This is a theme, discovered by Rory (see the other track with the same title) in a tubular metal fence at the "Jubilee View" picnic spot on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. It's now the theme for the show of the same name.

How've You Been? (Pipes Version)

This is a clip from a piece named for a beach on Ascension, with a rocky point in the centre, where there is a small rounded sea-cut chamber. The sea flows in and out of the chamber, triggering its natural resonances, which respond nicely to a bit of targeted EQing!

English Bay

This is a work-in-progress snippet from the film collage that will accompany the second half of the show "How've You Been?", and is taken from a piece titled "Ariane 02". The live elements in this piece will be voice, and a gorgeous 3rd octave pipe solo.

Donald Lindsay's Album

Ariane 02

This is "Two Boats", a theme on the 12 string (unison) guitar. The video's a kind of a picture postcard view of the village on Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Two Boats is the smaller of the island's two villages, built in the '60s for the BBC World Service relay station.

Two Boats

A pipe theme inspired by an improv on some singing boulders by Rosie, as yet untitled...

Grey Desert

The title refers to a picnic spot right beside the "ramps", the winding road that snakes up the front of Green Mountain. The audio's all derived from a fairly lo-fi recording of the calls of a pair of fairy terns, perched in a Eucalyptus tree above the bench, and accompanied by the sound of wind in the foliage.

Concrete Bench

This is a piece of "found music" discovered by Rory within the structure of a tubular fence.

How've You Been? Original

There's a big tree in the village, quite old for Two Boats, where all of the Mynah birds in the East end of the village gather at sundown to spend the night. This is the sound of them waking up in the morning.

Mynah Tree

Clinker hollow, 16th Nov 2021. Improvised pipe solo. Optical-electro-acoustic Lindsay System prototype recorded using Tascam DR-100 for the mic's and Portastudio for the dual optical line out.

Video at :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCArnTrzaDWbpk2nLsYQhCNw?view_as=subscriber

Clinker Hollow, 16th Nov 2021

Following an interview with "Jazz at the Third Eye" curator Stewart Smith on the Sunday 21st November edition of Freeness, Corey Mwamba gave an airing to the first of four pieces that I was commissioned to produce for the project, in collaboration with Siya Makuzeni on trombone & fx vocals, and Thiago França on saxophone.

As Corey puts it so beautifully, this piece "speaks to hope, and innovation", and we were drawing for the four pieces in the commission on a swirling mixture of influences, including the anti-apartheid movement in Glasgow at the time, the rebirth of the Scottish smallpipes & (ongoing) reinvention and demilitarisation of Scottish piping through the folk movement, the presence in Glasgow of Brotherhood of Breath, Julian Bahula and others at that time, the political and cultural currents present in work being presented at the Third Eye and negotiations which seem to have taken place there.

Untitled (Third Eye Commission), on BBC R3 Freeness, 21/11/21

Donald WG Lindsay is a Scottish musician and musical instrument designer/inventor, on Ascension Island until July 2021.