release date: 28 december 2021
 This is the final episode of the Sonic Sketchbooks podcast for 2021. There will be an indeterminate hiatus before starting up again. If you stay subscribed, the next episode should appear for you sometime in February 2022. 

For this past year of 2021, I’ve been getting together with two friends and artist colleagues - Michael Thomas Hill and Ross Rudesch Harley - to make sounds with our various synthesisers, music softwares, mics and a couple of ‘normal’ instruments. In the tradition of such things, much time was spent coming up with a collective name - together we are CHORDATA. This episode is the debut airing of a few of the Chordata sonic constructions. 

At the beginning of the year, here in Sydney Australia - Gadigal land of the Eora nation - we’d get together weekly in Ross’s home studio to wrestle with multiple devices, too many cables and adaptors, an antiquated mix desk, analogue/digital signal translations, over-complicated softwares and our differing musical preferences, to create freeform soundscapes that perhaps only a parent could love. Gradually each of us succumbed to the allure of modular synthesis, buying into different devices and systems that suit our varying temperaments and sonic preferences.

During the three-month-plus mid-year COVID-19 stay-at-home lockdown we devised a methodology to continue the investigative pleasures of our weekly sonic get togethers, without actually getting together. 

Using a shared online folder, each of us prepared bed tracks of four minutes duration and nominated one of the other three to add a second layer which would be forwarded to the third Chordata member for addition of a final layer. Along with the time limit, another rule was titles of a single four letter word. 

Over he lockdown, we generated over 40 of these sound sketches from which I’ve selected just five for this episode - kelp, musk, poly, board, and tint - preceded by an earlier live recording we titled ’No.1 in Norway’.

52 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - Chordata

Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

Wave Idea

Excerpts from Soft Matter, Hypersensitive Instruments (2023). Music by Alexis Weaver, poetry by Dr Geosmin Turpin. 

Premiered in 2023 at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. 28th October 2023.

falling to earth (Excerpt)

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/73qKXZtnPvHnG2WCK9rvMz?si=x-zFiim-RDih-QR5slkFlw

Sunset by the Sea

Sunset by the Sea (Radio-Edit)

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CMPN1013 - Week 2

CMPN week 2 6:3 bounce

Demo(1)

Sound objects

Ficta I.

This is documentation of a live stream from Eudlo Creek for Horizon Festival for the project 'Listening in the Wild' featuring the voices of Lyndon Davis and Brent Miller from Gubbi Gubbi Dance.  

Listening in the Wild is a series of immersive soundscapes exploring environments across the Sunshine Coast produced live and streamed online for listeners to engage with at home. These experiences are created by artists Lyndon Davis, Leah Barclay and Tricia King as transient listening experiences interwoven with Kabi Kabi stories. Listening in the Wild comprises three separate experiences, streamed live online and also available post event for audiences to access anywhere at any time. The locations include virtual sound walks through Eudlo Creek National Park, a journey along the Maroochy River and an ocean expedition from Mooloolaba Beach. Each soundscape is accompanied by site-specific photography captured by Sunshine Coast based documentary photographer Tricia King.

This is a deep listening experience with binaural soundscapes that are best experienced with headphones. ​We encourage you to close your eyes, put your headphones on and lie down somewhere quiet to listen.

Listen to the live streams – www.listeninginthewild.com

Horizon Festival – https://www.horizonfestival.com.au/event/listening-in-the-wild
Lyndon Davis - https://www.datsip.qld.gov.au/news-media/deadly-stories/deadly-stories-gallery/north-coast/lyndon-davis 
Leah Barclay - https://www.usc.edu.au/staff/dr-leah-barclay 
Tricia King - https://www.usc.edu.au/staff/tricia-king
This project is supported by the School of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

The Eudlo Creek edition of Listening in the Wild builds on work started in 2019 as part of the Eudlo Creek Project – a creative initiative that responds to the cultural and biological diversity of Eudlo Creek and its interconnected wetlands and rainforest. The project brings together art, science, technology and first nations cultural heritage through the lens of acoustic ecology and environmental education. The Eudlo Creek project was developed and delivered by Arts Front in partnership with the Montessori International College (MIC) during 2019 - https://artsfront.com/event/5266-eudlo-creek

LISTENING IN THE WILD - EUDLO CREEK (LIVE STREAM, 19 JULY 2020)

This is documentation of a live stream for Horizon Festival for the project 'Listening in the Wild'. 

This week we take you on ocean expedition from Mooloolaba to Old Woman Island with the soundscapes of migrating humpback whales, dolphins and our local reefs interwoven with Kabi Kabi stories of place from Lyndon Davis. 

Visit www.listeninginthewild.com to explore images from the site by Tricia King before listening to the soundscape. 

This edition of Listening in the Wild is supported by Subsurface Scuba and the Reef Clean Team Sunshine Coast - www.subsurfacescuba.com 

Listening in the Wild is a series of immersive soundscapes exploring environments across the Sunshine Coast produced live and streamed online for listeners to engage with at home. These experiences are created by artists Lyndon Davis, Leah Barclay and Tricia King as transient listening experiences interwoven with Kabi Kabi stories. Listening in the Wild comprises three separate experiences, streamed live online and also available post event for audiences to access anywhere at any time. The locations include virtual sound walks through Eudlo Creek National Park, a journey along the Maroochy River and an ocean expedition from Mooloolaba Beach. Each soundscape is accompanied by site-specific photography captured by Sunshine Coast based documentary photographer Tricia King.

This is a deep listening experience with binaural soundscapes that are best experienced with headphones. ​We encourage you to close your eyes, put your headphones on and lie down somewhere quiet to listen.

Listen to the live streams – www.listeninginthewild.com
Horizon Festival – https://www.horizonfestival.com.au/event/listening-in-the-wild 
Lyndon Davis - https://www.datsip.qld.gov.au/news-media/deadly-stories/deadly-stories-gallery/north-coast/lyndon-davis 
Leah Barclay - www.usc.edu.au/staff/dr-leah-barclay
Tricia King - www.usc.edu.au/staff/tricia-king

Listening in the Wild is supported by the School of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast – https://www.usc.edu.au/about/structure/schools/school-of-creative-industries

LISTENING IN THE WILD - OLD WOMAN ISLAND (LIVE STREAM, 26 JULY 2020)

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Alexis Weaver is an electronic composer based in Sydney, Australia. She has composed soundtracks for animation, film, short stories, radio, theatre and dance.

Living and creating on Gadigal and Wangal Land.

Photo @kopi_su_studios

falling to earth (Excerpt)

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