Noumenon by H.Flora

"Noumenon" is a imaginary half-synthetic sound tale about a state of an ecosystem where the human impact has been gone for a longer time and an adaption to new enviromental circumstances
has taken place. It is aswell based on imagination streams of how the sound of an ecosystem in absence of human, physically interaction
would shift into unimaginable noumenal territories, a unmanned world of things.
Based on original and reshaped field-recordings captured in Thailand in April 2025, the compositions developed and re-developed over time into naturel-concrète,
electronically-mangled collages under often randomly arranged experiments with modular system and OP-1 Sampler.

"That's what's so fascinating about using this and that motley sound generating machines,
merging them with bio-acoustically recordings with which you can twist yourself into a wide variety of sound positions,
work your way into it and transport yourself into that mimicry world of natural sound interaction
that humans and animals have developed over millennia,
or that simply arises through laws and form in the physical world.
Simulating and mapping these sounds, merging them into another, shapeshifting them with synthetic use of sounds is a growing fascination for me,
rearranging and exploring random moments that are captured and further modulated until
I can decide that the collages are coherent, somehow (half-)finished to leave them free as compositions based on experiments."

The original field recordings used here has been released seperately by sirr.ecords from portugal and are coupled to this album:
https://sirr-ecords.bandcamp.com/album/anthropause-bioacoustic-recordings-from-thailand

"There's phonographers who just let the beauty of natural sounds speak for themselves, and there's electroacoustic composers who use field recordings as sources for their compositions. The ones run the risk of mistaking a recording for the real thing and ending up with audio that has no dramatic structure and being rather boring compared to real-life immersion in an actual soundscape. The others run the risk of simply exploiting natural sounds as raw material, whilst conceptually greenwashing their rather resource-intensive art. And then there's H.Flora, whose keen ear edits their untreated field recordings in such a way that they're not boring at all, because they understand that, as little editing there may be, as recordings they are not nature, but human artifacts. And who compose their electroacoustic pieces in such a way as to do justice to the source sounds that are allowed to shine thorugh, whilst creating an experimental musical set-up that imitates nature in its mode of operation, in its processes (to paraphrase John Cage), instead of calcifying the sonic flux of nature into a sonic object."

(Gerald Fiebig, sound artist and theorist)

micro-(tape)label, hand-made series: sacred tone and sonic experimentation format from abroad and beyond.
est. 2022

reach out if you like: felix.timeflies@web.de
Insta: @uli.schwitters

there is also some copies available at Tobira Records, Osaka.

musically active under the moniker
H. Flora, J. R. Mango & as a part of Radial Taste Wokout & Ensambal Oelek.