Am I Still Alive?

Soulvacation

Finally returning to Italy (Sardinia to be precise) post Covid in a couple of months to go on residency. In anticipation of this adventure I will upload a few Italy based works from festivals etc that i have made over the last few years. This work  premiered as part of the 2021 Helicotrema festival. Official arty wanky explanation below:
'Whilst my yearly travel to Italy from my hometown of Hobart in Australia is halted due to the pandemic I have been increasingly aware of other more subtle forms of travel. In particular, how sound itself travels has become an important aspect of my research with more sound files being sent across the globe and conversations with other artists via zoom and mobile phone replacing the face to face communication I have been used to. 

Sound travels at 1225kms an hour but ever since radio broadcasting was developed we can hear things from anywhere in the world instantly. Sound can ,in a way ,also time-travel - I can play recordings from the past and re-live the experience of being there. 

With these ideas in mind I wrote (the work  using a live stream audio stream from Venice that was mixed with a live local recording 13.5 hours (the time the sound would have taken to travel to Hobart) after it was broadcast. This combined audio recording of Venice and Hobart formed the raw material which was manipulated and arranged to evoke some of the many sensations of physical travel - movement, wonder, fear, enchantment, loneliness and adventure. 

Unedited field recordings from my archives are introduced at the 4 minute mark - one of the Grande Canal sent to me in 2019 and one of the main highway in my hometown which I sent to a colleague in Italy in 2020. These recordings capture the main routes of travel in their respective cities and bridge the past with the present creating a sound collage that travels through time.

In keeping with the theme of how sound travels the entire piece was written and mixed in 13.5hours, echoing the time it would take for sound to travel between Hobart and Venice.'

Viaggio di andata

available on bandcamp:
https://30gradx.bandcamp.com/track/tokyo-tales
w/ IPG1: https://soundcloud.com/30gradx/with-ipg1-the-new-direction-now

Tokyo Tales

Hbd-Rina4faceMusik

On the Fender Jaguar (Rhythm & Bassline) / Composition: Surfers Like Us, @user-411502040

On Synthesizer / Mixing / Production: @remnant60

On Weissenborn / Harmonica: Yours truly.
 
Original: https://soundcloud.com/user-411502040/chasing-the-clouds-away
Twin 1: https://soundcloud.com/user-411502040/clouds
Twin 2: https://soundcloud.com/remnant60/clouds-wsurfers-like-us-and-nathaniel-ehrnman

From the album "Greener Pastures":
https://nathaniel-ehrnman.bandcamp.com/album/greener-pastures

Clouds (Jul. 2024)

Edge

Music, instruments, mixing, mastering, photo : Mekanik Mozz ' Art

E384

This album contains sixteen tracks each between three and six minutes in length with the exception of the last track which around seven minutes long. I used these songs in a mix to perform live during a yoga class and they could also be used for meditation, relaxation, working or studying.

Pay What You Want

A Night To Yourself (Ambient)

The generation ship is operational,
Vast inner spaces dedicated,
To collect, store, and recycle,
Its life's essence—here are the water tanks.

("space 20250504")

Am I Still Alive?

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