Absolutely sublime composition, beautifully performed, with extremely interesting explanation of the graphic score -- many thanks


This music was composed and performed by Mas Bowo, Dale Gorfinkel and Rully Shabara for a site responsive work 'Between two trees, between two ears' (2014)created for The Instrument Builders Project in Yogyakarta.

‘Between two trees, between two ears’ consists of a set of custom-made leather sound-masks that simultaneously blindfold the viewer and provide them with a unique soundtrack.

The work responds the folklore of masangin, the ritual of walking blindfolded through the twin banyan trees located in the Alun Alun Kidul (southern city square). It is believed that those having pure hearts can walk directly through the two sacred trees, reflecting a message that we must work hard to achieve our destination.


Between two trees, between two ears (2014), composition 2

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Someambi

'Drawn together, Held Apart' 2015. Custom made table with inbuilt surface transducer speaker, led lighting and audio (including found recordings and additional electronic music by Andrew Mclellan)

Drawn Together, Held Apart (excerpt)

This is an excerpt from an audiowalk track for my project 'Tree-telling'.  Tree-telling involved six hand crafted divination cards and six sonic compositions, each responding to a tree in Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne. The installation also involved a week of one-on-one card readings.  The project was curated by Liquid Architecture for MPavilion, Melbourne.

Music for tree-telling composed by David M Thomas.

Pheonix Rising (excerpt)

Performance of my Graphic Score Sydney Cathedral Choral Vespers Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. By Eneksis Vocal Ensemble, directed by Michael McCarthy, at Drawn From Sound, Perth, April 11th 2013.

The score is made from dust, collected in Sydney Cathedral and scattered onto an overhead projector. Over a period of 300 or so hours I traced the shadow with the smallest ink nib. The resulting "Map of the Infinite" was one of twelve scores made from dust collected in sanctified places. All of the scores are to be sung by human voice.

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Performance of Score: Sydney Cathedral Choral Vespers Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

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I have long been fascinated by the ancient city of Babylon, hence the present track.  

The spoken text is a conflation of Revelation 17:5 and 18:2, attempted in the koine Greek of two millennia past, with the odd screwup in pronunciation (e.g. of "the abominations").  Perhaps these screwups are a fitting irony, when one considers the legend of the Tower of Babel and its associated scrambling of an initially universal primal language.

Ordinarily, I strive to avoid seeking to sound too much like a cheap imitation of those whose music I most admire.  I suspended this practice for the present track, which exhibits strong influences from Organum (e.g. "In Extremis"), Throbbing Gristle and Current 93 (e.g. "Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)" from "Nature Unveiled").

Sound sources: Multi-tracked voice, Korg MS-10, Roland JX-03, running water in the shower, makeshift gong made using a cooking-pot lid suspended with twine.

Lastly, in case you might be interested, here are some previous SoundCloud postings which may be viewed as sister tracks to the present offering, since they also draw on apocalyptic themes:

https://soundcloud.com/david-paganin/the-divine-comedy-infernal-purgatorial-and-paradisical-drones-for-ye-wretched-of-the-earth

https://soundcloud.com/david-paganin/the-annihilating-angel-is-coming-to-get-you

https://soundcloud.com/david-paganin/rage-rage-against-the-dessicating-void

Babylon the Great has Fallen: from earsheltering.free.fr/earsheltering088.html

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Mothering Bacteria, 30 minutes, loop. 3-channel A/V Installation and Live performance, 2018. Bacteria and environmental sounds translated through contact microphones with the addition of processed voice, delay and loop. 

Credits:
Sound: prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff
Project: Gabriela Aceves-Sepúlveda, prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff

Project Synopsis:
Mothering Bacteria is a durational interactive installation that explores maternal notions of caretaking bacteria that resides on and off the skin – and how we can hold symbiotic spaces for co-becoming other. Building on what Butoh dancer Iwana Masaki describes as a process of extricating pure life from our bodies, artists Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda, prOphecy sun and Freya Zinovieff use expanded and contracting movement sequences, alongside an ambient soundscore to transform, hold and reveal the complex ecosystem of the self. The sounds are a symbiotic response to how bacteria grows and moves within the confines of the gallery. The artists use their mid-age female bodies inscribed by the lived experience of childbearing as metaphors to reflect on how their bodies are situated as hosts of non-human entities and reflect upon their corporeal capacities to ameliorate themselves. The female body here is a host and an environment constantly entangled in the production of Self and Other.

Mothering Bacteria

Colby Martin joins the show and shares his martial arts journey.

Episode 56 featuring Colby Martin

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Artist and Researcher exploring the potential for sonic languages to transcribe human and more-than-human planetary relationships.

Performance of Score: Sydney Cathedral Choral Vespers Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Freya Zinovieff

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