A work based on recordings taken along the Berlin Wall around New Years Day, 1990. The main sound is Berliners chipping at the wall that had divided the city for forty years, looking for a souvenir, especially a section with graffiti. By mid-January little of the wall remained. 
Recordings were made by me on analog cassette tape with a Sony walkman. More recordings were taken in Berlin, and in Leipzig and Dresden in East Germany at the time. THe piece attempts to describe a place through sound, filtered through an Australian ear. The work explores the interplay of the rhythms found in the percussive sound of the chipping at the wall.

Ein Stück von der Mauer (A piece of the wall)

The inspiration for frognight came from the sounds of frogs, cicadas, birds and other environmental sound during a visit to far north Queensland, Australia. Some of these can be heard through the piece. Saxophone was sampled, with multiphonics chosen to match the pitches of the cicadas, and a melodic fragment that traces the bird call. Many thanks to Katia Beaugeais http://www.newmusicblock.com for her performance and advice on the saxophone.
frognight was first performed at 60x60 Dance, St Louis Mo, USA http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60/2011_Dance_The_Sheldon_St_Louis.htm.

AnthonyHood