Ultrasonic by Field Works

Stuart Hyatt returns with another sonic wonder in the Field Works series, bringing the listener into truly uncharted acoustic territory. Ultrasonic is perhaps the ﬁrst-ever album to use the echolocations of bats as compositional source material. For this special album, Hyatt has assembled an extraordinary group of contributors: Eluvium, Christina Vantzou, Sarah Davachi, Ben Lukas Boysen, Machinefabriek, Mary Lattimore, Felicia Atkinson, Noveller, Chihei Hatakeyama, John Also Bennett, Kelly Moran, Taylor Deupree, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Julien Marchal, and Player Piano. Ultrasonic is part of a broader storytelling project about the federally endangered Indiana bat. Generously funded by the IUPUI Arts & Humanities Institute and the National Geographic Society, each album contains an ofﬁcial printed booklet of The Endangered Species Act of 1973.

As part of his ongoing Field Works project, multidisciplinary artist Stuart Hyatt makes field recordings of specific places and subjects, then collaborates with several musicians in order to make music out of the audio, with the goal of telling evocative stories and raising awareness about these subjects.

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Behind this rather understated cover, a virtual who's who of contemporary electronic music has come together to produce a brilliant new entr...

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Stuart Hyatt's Field Works series continues with Ultrasonic, a field-recording inspired album featuring Mary Lattimore, Kelly Moran and more