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At the time, the generally foggy Saint John’s harbour had both a cannon and a bell-tower to warn incoming ships of danger during periods of low visibility. He realized that this principle could be applied to the problem of fog signals. The story goes that while walking home one day in 1835, Foulis heard his daughter playing piano, and noticed that he could only hear the very low notes through the fog.

He eventually settled down in New Brunswick in 1822, where he worked as a civil engineer and land surveyor. Robert Foulis was a Canadian inventor, civil engineer, and artist, who emigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1818.

The story of the foghorn is inextricably linked to the story of its inventor. Photo Credit: Nash Point Lighthouse foghorn, Archangel12, CC image via flickr. What is perhaps even lesser known than the foghorn itself, is that the first automated steam-powered foghorn was invented right here in Canada, by civil engineer Robert Foulis. The foghorn is a signal which uses sound to warn vehicles, usually ships, of navigational hazards such as rocks, shoals, and other ships, in foggy conditions. Perhaps some of us have even heard this sound while out at sea, without knowing exactly where it was coming from.

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It seems that Félix Blume is playing with our perception, from bliss to horror. Horns are still heard, but they’re a different kind of horns. The warmth disappears to become cold ambiance, beautifully textured and enigmatic sounds take over. If those eighteen minutes sound tremendously real, the three tracks on the other side feel like a horror film. It’s one of the many crafts of Félix Blume, the more you live with his music, the more you focus outside the plot.

#Long horn fog horn full#

Hidden melodies are revealed when you listen to this with your full attention, and the more you do it, the horns become less present, vivid. The horns are the metal section of an orchestra, while the rest works like the strings. The surrounding sounds are the heartbeat of this track. The horns dominate but sounds of the surroundings create a perfect balance to the drone hysteria. In the eighteen minutes of the first side, Félix Blume explores the concept of a concert played by those horns. Jokes aside, there’s something magical about these horns. In a way, B side sounds like the perfect soundtrack for the recent remake of “Suspiria”. The A side reveals a long track recorded during a fog horn concert whilst side B features three 'remixes' of the same recordings, paying respect to what Ingram Marshall did in “Fog Tropes” in three different 'movements'. But we also knew that recordings of funerals could be tricky, and Félix Blume pulled a gem out of last year’s “Death In Haiti - Funeral Brass Band & Sounds Of Port Au Prince (CREP51)”.Īnd he has done it again. Yes, boat horns are annoying, sometimes disturbing and even absurdly disrupting if you live in a port city or one that is blessed with the arrival of cruises. “Fog Horns” captures the sounds of boat horns in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, the port city that serves some of the most important ferry routes in Greece nowadays. ‘French sound artist Félix Blume keeps pushing the boundaries of field recordings for our enjoyment.