first light - REVIEL 2020 by David Blink published on 2020-05-02T19:13:45Z first light - recorded as a part of the REVIEL 2020 Event for 'International Dawn Chorus Day': streams.soundtent.org/2020/streams/utc-8_mt-shasta Reveil is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the planet. Starting on the morning of Saturday 2 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light. In 2020 Reveil featurea new streams from places where humans and non humans meet, in soundscapes often radically altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of these these streams come from from homes and gardens as people make connections between the the domestic spaces where they find themselves. Themes of connection and collective practices addressing changes in public space inform the program of extended radio projects that accompanies the Reveil broadacast. Supported by Arts Council England originally as a series of site specific commissions, these have become virtual projects that respond directly or oblquely to the current situation. They help to recollect kinds of sociability that have been lost and point to others on the way. This is imagined sonically as an acoustic commons in the making. David Blink - Pantheon Steel Halo: Onoleo & singing bowls Tristan Behm - Guitar & Singing Bowls Sisson Meadow Wildlife - Soundscape Rob Mackay - Flute (recorded in real-time from Leeds, UK) Recorded live and streamed on 5/2/2020 in Sisson Meadow, Mt Shasta, CA https://followingtheflightofthemonarchs.com Genre Ambient