"Crossing the equator implies a change of rotation described by the Coriolis effect. In the upside-down world everything is inverted but masked by gravity.  There too, there are imposed and plutocratic rules. But there are a few singular people who swim upstream, avoiding the turns or simply strangling them; they know how to swim much faster, surrounded by the ocean. And they know how to break the rules."

David Chesworth (@david-chesworth) is known for his distinctive and diverse explorations of high and low brow themes via synth wave, electronics, ensemble music, experimental opera, installations, video artworks. Performances at BAM Next Wave, Bang on a Can Marathon, Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, Sydney Biennale. Co-founder of post-punk group Essendon Airport. Early solo albums recorded for Innocent Records in late 70s early 80s.

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HOCast #64 - David Chesworth

I constructed this weeks episode during the third week of a stay-at-home, shelter-in-place COVID-19 lockdown on gadigal land, in sydney australia where I live, make and work. 

Without access to my studio and the majority of my archived sound library, I’ve structured this episode from field recordings I have on a home iMac, recordings made at the rural artist-in-residence facility at Bundanon on the central south coast of New South Wales. 

The spine of the piece, a loud fluttering, is a time-stretched recording of hundreds of flies and other insects swarming on a recently dead wombat. Out bushwalking in pathless forest, I heard the loud sonic epicentre of insects advantaging the carcass long before I could see it. 

I set up my recorder to capture a 20 minute document of the event. That recording has been slowed to 10 times the original length, to make strange and hear anew that encounter. Low musical and wailing sounds are slowed forest birds, a crystalline drone slowed cicadas and wind.

This bed track is interwoven with recordings of my walking through different environments at Bundanon - domestic, rural agricultural and remnant bushland - and of fire, water, wind and small sonic events made with found objects. 

The intention is to create a strangely evocative soundscape, something to listen to and wonder about while drawing, napping or in other ways spending time in lockdown… 

You can find out more about the podcast in the episode guide at sonicsketchbooks.net

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