Name: BigHit by bird_bluerobin
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Remix: prepared piano/piano innards and table tennis balls, random dog barks (2009), with added electronic track (2025).

Ode to Massive Obsession first track from the debut album 'In the Eyes of the Other' coming soon.

Music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzqpd5iHBJg

Ode To A Massive Obsession

'But it's getting harder to ignore'
Some things just aren't meant to last, and sometimes that is a good thing.

Ignore exposes the honest thoughts and doubts about the relationships you convince yourself are worth staying in only for the hope that things might get better, but they just never do. You can only ignore so many red flags before you find yourself buried beneath them and struggling to find your way out.

Ignore

Georgina Brett, David Grundy, Steve Beresford and Douglas Benford performing as Multiple Melodicas at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK. June 2023.

Multiple Melodicas at Cafe Oto, June 2023

Q.E. Releases Haunting Love Letter 'To Tasmania' with New Single

Producer and songwriter Q.E. (Jacky Collyer) unveils 'To Tasmania', a stirring homage to her nipaluna/Hobart home that captures the momentum of a coastal drive, with swirling synthesizers and raw emotional storytelling.

Co-produced and engineered alongside iconic producer Stew Long (Psycroptic, Violent Femmes, Hey Mook and The Raccoons), 'To Tasmania' marks a bold step in Q.E.'s evolution. At its core, the track is driven by Damien Kingston's soaring, luminous guitar work intertwining with Collyer's crystalline synth textures, while Tom Robb (drums) and Hamish Houston (bass) provide a powerful rhythmic foundation that pushes the song forward like a car on an ocean road.

'To Tasmania' is available now on all major streaming platforms.

This song is about moving to nipaluna/Hobart.
It was something my friend Dante once said whilst on shift at the bakery.

This song was recorded on muwinina Country, in what is now known as nipaluna/Hobart. Colonial invasion and warfare deliberately eliminated the muwinina through genocide. In their absence, I acknowledge the palawa as the ongoing custodians of this land. They are the survivors, continuing the culture and stories of their old people and striving for rights and recognition.

As a white settler creating art about finding home and community on this stolen land, I acknowledge the profound contradiction in celebrating my connection to a place that represents such deep loss and ongoing trauma for its First Peoples. The very name "Tasmania" represents a colonial project that has caused and continues to cause deep harm, while Aboriginal people continue to face systemic injustice, including ongoing incarceration, child removal and dispossession.

I acknowledge the incredible determination and resilience of our palawa community, whose culture and identity have been intertwined with this land and sea for millennia. While this song speaks to personal healing found in this place, I recognise that true healing cannot occur without justice, reparations and the return of lands and children to First Nations communities across so called "Australia".

This acknowledgement is offered as part of an ongoing commitment to truth-telling and action towards justice. I acknowledge that we have much to learn from Aboriginal people and pay my deepest respects to Elders past and present and to all Aboriginal people living in and around nipaluna/Hobart today. 
lyrics
You move to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You move to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong

And now I am home
Not wondering no more
Bout that hurricane that blew open the door
Everything I wrote
Painful note for note
Like bricks that weigh me down to the ocean floor

You moved to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You moved to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong

I put a mountain between us
And an ocean too
God you’re so hateful
I still break down
I had nothing left to lose

You moved to Tasmania
What are you running from?
You moved to Tasmania
When everything had just gone wrong.
credits
released November 15, 2024
To Tasmania
Written by Jacky Collyer
Engineered / Produced by Jacky Collyer & Stew Long
Mixed by Stew Long
Mastered by King Willy Bowden

Vox/Keys/Synths - Jacky Collyer
Guitars - Damien Kingston
Drums - Tom Robb
Bass - Hamish Houston
license
all rights reserved

To Tasmania

Remix: prepared piano/piano innards and table tennis balls, random dog barks (2009), with added electronic track (2025).

BigHit

Recording of the Australian premiere of Pauline Oliveros' 13 Changes - for Malcolm Goldstein. Performed at a venue in Brisbane, Australia, 2015.

Adam Cadell - Pauline Oliveros 13 Changes Aus Premiere 2015

This is an experimental performance/recording/improvisation based on recordings and samples from the "Ramallah Syndrome" project.

 هذا تسجيل/عرض/ارتجال تجريبي من تسجيلات لمحادثات من مشروع "متلازمة رام الله".

"Ramallah Syndrome is a collective that examines the side effect of the new spatial and social order that emerged after the collapse of the Oslo ‘peace process’ that was manifested in an urban psychology of ‘hallucination of normality’, the fantasy of a co-existence of occupation and liberty. " 
متلازمة رام الله"
هو عمل جماعي يتحرى الآثار الجانبية للنظام الاجتماعي والحيزي الجديد الذي ظهر بعد انهيار عملية أوسلو للسلام، وما تجلى عنها من سيكولوجيا حضرية "بتوهم الوضع الطبيعي"، خيال التعايش المشترك مع الاحتلال والحرية. يميل العمل الجماعي إلى التشكيك في قضايا مثل الأوهام والواقع بخصوص تأسيس دولة فلسطينية ذات سيادة، وبنفس الطريقة، تبعات تواصل النظام الكولونيالي "وأثره على الهوية الوطنية الفلسطينية. 


Thank you to the A.M Qattan Foundation for providing me with the recordings.
 شكر خاص لمؤسسة القطان لتوفير التسجيلات الصوتية. .

Ramallah Syndrome - متلازمة رام الله -Experimental Performance/Recording

taken from our new album 'Kill the Lights'

Kill the lights 

Shadow and Dust

モバイル音ゲーTone Sphereエピソード「6秒後の砂の城」書き下ろし曲

Original song for the mobile rhythm game Tone Sphere episode "Six Seconds Later"

Tone Sphere

Q.E.

Marco Lucchi : toy harp and Juno synthesizer

1 dicembre 2020

***

Our share of night to bear -
Our share of morning -
Our blank in bliss to fill,
Our blank in scorning -

Here a star, and there a star,
Some lose their way!
Here a mist - and there a mist -
Afterwards - Day!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°20 (+ Juno koto)

Composer and acoustic artist interested in sound experiments, dialogue, improvisation and collaboration across art forms: visual arts, word texts, dance and sound art: art speaking for lived experience. Andrea Breen

https://andreabreen.bandcamp.com/follow_me

BigHit

bird_bluerobin

Related tracks