Tarhu Connections: Rapturous, by Ros Bandt @ros.bandt

For tarhu, air slide whistle, ancient bronze cymbals, recorder head joints, field recordings from Arizona from the Listen N biosphere reserve database, recorded by Leah Barclay.
A remix from a longer 8 channel work Raptor commissioned for the Listen N festival, USA.

'Rapturous is a fast ride with the Golden eagle Acquilla Chrysaetos  making its way from Joshua Tree Biosphere reserve to Beaver Creek, Arizona, USA where it was recorded.  The granulated eagle calls are stretched to represent the psycho-perceptual orientation of the eagle, solitary, looking down over the land. The tarhu is the eagle’s eye, a moving point through which we experience its strength, subtlety and economy in controlling the aerodynamic ride.  Listen with headphones. The eagle is a long way up.' - Ros Bandt

Tarhu Connections: Rapturous, by Ros Bandt

Glossolalia is a string quartet that is conceived of as a sort of critique of modernism from within; using elements of 20th Century modernist culture, it gradually erodes them through various playing techniques and radical detuning of the strings. As the players begin to battle with the increasingly volatile and failing instruments, the musical language moves closer to a kind of involuntary onomatopoeia, resembling the sounds of concrete nature more than abstract culture.

Performance details: 2016 BIFEM, Bendigo Town Hall, recorded and mixed by Jem Savage. Erkki Veltheim and Elizabeth Welsh, violins, Graeme Jennings, viola, Judith Hamann, cello.

Erkki Veltheim is a composer, improviser, performer and interdisciplinary artist. He has been commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, Vivid Festival, Australian Art Orchestra, Musica nova Helsinki and Punctum, and his pieces have been performed by groups such as the London Sinfonietta, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the Australian Art Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Elision and Ensemble Modern, and has featured as a soloist with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Opera and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has long-standing collaborations with late indigenous musician Dr G Yunupingu, improvising trumpet virtuoso Scott Tinkler and composer-pianist Anthony Pateras.

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Glossolalia by Erkki Veltheim

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