Artist : Robert Curgenven with Chris Howden
Title : Alice Springs, Central Australia
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2007
Date : 03/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Recorded Fields
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 42:33 min
Size : 64,6 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Dusk Til Dawn 06:00
02.Through The Gap 13:52
03.Memory Of Home 10:46
04.Grassland 07:00
05.Larapinta Drive 04:55
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42:33 min
Recorded Fields is proud to announce its
first release and the first volume in
the Sound Atlas Series. The project's
recording stage began in Alice Springs
in Australia's Northern Territory
following an invitation to Curgenven and
Howden to realise a project for
"Shifting Ground/Art Land Culture", a
series of events running 3-18 May, 2007
designed to produce engagement with the
arid landscapes of Central Australia.
Alice Springs has a population of 28,000
and is a remote yet urban town flanked
by mountain ranges, situated 1500
kilometres from the nearest coast. The
sound atlas was realised through the
collection of field recordings and data
over eight days in twenty-two locations
in Alice Springs and the surrounding
MacDonnell Ranges. Their project sought
to survey the range of geographic,
social and acoustic environments in a
place characterised by an unusual mix of
adajcent and encroaching urban and
desert areas.
Through the creative partnership of
sound artist (Robert Curgenven) and
statistician/ecologist (Chris Howden),
additional data collected with the
recordings was used to form a relational
field/matrix in an effort to draw out
latent connections between
places/environments and their second
order manifestations.
Variables include: landform, dominant
sound of the site (nominal); sound
density of the recording, openness of
the site with respect to infrastructure
and landform (ordinal) These were
combined with weighted variables: GPS
(latitude, longitude and elevation);
time of day of recording. Relations were
determined between the sites/recordings
for a layered sequence in a four channel
performance or installation. The CD,
RF001, is five tracks in an adaptation
of this installation/performance. The
recordings are unprocessed and taken
directly from DAT. This application of a
statistical analysis with the field
recordings seeks primarily to explore
non-linear relations within land and
space as well as ontological and
sociological issues arising from these.
These issues are of particular interest
when juxtaposed with ancient indigenous
epistemologies concerning the land and
the recently developing urban
environment in this arid rangeland. Of
secondary interest is the impact on the
acoustic ecology of the region.
Mixed to by hand to DAT with 5 CD
players and 12 channel mixing desk in
Darwin (25 June û 13 July 2007) and
Alice Springs (20 July û 9 August 2007).
Mastered with Sumugan Sivanesan, Sydney,
10, 13, 14 August 2007.
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