Flumen by Patrick Quinn

Flumen, the Latin word for river.

Flumen consists of field recordings involving water. One of the walls is a processed field recording of a river near the French-Spanish border called Le Garbet and the other wall is a processed field recording of the Cascade d'Ars, a looming waterfall located close to the village of Aulus-les-Bains.

The two other recordings featured here are from a field recording trip in May 2024, where I recorded periodical cicadas throughout the state of Illinois. Some of the cicadas fell into the streams, lakes, and rivers at a number of my recording locations due to the crowdedness of the trees, their preferred habitat. The sound you hear in these recordings is the cicadas, desperate to get back on land, swimming around and up to my hydrophone and even climbing up the microphone cable—some of them also climbed onto my shoulders before drifting back into the trees.

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