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release date: 16 March 2021
listen on soundcloud<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sound art installation: soundtracker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program explores one of my installation works titled ‘soundtracker’. A multi-source, multi-speaker listening environment, adaptable for different spaces, soundtracker presents fifteen hours of audio excerpts from field recordings I\u2019ve made over 40 years. Each excerpt is about 6 minutes long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

soundtracker is presented in a very dark room, illuminated only by diffuse natural light entering through a circle of white Japanese shoji paper that transmutes the crisp distraction of external views into diffuse luminous presence and shadow-play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the darkness, five identical sculptural forms sit on the floor, in a circle surrounding a custom-built 5-sided bench seat. Playback devices and speakers hidden within the cryptic shapes endlessly shuffle-play over 150 tracks to create an ever-changing sonic-poetic atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation environment alludes to the calming shadow-cloaked spaces within traditional Japanese architecture so well described by Jun\u2019ichiro Tanazaki in his 1933 essay \u2018In Praise of Shadows\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors enter the space from the brighter outside world and find their way to the bench, to sit and listen in the subdued light for as long as the unpredictably variable surround-sound mix holds their interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

soundtracker provides a penumbral space for reflective quietude in an evocative liminal emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locus A<\/p>\n\n\n\n


0:00-4:30 Bundanon evening 29Oct13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:30-9:30 Kinetic installation of 150+ hand-worked drink cans 01Mar15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30-16:20 Origma Reserve (OR) 29Oct2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:50-18:45 Under northern pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge 11Aug13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:45-25:00 Pond, Adelaide Botanic Gardens 22Oct13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25:00-27:40 Raindrops falling from trees onto overturned metal bowls<\/p>\n\n\n\n

27:40-31:35 Local rail, Hakone, Japan Sep1988 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

31:35-34:20 Black cockatoos, OR 06Sep16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locus B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:00-3:35 Time-stretch, rain drops in downpipe 06Jan2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:35-6:00 Water in gutters, Honen-in temple, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6:10-11:05 3-pendulum harmonograph 15Feb2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:10-14:45 OR 09Dec2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:55-21:00 Evening camp near Tennant Creek, Northern Territory with Warumungu families and cultural workers developing Nyinkka Nyunyu Culture Center 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21:00-26:20 Hillside washaway, OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26:20-31:20 Wooden door, Bundanon residency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31:25-35:30 aleatoric ensemble unit<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locus C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:00-4:50 School group in garden, Ginkaku-ji temple, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:50-9:45 Diamond dove & fly swarm, OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:50-13:50 Time-stretch, striking bamboo Adelaide Botanic Gardens 19Oct13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:50-17:10 Male superb lyrebird, raindrops falling from trees 03Apr15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:10-20:35 Time-stretch, contact mic, pen plotter, Monash University 12Dec12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:35-22:35 Council street-washing vehicle, Redfern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22:35-29:40 Time-stretch, below decks, overnight on research vessel, Shark Bay, Western Australia 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29:40-33:55 Local train to Uji, south-east of Kyoto 03Nov14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locus D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:00-2:00 Temple bell, wind in trees, Shoren-in, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:00-5:00 Kinetic installation walkthrough 01Mar15<\/p>\n\n\n\n

04:50-09:00 Gyuto Monks of Tibet, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney 21Apr16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:05-10:50 3-pendulum harmonograph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:50-18:00 Water over stones in gutter, Jakko-in temple, Ohara, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:05-19:35 Stingless native bee hive, OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:35-25:30 Pilgrims & monk chanting heart sutra, Mimuroto-ji, Kyoto <\/p>\n\n\n\n

25:30-26:40 Gang-gang cockatoos, OR 10Dec2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26:40-32:20 Night, OR 08Feb2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

32:20-33:25 Wharf, Man O’War steps, Sydney Opera House, night 29Aug12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locus E<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:00-0:45 Tourists, Bondi Beach, Sydney 29Aug12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0:45-5:50 Frogs in dam, night, Dungog, New South Wales 03Oct16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5:50-11:50 Demolition work, Hobart wharves, Tasmania 24Nov14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:50-19:50 Cicadas, Kyoto Botanic Gardens<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:00-20:15 Wonga pigeon flies away, Origma Reserve, Sydney<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20:20-25:30 Evening thunderstorm, OR 05Mar14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25:30-30:15 Raindrops falling onto metal dishes, ground, and deck, OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30:15-32:45 Time-stretch, rainwater dripping into cave pool, OR 18Jun13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

32:20-35:30 Night, black field crickets, OR 16Mar14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OR = Origma Reserve, an off-grid bush retreat north-west of Sydney, NSW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

release date: 16 March 2021listen on soundcloud sound art installation: soundtracker This program explores one of my installation works titled ‘soundtracker’. A multi-source, multi-speaker listening environment, adaptable for different spaces, soundtracker presents fifteen hours of audio excerpts from field recordings I\u2019ve made over 40 years. Each excerpt is about 6 minutes long. soundtracker is presented… Continue reading 11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonicsketchbooks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}