is a collaboration between the field recording engineer Fanis Maragkos and Georgia Nicolaou.
The duo seeks to document interesting (natural) soundscapes through exploring and recording different ecosystems.
Rematia: Dawn Chorus
Lockdown dawns. An early morning walk through the historic streamlet, ‘Rematia’, in the heart of Chalandri, Athens. We are absorbing the sounds that this remaining piece of nature has to offer. A tiny frame of light under the endless cement and roaring traffic of a hustling city. Even if it has been quieter than ever during these lockdown mornings, the feeling of living within a concrete city has been more prominent than ever. There is a continuous need to walk outside, feel, hear, smell and then, take everything back home till that next walk. This place has been our little paradise in quarantine.
People that live in cities have been doomed to stay within walls during this pandemic, and on the contrary, people that live closer to nature have been blessed. Rematia is one of the few remnants of the rich aquatic past of Attica with significant biodiversity and, as such, it must be registered and exposed in order to be preserved.
Could this reality act as an alarm, in order to transform our cities towards a more sustainable residence where nature and man could co-exist?
Field Recording & Editing: Fanis Maragkos & Georgia Nicolaou
Artwork: Michalis Siopachas
Ψαράδες [Psarádes]
At the end of the end, where the road stops and the view of the lake Prespa, which borders three nations, brings memories of exile, there is this village; Psarádes.
Isolation, cold winters and stunning landscapes accompanied by a rich ecosystem ranging from autochthon cows to rare birds and distinguished fish.
And the people, a warm hug and spicy bean stew with tsipouro for the cold nights of winter, always welcoming the few people that visit their village.
Οθωνοί [Othoní]
At a perennial grove, inside a secluded estate in the middle of the island Othoni, north of Corfu, Greece.
Biological and geophysical sounds predominate. Sparsely, the voice of the scops owl.
The sea is heard from far away while its waves grow stronger as time passes. The conditions are ideal. Low humidity and high temperature.
Fanis Maragkos
Fanis Maragkos (1981) is a field recording engineer specialized in capturing natural soundscapes. He has been working as a Laboratory Associate at the Ionian University, Greece, teaching modules (lectures and labs) on Live Sound, Recording Techniques, Post-production and Mastering, since 2008.
He has participated as a research associate in the research program “Opticoacoustic Ecology” (7/2011-12/2013). The project involved the recording of certain aspects of selected ecosystems on the Ionian Islands. Besides, he has accomplished a vast number of recordings of landscapes throughout Greece and he is currently a researcher in the program Erasmus+: “The Soundscape We Live In”. Fanis is currently at the last stage of his PhD research on field recording and prototype recording systems.
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcNYmnAuLg740-pOhKZreOg/videos
Contact: fanismaragkos@yahoo.gr