Some selections. May be added to.

(I lived in Tasmania for just over eight years. I left in June 2009. This was my first journey back , after fourteen years. With different ears.)

2023.09.06-29 To Tasmania and Back, by Car

I assembled a handful of drum vignettes using different types of sequencing methods, using recordings of rusty metal sounds from an airbnb I visited in Elmore, VT in July 2023. (Notes to follow)

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"Rust Drum Collage" was submitted as part of ​the Disquiet Junto Project 0612: Drum Vector. The Assignment: Walk the listener through variations on the same percussive instrument.

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Rust Drum Collage • [disquiet 0612]

Victorian Smooth Froglets (Geocrinia victoriana), also known as Eastern Smooth Froglets, singing from the margins of a forest pool between bouts of strong wind through the crests of Eucalyptus regnens. Recorded at noon in early Spring in Great Otway National Park, Victoria.

Listening at a low to mid level with good quality headphones (binaural recording) is recommended.

Recorded on the land of the indigenous Gadubanud (Katabanut) peoples.

2023.09.06 Smooth Froglets between the Wind. Early Spring.

A calm and meditative ambience recorded during early evening at the edge of Lake Elizabeth, Great Otway National Park, just before the onset of strong winds followed by heavy rain that continued throughout the night.

Listening at a low to mid level with good quality headphones (preferably open-backed) is recommended. Binaural recording.

Recorded on the land of the indigenous Gadubanud (Katubanut) peoples.

About the recent natural formation of Lake Elizabeth: https://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/coranregn.nsf/pages/corangamite_landform_lake_elizabeth

2023.09.07 Lake Elizabeth Quietude 1. Early Spring.

A calm and meditative ambience recorded during the early evening, in a rare still moment prior to heavy rain and high winds, near Lake Elizabeth, Great Otway National Park.

Listening at a low to mid level with good quality headphones (preferably open-backed) is recommended. Binaural recording.

Recorded on the land of the indigenous Gadubanud (Katubanut) peoples.

About the recent natural formation of Lake Elizabeth: https://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/coranregn.nsf/pages/corangamite_landform_lake_elizabeth

2023.09.07 Lake Elizabeth Quietude 2. Early Spring.

Created with AUM and various plugins on iPad, mastered in Cubase 12 with Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 510:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/11/naviarhaiku510-in-pre-dawn-darkness/

Photo by zenbytes (2023, near Pathfinder Dam, Wyoming, USA)

darkness of rainfall - Naviarhaiku 510

26.10.2023

armonica trumpet
+
generative sound

trick or  (disquiet0617)

release date :29/10/2023   
Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Once Full Of Life (naviarhaiku 512)

Made in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0617: Haunt Scape
The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing.
There is just one step to this project: Halloween is nearly here, so make some haunted sounds for people to play for trick-or-treaters.

I don't always enjoy the scary things, but I really enjoyed making some scary music. I jammed for about an hour on some hardware gear with this prompt in mind. Later that night, I walked around the house recording my creeky wood floors and rusty doors. Then cut for length and added some effects and edits in Live. 
While I was making these sounds, my wife Monica created this digital collage image. We enjoyed this simultaneous creative process and plan on doing it again. She wrote about this here: https://waxingphotopoetic.substack.com/p/circle-of-tree-thieves-creaking-in?r=7wafc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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Tree Thieves Creak in the Hollow - A Haunt Scape [Disquiet0617]

More on this 617th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Haunt Scape (The Assignment: Halloween is coming up. Do your thing), at: https://disquiet.com/0617/

The cover image (enlarged, type added) is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull#/media/File:3d_CT_scan_animation.gif

That image is credited to Arielinson and used thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

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Disquiet0617 - The Uninvited

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Nuennone people.

The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae victoriae) is not native to Tasmania: it was deliberately introduced there - by an ornithology group. Between 1934 and 1949, 22 Superb Lyrebirds were released at Mt Field National Park in the mid south and at Hastings in the far south. The Lyrebirds flourished, and continue to spread widely. Today, experts estimate that their population must be well over 10,000, if not even higher. The Superb Lyrebird has basically 'gone feral'.  And it's known to be having some negative impacts on forest ecosystems. However, one thing that I haven't yet seen discussed or studied is what negative acoustic-ecological impacts Lyrebirds might be having upon native and especially endemic Tasmanian bird species. Some forest soundscapes are being overwhelmed by multiple Lyrebirds, spread through the forest, simultaneously performing intricate, complex and well-projected mimicry for very long periods of time. Fascinating as this is, it's very hard to believe that the native and endemic bird species can communicate naturally and effectively, as they need to do, when such mayhem is going on.

2023.09.23 Superb Lyrebird Being Itself. Dawn. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

This is second of the four tracks of a new collaboration with my music friend Pete Swinton. I will be re-working some of his tracks from his excellent Butterfly and Ship album.

peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-and-ship
This track is a re-work of his track - 05. Two Ships

It was mixed in the AUM app on my iPad and used iPad effects apps such as OtherDesertCities, MoogeFooger MF104s Delay,Speakers and Grnad Finale.

Butterfly And Ship (with Pete Swinton)  2.Dysphasia

Eymptura

This track is part of Athenian Truckstop Issue #4 Songs for Dreaming release, found here:
atheniantruckstop.bandcamp.com/album/iss…-dreaming

The theme was dreams

Todd Tuttle https://soundcloud.com/user-849753517-658869299 drumset, percussion, voices, whistling, words

@douglasmseidel: banjo, bass, beans, drum, cowbell, gong, organ, other stuff, penta guitar, toy piano, water jug


it started with a plastic 24oz jar
half filled with foamy yellow liquid and some very sticky residue at the top

tom of tom and jerry
fame
had one broken ear
and he was sitting on the ledge of the garage window

I can’t remember what I was doing

but I know I was wearing a
poultry keel necklace
that laid so elegantly
over my clavicles

every thought
every measure
gets bigger and faster
and further from the next

plumb shucks said thumb plucks
untuck that loose end of the dumpling lover
and wrap some warm rising dough around your head
dumb luck kept ducking under the fun chunks
until he realized he was bouncing on a shingle instead
he said that’s some kinda skipping slip of the bliss bud

chimichuck said to raisin brains

wrench mouth woman has a heart in her throat
with the wave of her stick arms she weaves me a coat
the birds that are flying carry sticks to her breast
crescent mouth moon lucky charms and the rest

sticky residue

This was my offering for the Modular World: Reverb Challenge on their Youtube Channel December 10, 2023. Here is a video of that performance https://youtu.be/jQL5gOG-2Ss

Surfing The Feedback

'Windy dawn quietude' might sound like a contradiction, but the recording earns the label 'Quietude' thanks to the complete absence of any anthropogenic noise. To be sure, the wind soughing through Mountain Ash forest and soft tree ferns dominates the soundscape, but the Eastern Smooth Froglets and the small birds of dawn nevertheless make their presence clearly heard. This excerpt from a longer recording, made in Great Otway National Park, Victoria, begins at Second Light.

Good quality headphones (preferably with a 'flat frequency response', and open-backed) are recommended, especially as this is a binaural recording. The original 96/32 recording has been converted to 48/24, but is otherwise entirely unprocessed.

Recorded on the land of the indigenous Gadubanud (Katabanut) peoples.

2023.09.07 Windy Dawn Quietude beside the Smooth Froglet Pool. Early Spring.

While staying for a week in Launceston, Tasmania, with my daughter, we were very fortunate to enjoy a private tour of Waverley Mills. Of course, I asked whether I could I bring my recording gear along to make some recordings in the factory. No problem. Here are some ear-glimpses. However, the one vitally important element that isn't heard in these glimpses is the people on the floor who make the whole manufacturing process happen. Their knowledge and skill, matured over many years, was deeply impressive. (I did record some impromptu informal 'interviews', or conversations, on the floor, but without particular individuals' (and management's) permissions, these couldn't be included, here.)

To provide some background to Waverley Mills, I quote from a description written by Susan West in 2017: "Waverley Mill was built 143 years ago [150 years ago today], in 1874. Waverley has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the decimation of the Australian manufacturing industry. At its peak, Waverley employed over 300 people, and its beautiful blankets and fabrics were sold all over the world. Waverley even supplied Qantas with business and first class woollen blankets for all of their aircraft.

The wool manufacturing industry in Australia has virtually died. Today, most of our wool gets exported in its raw state to be processed in China. We then buy it back as fabric or finished goods. Only one woollen mill in Australia has survived all this – Waverley Mill. Unless we can save it, it will be lost forever. Waverley is a fully functioning mill – from carding and spinning, to dyeing and weaving. Waverley already has the equipment and staff to produce the highest quality rugs, throws, blankets, scarves and fabrics. ...

There are other groups making beautiful woollen products in Australia. Waverley Mills is the last mill to card, dye, spin, weave, and finish, all under the same roof. No one else is left who is doing all of that!"

Source: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/australia-s-last-woollen-mill-needs-your-help#/

Track photo by Nina Hamilton, published in Emma Do (2019), 'Yarn for the Ages'. (https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/fashion/article/inside-waverley-mills)

Recorded on the land of the Tyerrernotepanner (and possibly also the Pyemmairrener) people of Lutruwita (Tasmania).

2023.09.11 Waverley Mills. Launceston, Tasmania.

𝔈𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔯, 𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔫 𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱, 𝔞 𝔐𝔬𝔡𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔅𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤.

2023.09.23 Superb Lyrebird Being Itself. Dawn. Huon Valley. Early Spring.

𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕭𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘

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