Turrell (2021)

Hoovering The Beach

This is the time-stretched version of a short improvisation on flute through an EHX Stereo Memory Man delay pedal. The repeating bass sound is actually short vocal sounds in the ground loop. The whole thing has been stretched by a factor of ten, which seems to change it to more of a choral sound, with thousands of voices. I had no idea that would happen, so to say that I was blown away on first listening back would be quite an understatement.

And All That There Is Within

More dipsy-doodling here - a bit like a cat caught on a high-speed fan blade.

Magic

In late August 2015, I drove north then east from Toronto. Matt Rogalsky had invited me to visit a small church on Wolfe Island, traditional land of Tyendinaga Mohawk, to record the continuum of voice and cello improvisations I had been circling around. It was a 3 hour drive to Wolfe with a 4 hour detour north, as my young daughter asked me to bring her along. After a brief star gazing moment in the woods, we said goodbye to my daughter’s father, then veered south east in the dark. Arriving in Kingston at dawn we slept for one hour in an old house on the shore of Lake Ontario. Then we took a short ferry ride across to Wolfe Island. Matt set up loudspeakers and microphones in the small sunlit church. It was hot. My daughter read comics lying down in the backseat of the car, parked in the shade. Various tradesmen would come and go with paint and ladders. Matt placed two mics outside the church in the garden. Cicadas and birds came into the soundfield as I improvised by heart, parallel streams of voice and cello.

Composed and improvised solo cello and voice Anne Bourne 
Recorded, mixed and mastered Matt Rogalsky / Memory Device. 

This is one track from a full album of improvisations recorded on Wolfe Island, performed within the acoustics of various spaces and instruments that is yet to be released .

DONATIONS designated to the restoration of my cello

'I Am'

Dawn the White Wake is a piece written in 1976 for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and cello. It was widely performed by the wonderful soloists of the Ensemble Polychromie, directed by the vibrant conductor, Nvart Andreassian, and this recording is from 1984, performed in a large exhibition space somewhere in Europe!
The piece is an invocation to music, and is in 4 joined up sections: The Calling, The Preparation, The Awakening, The Memory.

Dawn The White Wake

Just reallised that I should mention what this site is about. The reason for calling it radionoise is that all of the pieces here were created either using radios, or on a radio programme. In the former case, the sounds are either emanations from other electrical equipment, or created by the interference of two closely tuned radios in close proximity. Unless otherwise specified, no processing was performed on the received signal.
Something I was happy to notice recently is that all of my tracks are specified as 00.0 BPM. YES!!
