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Researching on the term „one minute“ I found an excerpt from the „World Economic Forum“, in which then President of Israel Schimon Peres just finished his talk and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister at that time) asked for „One Minute“ to reply on that. What you hear in the sound-file, is Erdogan’s sampled voice and the translator.

Ogijima in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. A tiny island with about 150 people, 200 cats and 300 wild boars. Ten years ago: not one single boar. Ogijima is not close to its neighbours. Only a very skilled ocean swimmer would even think of crossing the distance between the islands. But they did. The boars. They came swimming.

Inside _ George Kentros by halffloor

One minute from Mare Balticum (2015). An artistic exploration of the underwater soundscape of the Baltic Sea in the Anthropocene era.

”A sine wave is the purest form of sound, its waveform is characterized by two perfect semicircles. It is possible to recreate any sound using the correct number of sine waves. You'll just have to find the right number of frequencies and the right volume ratio between them. Sound waves spread as microscopic tremor in all matter. Everything tremble. Sometimes the sound hits an eardrum, travels trou...

Low bit-rate sampled dog pants

Materialet för detta enminutsverk, skapat för Halffloor 2019, består av två kontrasterande fältinspelningar. Den första kommer från den postapokalyptiska gallerian Carlos III i Havanna, Kuba. När man befinner sig på lägsta planet är man som i en gryta – likheten med ett Dantes inferno är slående – och blickar upp mot våningsplanen som stiger i cirklar. Här installerades en gång moderna rulltrappor...

60 Sekunder _ Qarin Wikström by halffloor

Artificial sun in science and in daily life.  Interview with 80 years old, sauna and solarium expert, Herr Päffgen. Music extracts by Esther Quade feat. Michael Quade.

SC 190514 171635 _ Mattias Petersson by halffloor

This is Ines and Madonna, the only thing they have in common is that I like them, as voices and humans. I also happened to meet them the same day. I met Ines on a birthday party, we ended up talking about the german word Spießig. Translations say that Spießig/ Spießigkeit means something like bourgeois / stuffiness, but Ines had a lot more to say about it; we made an appointment to meet again the...

tweet0320 _ Fredrik Olofsson by halffloor

JeVoudraisDemanderQuelqueChose _ Ida Lundén by halffloor

60 Seconds Of Searching _ Marja-leena Sillanpää by halffloor

The voices were sampled from a conversation with local people in FUKUSHIMA.

Just A Minute _ Vinyl Terror & Horror by halffloor