UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape

Submission by John G Boehme: 

"This Sound work M.O.U is from Memoranda of Understanding, A
body of trans-disciplinary artworks. Memoranda of Understanding is a series of task-focused actions that attend to “understanding". This sound work is mixed from recordings at Ladies night at Caswell's firing range in Phoenix Arizona."

Artist Statement/Bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: It starts with a muffled voice talking, a drum beat comes in, crashing sounds and voices talking are over top, the drums end and a voice comes in “apparently a 9 millimetre” “you can’t get the bullet in that way” *gunshots repeating*, a short melody (sounds like synth) starts on repeat alongside the bullets. A beat is introduced quietly in the background, sounds like a bass guitar, the gunfire intensifies. The melody returns, and is added to the gunfire and bass, coming in and out. The bass intensifies with gunfire. Dialogue comes in, a person describing how to use a gun: “Here’s what you wanna do, you know there are relaxation points, position the weapon here, you gotta pull it, you gotta relax.” The bass continued very quickly in the background, gunfire continued and dialogue comes in and out and tapers off. The beat fazes out and what is left is sounds of gunfire.

M.O.U BREAK by John G Boehme

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape 

Submission by Julian Fisher: 

"The Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna), a brilliant and tiny green and pink bird, is a consistent feature of the soundscape of the Songhees Walkway where I often end up most days—for a walk to take a break from work, as a place to sit and watch the sunset, or as somewhere to go and listen to the waves after the city has gone to sleep. One day in December of 2021 I made a recording of these magnificent birds performing their ritual flight display in which one of them soars high up into the sky and then descends like a jet plane with extraordinary speed towards the Earth."

Artist Statement/Bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: Ambient noise, the sound of rushing water begins and both continue throughout. A beating sound comes in and out, clanging metal begins and tapers off. Bird sounds come and go. A melody begins, sounds like guitar and ambient accompaniment. The odd voice is heard, conversation fading in and out. You can hear a person running by. The guitar melody begins again and continues until the end fades out.

Cold Moon Sound Walk by Julian Fisher

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape

Submission by Kevin Lee Burton.

Artist Statement/Bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: Rustling sounds, a deep low vibrating drone on loop is introduced. A voice begins talking, the sound is distorted, saying “how are you” repeatedly. Then “how” and “how are you” continue to be looped. The rustling intensifies and quietens, intensifies again then abruptly ends.

4 Sacred Spring by Kevin Lee Burton

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape 

Submission by Kevin Lee Burton

Artist statement/bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: The sounds of rustling. A deep low vibrating drone on loop begins in the background. A bass drum beat is added alongside a distorted voice. The rustling continues, sounds like sticks, bones. This is repeated throughout, the voice tapers off first, then the beat, and the end is back to rustling.

Bones Beat by Kevin Lee Burton

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape 

Submission by Mark Nazemi: 

"My work is constantly evolving to understand the nuanced relationship between the physical properties of sound, acoustic communication, and its impact on our well-being. There is an intentional process involved in the way I capture and manipulate sounds evoking memories or simply placing the listener in a relaxing state." 

Artist statement/bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: The sound of rain falling heavily. The sound intensifies over time. Inaudible voices heard in the background around 4:30 minutes in. 7 minutes in the intensity lessens. Around minute 10 to minute 12 you can hear the voices of children playing in the background.

Transitions by Mark Nazemi

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape

Submission by Mike Andrew McLean:

"On Sunday, April 30th, 2019, I, along with 6837 others participated in the TC 10K.  Unlike most of the other participants, I wore a binaural audio recorder and documented the effort.  This is a vignette of that recording."

Artist statement/bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description: The audio of the artist's journey running the TC10k. Starts off with a  voice cheering people on who are starting the run. Lots of cheering in the background. The sound of movement/wind begins. At times music comes in, likely being played from other runners. As well as live drumming, sounds of cheering and clapping, and then moments of just the sound of movement/breathing/wind. The cheering and clapping intensifies near the end, and we begin to hear an announcer reading out the names of various runners crossing the finish line and their timestamps.

Tc 10k 2019 by Mike Andrew McLean

UNTIL Magazine Issue 12: Mixtape Soundscape

Submission by Roy Green.

"Conference of the Birds derives its title from a Persian poem by 12th century  Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. In this allegorical poem  the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their sovereign, as they have none.The birds traverse seven valleys in their search for enlightenment and freedom. My audio works is comprised of various local bird calls that have been  sampled and manipulated using the Sony ACID digital programme. "

Artist statement/bio in UNTIL Magazine.

Audio Description:  Various bird calls/sounds begin the video. Instruments are brought in as accompaniment. Sounds like synthesizers/stringed instruments. The bird calls come in and out as well as a looped beat/instruments.

Conference of the Birds by Roy Green

frozen cradle: a performance poem  
>...soft paced, moving out from the dark  
you were the first / birth-cry > arms lift above, bearing weight  i was the last > fingers finds a sway without tension a birth-cry like razor burning / your eyes closed > tension returns, belly held  tears shed / womb stretched / loose > body bends in strength  without a father > strength slapped down, bitter >...time stretches open to body meeting ground 
father? / you did not wrap baby in blue sky, your heart did not swell, nor did your palms sweat.  
IMAGINE: an ancient hospital a cave walls with giants ground breathing birth-cry cracks with fire / rattles with pain / birth-cry bleeds paint for the Moon  whirling sounds and golden beads and bodies of melodies on repeat 
voices remembering and reenacting the past / lungs exalt, rise... 
mother? / many curse your name, say > “wit you an ya crazy crass an flesh hans dat heel” the word speake’th through you, you say > “da lawd is mi witness”  
 say > “deliva us fram eval” 
 say > “i shall naught be mooved” 
they did not consider you / one of them / a lone lioness challenging the pride / so they threw you out  it must have been the way you grew too grown / too fast / too solid, to hit but you are not so different / from them you’d hate to hear > dragging their shadows/  
> across the room 
do you remember? > a faint whisper whispers do you remember? > an eyelid pulled down /  strong women from the hills / ritual histories walking > revealing wide lines of strain the land / sweat misting to moisten hard earth  
secret burials in red / sand, sediment / beginning / cradling and chewing the bones.  
mother? mother! mooooottthhheeeeeerrrrr / with you and your ancestral strains  this vengeance a strength this soul a music: haallelujahhaaalleluuujaaahhallelujahhallelujahhallelujah! 
the baby sees a candle burning, mother is up/ all night knelling  reciting, tongue twisting / verses and letters and songs and poems / that have never been written.

Frozen Cradle

Ashley de Kroon's slam poem Thoughts of a Used to Be is apart of the Victoria Arts Council Levelling Up, Breaking Down International Women's Day 2023 Exhibition. On from 4 - 31 March 2023.

Frozen Cradle

Victoria Arts Council

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