Reveil#10: 24+1 hour broadcast

5AM London time (UTC+1) on Saturday 6 MAY to 6AM on Sunday 7 MAY 2023
organized by Soundtent
REVEIL travels West on live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, making a loop over one earth day.

Together with composer and sound designer Daniel Steiner I’ll be joining the stream. We’ll be broadcasting from the Paleolithic caves on the southern slope of Homberg mountain in Switzerland. These overhanging rocks were among the first known homes of the extinct Neanderthal species in this area. Tools made of stone, bones of their prey and coals from their camp fires were found here.

During Reveil#10 we will feed you the early forest sounds that echo into one of these caves, mixed with the simmering of breakfast over our own camp fire.

LISTEN
Follow the expanded radio event from 05:00 UTC+1 on Saturday 6 MAY to 06:00 on Sunday 7 MAY at REVEIL. Listen to our stream here.

Reveil is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 6 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.

Streams come from a variety of locations, at a time of day when human sounds are relatively low, even in dense urban areas. This tends to open the sound field to a more diverse ecology than usual. The Reveil broadcast makes room by largely avoiding speech and music, gravitating to places where human and non human communities meet and soundworlds overlap.

Each stream brings something different to the loop.

REVEIL#10 goes back to its starting point, giving attention to live sounds of places as first light reaches them.