Name: five observations by Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung | 梁 詠 然 in Space Waves (June 2017)
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Description: performed by: Caleb Colledge, Eunice Goh, Courtney Cook, Conall O'Neill, Isabel McCafferty, Vanessa Tomlinson, Jasmin Leung

We’re delighted to hand over the reins this month to composer and current Making Waves Intern Marlene Radice @marlene-claudine-pringle-radice, who has curated this Space-themed playlist.  About the works chosen and the over-arching theme, Marlene writes:
"This playlist centres around compositions with a relationship to space. Space as a tangible area of existence, space as a gestural device, spacialisation of music and the idea of space in relation to places outside of our immediate consciousness.
Listening to this playlist and exploring how composers address these themes made me think of concepts such as wabi-sabi and the importance of the spaces between elements, and accepting sounds for their imperfections. What we don’t hear is just as important as the sounds we observe. These pieces all somehow explore what lies between what we hear and what we see."

We love discovering the resonances among these works: instrumental – several string quartets, various uses of electronics including Peter Anthony Smith on the Akai Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI); thematic – auras, aliens and nature; and stylistic – there is an expansiveness and dimension evoked by each work in its own way.  Many thanks to Marlene for her care in compiling this playlist.

Space Waves (June 2017)

Live performance by Decibel New Music ensemble, 05-07-2013

Bass Flute - Cat Hope
Bass Clarinet - Lindsay Vickery
Violin - Aaron Wyatt
Cello - Tristen Parr
Electronics - Stuart James

Live stereo recording of spatialised 8-channel electronics

The Aura Implicit

This is a recording of some interactions on a black grouse lek in the highlands of Scotland. 

It was recorded with a Sony M10 and a matched pair of Clippy EM172 mics.

AVIEMORE  - BLACK GROUSE LEK - EARLY MORNING - VERY CLOSE COOING AND HISSES 2.0 M10

Sirenity explores the mythology of the siren - hybrid woman with either bird-like or mer-like physical qualities, whose beautiful voices lured the all-too-easily corruptible minds of sailors to their peril.

Channelling spectralist, minimalist and ecoacoustic approaches, the work retains this dyadic relationship of characters: the sirens through humpback whale song and the sailor/victim in the airborne caws and calls of the wandering albatross (both sourced from recordings), with the former drawing the latter to its impending doom; the aftermath decaying back to the torrents of the sea.

Performed by the Australian String Quartet - Kristian Winther, Ioana Tache, Stephen King, Sharon Draper - as part of the National Composers' Forum 2013 in Elder Hall on 17 October 2013. Recorded by Kym Wilson, with technical assistance from Iran Sanadzadeh.

Sirenity

The Art of Dying: Sounds from the Mountains of Sulawesi. Known for their elaborate funeral ceremonies, mortuary practices, and cliffside burials, the Toraja of Sulawesi (Celebes) also make beautiful music. Here's a brief selection of Torjaja fiddle and flute music, and a song or two, culled from field recordings by the amazing Dana Rappoport, Aural Archipelago and others. You''ll also hear a backing track of lush regional forest soundscapes featuring a wide variety of exotic bird species and more.

The Art of Dying: Sounds from the Mountains of Sulawesi

Amphibian love songs and soundscapes (RIAFC090)
1. Night Sounds/Frogs from Myanmar (Burma) Ambient – Jesse Paul Miller
https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/myanmar-burma-ambient
2. Frogs Calling for Rain (Mae Hong Son, Thailand)  – Fred Gales (Sound Reporters)
https://soundreporters.bandcamp.com/
https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/de_klankbron_656300/
3. Frog Tannoy - Roi Et, Thailand - April 2008 – Jesse Paul Miller
https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/music
4. Kodok Solok - Frogs and bugs in Solok, West Sumatra, Indonesia (Aural Archipelago)
https://www.auralarchipelago.com/
5. Kiromboi from Sawaku: Music Of Sarawak (PAN Records – PAN 2067CD) and Night Lotus Pool from Night Recordings From Bali (Sublime Frequencies)
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576931-night-recordings-from-bali
6. Night Paddy Orchestra -  Kutuh, Bali from Bali - Night Nature  – Jesse Paul Miller
https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/bali-night-nature
7. Nyamwezy drummers (Intoxicating rhythms for the Monster of the Lake) and looped excerpt from Samia Bugwe. Musical Gems From Lake Victoria. Rec’d by David Fanshawe (Sapra Ltd. – CMIL 102). 
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/07/kenya-tanzania-uganda-musical-gems-from.html
8. Palenque - Frogs 4 - Recd by Felix Hess (Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico)
https://basicfunction-releases.bandcamp.com/
9. Túngara frog synthesizer at night (Gamboa, Panama) - Phillip Hermans
https://www.dinacon.org/2019/09/11/laser-tungara-frog-synth/
10. Le Chaco (Paraguay) - Indiens et Animaux Sauvages d'Amérique du Sud. Rec’d by Richard Chapelle (Unidisc – UD 30 1293, 1977)
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2017/12/brazil-paraguay-indiens-et-animaux.html
11. Night frogs from Villa Giardino Córdoba – Pablo Picco
https://bardotodolmonofonia.bandcamp.com/album/ambiente-w-rks-2012-2021
12. Kaw Mountain, Post-explosive Breeding (French Guiana) – Marc Namblard
https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=16085
13. Night frogs, La Sabana, Venezuela - David Toop (1978)
https://room40.bandcamp.com/track/night-frogs-la-sabana-venezuela-1978
14. Morning Chorus Above and Below a Creek in the Kroombit Mountains - Jeremy Hegge (Queensland, Australia, 2016)
https://soundcloud.com/jeremyhegge
15. 5.10 AM Banjo Frog (Pobble Bonk), BG Frogs (Crinnia Sp.), Raven (Australia) – Dawn Chorus: Early Morning Music of the Bush – John N. Hutchinson 
https://www.discogs.com/release/6288767-John-N-Hutchinson-Dawn-Chorus
16. Unknown didgeridoo performance recorded off the radio and an excerpt from the Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. 
17. 蛙蛙哇！Songs Of The Frogs Of Taiwan. Rec’d by Yannick Dauby (2009)
https://kalerne.bandcamp.com/
18. Frogs (Bachotek, Poland) - Gerrit Kalsbeek (Lola Radio)
https://lolaradio.blogspot.com/
19. Frog – Ear Explorer 
https://www.facebook.com/EarExplorer

Cover is a “Zen Picture” (Zenga) by Matsumoto Hoji, c. 1785

Amphibian Love Songs And Soundscapes (RIAFC090)

A huge thank you to the team at Gently Altered, Somad Fest, Summer House Cafe Delhi, Antisocial and Sarjapur Social for hosting me on my tour in India. To all the beautiful babes that showed up and showed out in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore I love ya'll down!

Until next time India 🇮🇳 Meri Jaan 💖

Lady Shaka Live @ FLOW | MUMBAI | INDIA

Originally from Inner Mongolia, Deng Boyu has been active in the Chinese music underground since the late 1990s. His work spans numerous genres, as a drummer, solo electronics artist, improviser and collaborator to many musicians both in and out of China, including Mamer, Lao Dan, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Ribot, Akira Sakata, Theresa Wong and Federico Casagrande. Having hosted two of his releases on our site through the Old Heaven label, we're delighted to present《Inertion》on our in-house OTOroku imprint.

Deng Boyu – 她的眼睛失去了光华 Her Eyes Lost Their Luster

30.1.23
kuku yalanji country

puddle on the edge of the road in rural area with surrounding remnants of tropical rainforest and vine forest.

Nyctimystes infrafrenatus, Litoria rubella, Rhinella marina + Litoria caerulea and Ninox rufa in the background. i haven't ID'd the little squeaky frog.

frog chorus, julatten

This seminal 3 LP Box set of Georgian Folk music, featuring enthralling harmonies, ranging from the melodious to the dissonant and abstract, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
 https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/07/georgia-georgie-georgia-in-folk-song.html

Georgia in Folk Songs – Melodiya 016491– 016496 (3 LPs)

Georgia polyphonic vocal Mix

crossing

How can one represent the aural landscape of an environment that is potentially beyond the understanding of the audience, whilst using sound material which is embedded with association to the known human world?

A collection of soundscape compositions from my 2014 Honours submission. 

6. Selective Analysis - Life - Form 1b

ORGANFISH
extract - mono sequence rec. as it is with hydrophone crt c55 direct to sound devices 722
mamori, amazonas, brazil _ nov 2009, slavek kwi.
you can hear: subaquatic insects, various soniferous fish and tonal-like electric field of unidentified gymnotiform electric fish.
available as CD from www.artificialmemorytrace.com - last few copies left!



ORGANFISH (electric fish field_sample)

flute and violin with electronic processing
played by Maddie Remont and Harry Nguyen
using Jeff Noon's Cobralingus Engine

cobralingus art run 1

performed by: Caleb Colledge, Eunice Goh, Courtney Cook, Conall O'Neill, Isabel McCafferty, Vanessa Tomlinson, Jasmin Leung

five observations

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five observations

Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung | 梁詠然

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