Title: re-ORIENT
When: 2013
Where: Brisbane AUS
About: Extended backing track from 'Sounds of Dis-ORIENTation' (live 2013). A further development on 'Armour Down' remixed in 2010 for 'Remix/Reform' album by Brisbane band Ektoise.

Listen with video montage vimeo.com/111204473

Link to 'Sounds of Dis-ORIENTation' project:
http://www.amberhansen.com/sounds-of-dis-orientation.html

re-ORIENT (feat. Ektoise)

TITLE: The Old Streets of Amoy
WHEN: 2011
WHERE: Brisbane AUS
ABOUT: A contemporary sonic imagining of the place where my distant paternal Chinese heritage is from. Recorded, composed and edited on ProTools.

'Old Street' in the title signifies the time I spend exploring the Asian Underground scene around Shoreditch, East London from 2004-2007. 'Amoy' is the old colonial name given to the city of 'Xiamen' found in the Fujian province of SE China. This is where my paternal great great grandfather emigrated to Australia from.

The photo attached to this track is of old gate to the city of Amoy.

This region of China was the Far Eastern end of the maritime Silk Route. Up until the Tang Dynasty, the alternative to the overland Silk Road where there was much trade with other cultures as far as India, Middle Eastern and Europe. 

Featuring: Nicholas Ng (erhu), Ravi Singh (Indian Tabla), Azam Idris (Drum Kit) plus unknown darbucka recording found on an old mini disc recording. 

The Old Streets of Amoy (ft. Nicholas Ng, Ravi Singh and Azam Idris)

TITLE: la grotta azzura (ambient version)
WHEN: 2009
WHERE: London UK
IMAGE CREDIT: 'The Blue Grotto' by late Romantic Painter Heinrich Jakob Fried.

ABOUT: Ambient mix of 'la grotto azzura' (the blue grotto), originally created for AAIR Radio Ana Capri Remix competition hosted by the London School of Architecture in 2007. All samples utilised in the remix were recorded around the Island of Capri and provided by AAIR. Sound editing and composition/remix performed in Logic Pro.

​Competition judges included Brian Eno (UK) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (JAP/USA).  As there were too many good submissions, AAIR decided to not award only one winner. La grotto azzura was featured first amongst all international submissions published online. Remix Competition site now inactive.

la grotto azzura (ambient mix)

TITLE: The Last Veil
WHEN: 2012
WHERE: Brisbane AUS
ABOUT: A composition/remix created by layering and manipulating samples from recordings of Arabic music recitals I curated and presented during my Master of Music candidature (2010-2012)

The title allures to the mythology and exoticism behind 'Dance of the Seven Veils'. This story is also thought to have originated from the myth of Ishtar passing through the seven gates of the underworld. The soundscape itself shifts ambiguously between seven semi-distinct movements.

The Last Veil

TITLE: Váfa
WHEN: 2020
WHERE: Brisbane AUS
ABOUT: Original soundscape composed between March-May 2020. Initial ideas were created while preparing to perform an improvised electroacoustic set at the next Oscillo Scape (16) event held at Alchemix studios, South Brisbane. Event postponed due to Covid-19 lock down.

Title of track inspired by etymology of the word 'wave'. 'Váfa' is Old Norse / Icelandic word meaning: "(v) to fluctuate, waver, doubt; (n) ghost".

Váfa

Electroacoustic Music and Sound by Brisbane based artist Amber Hansen.

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