very strong. This is a collection of soundscape compositions that conjures these pale wisps of memory.
The connections between sound, emotion, and memory are very strong. The sibilant hiss of wind in the trees or a warbling bird song can trigger our cellular memory of a specific time and place." from an august evening" is a collection of soundscape compositions that conjures these pale wisps of memory.
"From an August Evening" is composed using a field recording of Fernald Nature Preserve during a warm August evening. The insect choruses create an ambient accompaniment for imagined spirit voices.
"What the Bees Know" was written to accompany my visual art contribution to the group exhibition “Mind Gardens” at Caza/Sikes Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. This composition is based on field recordings of beehives and explores the massed sounds of individual bees.
"A Barn in Halifax" is a soundscape composition comprised of a field recording of my family’s barn in Halifax, Pennsylvania. The creaks and groans of the structure provide a polyphony of percussive sounds to the background ambiance.
"One Afternoon in Randall Hollow" is based on the soundscape of Randall Hollow in Tioga State Forest in Pennsylvania. It is perhaps, one of the quietest locations in the Pennsylvania Wilds. This is a meditation on my memory of that special place.
*Thanks to Dale Myers, Scott Bruno, and Rob McCullough for their valuable assistance.
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From an August Evening 19:190:00/19:19
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What the Bees Know 9:020:00/9:02
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A Barn in Halifax 8:160:00/8:16
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