"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.

https://davidchesworth.bandcamp.com/

HOCast #64 - David Chesworth

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This episode is a composition titled ‘I couldn’t find any trees…’

As is often the case, I sat down at my iMac to build it from recordings I’ve made since release of the previous episode. Yesterday, I walked to a relatively remote ocean beach south of Sydney with my partner, one of my sisters, her husband and their two adult daughters, celebrating one of their birthdays.

As people have always done on shell grit beaches, we chatted and combed through the crunchy underfoot fragments in search of tiny treasures of form, texture, pattern and colour. 

One of my nieces focused on collecting from the millions of tide-tumbled shards a handful of sea urchin spines, all a deep maroon-violet-blue. As her gather developed, she commented on the beautiful micro-acoustic glass-like sounds the tiny rods made as they knocked against each other in her palm. 

So, I recorded that tiny sound and use it here as the field for the following sonic sketch - it’s the tumbling tinkling tones randomly rolling under the first ten minutes.  

Other sounds encountered in this meander from forest to street via beach, classrooms and non-existent virtual spaces are:

water dripping in a sandstone cave in a recently flooded forest, 

a student drawing with contact mic attached to a pen and the signal diverted through a delay pedal,

a small rubber ball being rolled around inside an old square biscuit tin,

the rhythm of an ad hoc drawing machine in one of my experimental drawing classes,

some noodlings with miniature keyboardless synthesisers,

and, from the weekday streets of Redfern on Gadigal country, labourers taking down scaffolding 15-storeys up one of the many residential tower blocks being built like so many artificial cliffs and mountains on this age old hill top.

68 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - I couldn't find any trees

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