Guitarra eléctrica y Efectos: Ernesto Molestina
Percusión: fab
Grabación: Molestein studio
Mezcla y Edición: fab
Producido por: fab

La grulla blanca

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Our Duty to Care is a cross-disciplinary music composition based on the legal case Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560, where eight Australian teenagers (namely Anjali Sharma and Isolde Raj-Seppings, Ambrose Hayes, Tomas Arbizu, Bella Burgemeister, Laura Kirwan, Ava Princi & Luca Saunders) represented by an octogenarian nun (Sister Marie Brigid Arthur) as their litigation guardian, sued the Minister for the Environment (Cth) and Vickery Coal Pty Ltd.
They successfully argued that the Minister owed them and other Australian children a duty of care, which was supposedly breached when the Minister approved the extraction of coal from a coal mine.

Whilst this decision was later successfully appealed by the Minister, this case monumentally established that climate change is legally real – with all submitted scientific evidence un-refuted. This denotes a significant shift, as we are no longer fighting to prove our climate crisis, but rather urging all to fight the crisis itself.

This work sets newly commissioned text by poet, close friend & regular collaborator Savanna Wegman, who has re-interpreted my own legal research about the case into a 3-part poem, which has in turn structured the song cycle. It embodies climate anxiety, the nervous excitement of the trial and its success, and the melancholic yet hopeful transference of ideology: how far we’ve come & how far we still have left to go.
Composed as part of and made possible by a 2022/23 University of Melbourne Wattle Fellowship.

Timing: ~ 18 minutes 
1: Robed in Apocalypse (~6min)
2: they will rise, as birds fall (~5min)
3: The Changing Wilds (~7min)

Written for Bridgette Kelsey and Solstice Trio. Dedicated to all current and future generations of Australians who inherit a climate crisis. 

Bridgette Kelsey, soprano
SOLSTICE
Isabel Hede, violin (guest)
Stephanie Arnold, cello 
Georgina Lewis, piano

Commissioned Cover Art Illustration © by Lucinda McIntyre.

Commissioned Sext Text: ‘Prophecy, as a fire comes’ by Savanna Wegman © 2022 
Text used for 1: Robed in Apocalypse:
No more prophecy 
until the sky begets a softer 
Everlasting sun 
or
the youth unravel 
braided darkness
rushing innocence
all over Earth 

Shadows designed 
for our tired birth places
ghosting the new life 
upon babbling breaths  
 
And so the young are born 
New guardians 
Robed in 
Apocalypse

Text used for 2: they will rise, as birds fall:
Know they will rise
As disappearance is written  
on ancient weather 
become beast
She watches above 
as birds fall 
out of the mother sky 

March into the high courts 
of creators and destroyers
Anjali Sharma and the army 
                  Future keepers
Enter this laced arena 
burning horizons in their bellies 

The Minister surveys the gravity
how deep we may breathe
how quickly we will fall
when the Earth veins split 
and the sanctuary howls 
at its open flesh  

The weather sounds like a whisper 
in these walls that stand for justice 
Lay down a pocketful 
of bird bones
of poison oceans

Text used for 3: The Changing Wilds
They speak for the
forgotten
Their ancestral home-body
Their drowning, burning worlds
for their lands that have lost hope 
together their voices are louder
Becoming suns
Becoming rains 
Becoming rivers multiplied 
Becoming the skyward call 
of protection 

this call
Is honoured
the duty of care rewritten
A first for acknowledging
the changing wilds

Evidence now held
in palms that believe in
collapse
and might begin to
listen
Blessing the horror 
with a soft breath of courage 

Remember how
young sacred tears 
are greeting Earth 
like miracle seeds

Our Duty to Care (LIVE)(song cycle for soprano & piano trio)(2023)(Bridgette Kelsey & Solstice Trio)

On My Way To Prog

A track for the Naviar Haiku Challenge #499.   A hybrid track using Vult's Caudal as a sequencer driving a mixture of Bogaudio and Surge VCOs with some distortion from Saphire Elastica and Free Surface's Watertable. All running in Logic Pro which adds some binaural panning.   The haiku is by Hege A. J. Lepri (http://www.hegeajlepri.ca/) : 

> afternoon heat
> the heavenly dance of
> cumulus clouds

Picture by Stefan Lehner https://unsplash.com/photos/Wc3LVKY3s7Y

Afternoon Heat [naviarhaiku499]

Your destination may be lightyears ahead.  You will need too choose some kind of a craft.  You May need a new body nor you may decide to simply warp.  The craft could be your mind.  The abilities  could depend on your origins.

Chee's,
Counterworlds Voltage

Noise Grid Jumper

I try to balance melancholy while being uplifting.

Weekend in the wind

:::
my contribution
to
Naviar Records
Haiku Challenge 505

my interpretation of a
haiku
by
Mark Miller

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in search of a name 
the torrent of rainwater 
down the canyon wall

t o r r e n t* ::: naviar haiku 505

Photo: Seattle, 2018.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: NI Monark.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI, Karanyi Sounds and Spitfire Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Warmth Remembered

Vinyl Variation #17

This is an orchestral mockup (or remake) of the main title theme from the Amazon series The Rings of Power.

It is intended for entertainment purposes only.

The Rings of Power orchestral mockup

Highfyle

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