Tassili N'ajjer — a few things

_19/02/22;		_{car ride to the base of the plateau}
_20/02/22;		_{plateau ascent}
_20/02/22;		_{plateau ascent 2}
_20/02/22;		_{hollow rock at the top of the climb}
_21/02/22;		_{cave drawings at Tamaghit: donkey eating}
_21/02/22;		_{cave drawings at Tamaghit:II}
_22/02/22;		_{Tinibuteka camp}
_22/02/22;		_{Tamaghit to Tinibuteka route}
_23/02/22;		_{morning at Tinibuteka camp}¹
_23/02/22;		_{Tinibuteka to Tintazarif route}
_23/02/22;		_{Tinibuteka to Tintazarif route continued}
_23/02/22;		_{wind tunnels at Tintazrif piazza}
_23/02/22;		_generator²_{at Tinibuteka}
_23/02/22;		_{generator at Tinibuteka I}
_23/02/22;		_{generator at Tinibuteka II}
_23/02/22;		_{generator at Tinibuteka III}
_23/02/22;		_{generator at Tinibuteka IV}
_25/02/22;		_{the guelta}³_{at Sefar I}⁴
_25/02/22;		_{the guelta at Sefar}⁵
_26/02/22;		_{the guelta at Sefar 2nd day}⁶
_26/02/22;		_{bushes a short climb from the guelta}⁷
_27/02/22;		_{washing the stone at the guelta, Sefar}
_03/03/22;		_{overnight at Djardanet, Djanet}⁸

_{NB. Without intervention, it was near impossible to find sound where there was no trace of water. Three of the ‘classical’ elements presented potential for sound at Tassili N’ajjer: water, wind/air (things that moved) and fire. The missing two being earth and void.
Al-koni talks about the desert being ‘not a real place, a transcendental place, a shadow. A place has preconditions; the most important being the presence of water’.}

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_{1 Wood fire burning, heating water/preparing tea/breakfast

2 Contact microphone recordings taken in the sand underneath the generator set up daily at the base camps

3 A wetland, typical of desert regions, formed when underground water in lowland depressions rises to the surface and creates permanent pools and reservoirs

4 Wings, birdsong echo through the narrow passage of the Sefar guelta - DESERT WHITE CROWNED WHEATEAR BIRD (muju muju) , Collared Pratincole

5 Wings, birdsong echo through the narrow passage of the Sefar guelta - DESERT WHITE CROWNED WHEATEAR BIRD (muju muju) , Collared Pratincole

6 Clothes being washed using water from the guelta somewhere towards the end of the recording

7 The location at which we came across the Ruffled mouflon or Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia (VU)}_{in the image to the left. It is likely that some of the rustling in the audio is them eating as well as wind swaying the trees.}

₈_{An orangery and date farm positioned above an oasis in the city of Djanet where the Tassili national park is located. Run by Mahfoud Zergui and Nannette van Zanten.}

^{image credit: Ismail Machar}