A NEW COMMISSION! - for BBC Radio 3's 'Between the Ears'
Ghost Town - this documentary feature will focus on the phenomenon of the ghost town in the American West. To be recorded & produced by Diane Hope in collaboration with Alan Hall, Falling Tree Productions.
Coming soon: 'Arizona Soundscapes' a new web audio project for Arizona Highways magazine ... evocative audio portraits of life around the state
'City Life' - currently in the planning stages, the exhibit at Arizona State University will recreate life in the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan, Mexico using sound. A team of archeologists from ASU & Ganymede Design Group plan to recreate the experience of daily life in the ancient pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan at its zenith for museum visitors. Diane has been assisting composer and sound designer Frank Ekeberg to collect material on location in Mexico for the exhibit. Sheis currently making a podcast about the project for its web page:
http://asuma.asu.edu/Research/CityLife
Elk Song - a soundscape recorded on location in Northern Arizona and available on Touch Radio, September edition #34. Are these eerie calls the terrestrial equivalent of whale song? Listen at
Lonely Nights - BBC Radio 4, May 26th 2008
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"Skiff is a mesmerising subject at the heart of sound-recordist Diane Hope's experimental feature. It's blend of night sounds - frogs, elks, coyotes, and the clunking of heavy telescopes - melts into ambient music to make a hypnotic, sensual tapestry."
The Guardian (London), Tues 27th May 2008
"A wonderful documentary" Dominic Arkwright, R4 Pick of the Week
"Lonely Nights" - a collaboration with Alan Hall of Falling Tree Productions http://www.fallingtree.co.uk/ - a 30 min impressionistic documentary feature on the eerie nocturnal world of the professional astronomer and telescope operator, It features a typical night in the working life of long time Lowell Observatory research assistant and telescope operator Brian Skiff. Brian started his career over 30 years ago, using the 70 year old instrument used to discover Pluto. He currently works on asteroid observations for the LONEOS (Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Search) project, as well as undertaking work correcting the positions of hundreds of thousands of stars. As well as hearing from Brian, his boss Lowell Astronomer Ted Bowle and former telescope operator, turned instrument specialist Diane Harmer (National Opitcal Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona), this programme features a rich tapestry of Arizona's night time wildlife, sounds from the telescope dome and control room and the music of Julien Loureau, Radiohead, Jane Ira Bloom and Steve Roach.
March 2008 - An Intensive Workshop Training with Steve Roach
Diane recently significantly upgraded her sound editing and sound design capabilities on a weeklong stay at Epona Ranch/The Timeroom with with international recording artist, musician, composer and ambient soundscape expert Steve Roach http://www.steveroach.com/. She now has an expanded range of hardware, editing software to create a whole new range of soundscapes and audio effects.
Diane with Steve Roach in 'The Timeroom ' south of Tucson, Arizona
"Into the Night" sound composition extract
Currently playing: an extract from the ambient sound composition 'Into the Night' made with musician Steve Roach using Diane's recordings of night time wildlife and large research telescopes in Arizona. Steve will be using more of Diane's telescopes recordings in 'Deep Sky Dreaming' his only live performance this year on Oct 26th http://www.culturalpartners.org/steveroach.htm
Recent projects:
Hummingbirds for the Regent's Park Zoo - Diane recently supplied sounds of Hummingbirds wings, along with background tropical rainforest and bird ambience for a web game being put together for the website of the Zoological Society of London in conjunction with their new Hummingbird exhibit
Signature Sounds of the Sonoran Desert ... an audio project for the Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
Photo by Eyal Shochat http://picasaweb.google.com/eyal.shochat
Audio archive project for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute http://www.stri.org/ .
Location recordings of key species and habitats from STRI's main research stations around Panama, including howler monkeys, an audio tour of the rainforest canopy (Barro Colorado) and hydrophone recordings from the seashore on the Carribean coast (Galeta Marine Station) are now available on the STRI website - follow this link & check 'audio' when you do your search:
http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/dfm/search.php
