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Clever monkey (shortlisting forest soundscapes for Forest Project: Ecuador)

Dominic Sedgwick — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:01 +0000

As we’ve mentioned there will be two or three forest interludes on the album creating track clusters, like the silence bisecting Robert Wyatt’s ‘Cuckooland’ but with more of an emphasis on continuity. Yesterday I met wildlife sound recordist John Paterson at his home studio - he was recording in Ecuador during December - to begin shortlisting soundscapes, […]

Our wildlife sound recordist arrives in Ecuador today…

Dominic Sedgwick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:09:46 +0000

Today, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, brilliant wildlife sound recordist John Paterson arrives in Ecuador on behalf of Ginkgo Music to begin making recordings for Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador.
There are many perfectly good recordings of individual birdsongs by ornithologists, but John belongs to a small […]

Abbey Road Studios to master Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador

Dominic Sedgwick — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:34:48 +0000

We are eternally grateful to Abbey Road Studios who have agreed to master Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador. It is an honour for us and for the project that the studio that made the Beatles’ albums and has such an incredible history will be handling the mastering for us. Onwards and upwards!

Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador to be mixed by Peter Junge

Dominic Sedgwick — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:48:23 +0000

Audio engineer Peter Junge will begin mixing the album next week. Peter was selected as the mixing engineer for the project after a number of auditioning engineers submitted mixes of David McAlmont’s song ‘Fog on the Mountain’

Vivienne Westwood lending a hand…

Paul Travers — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:28:01 +0000

Looks like Vivienne Westwood is going to help us out by dressing one of our artists for a magazine photoshoot. More later…

Cambridge University’s Darwin Festival 2009 - Human beings hard-wired to cooperate?

Dominic Sedgwick — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:25:29 +0000

In case you hadn’t noticed, this year sees both 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his momentous On The Origin of Species, and earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending many of the events at Cambridge University’s Darwin Festival 2009 as a volunteer. […]

A walk in the woods

Paul Travers — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:15:23 +0000

So, this week I’ve been mostly trying to get us to Ecuador. The plan, the dream, the vision, etc is to take our splendid, young and totally-up-for-it sound & film crew from Bournemouth University deep, deep, deep into the forests and then leave them there to be consumed by bugs and creatures and mulch. Hmm… […]

RIP, Michael Jackson

Dominic Sedgwick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:46:52 +0000

Just started humming a Michael Jackson song in the kitchen and my b/f said ‘That’s is my favourite Michael Jackson song.’ So I asked him what the song is called - Human Nature: “Why, why? Tell them that it’s human nature”. I’ve had it in my head all these years without knowing its title or that it came from Thriller. So I googled the guitar chords and had a go at playing it - it is so beautiful and sad. RIP Michael Jackson.

Darwin, the opera

Dominic Sedgwick — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:03:58 +0000

Several of us in the Ginkgo Music team will be going to Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London on the 30th July to see a new chamber opera about the relationship between Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle during its historic five year voyage of discovery. The opera is called The Weather Man […]

Today Frome. Tomorrow, the world!

Paul Travers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:05:18 +0000

Last night Ginkgo Music and Tropical Forest Project: Ecuador had their second mention on radio. Multi-talented Josie Gallo, film & TV editor, radio presenter and member of the crew helping us film the artist interviews for our promotional movie, was presenting a pre-Glastonbury warm up show on Frome FM and kindly gave us a mention. Her radio rocks! Or something.