 A young girl
barefoot white vintage dress blowing bubbles to the blue-lit mists is a stranger without name, revealed from another realm in disguise as an actress poised harmless insidious luring; waits outside the window Samples: Al Thumm drums, Glen Hadden acoustic guitar, Rachel Johnston cello, Melanie Walters flute Created in Goodwood, South Australia Software: Synchronise About: During this time I was doing live sound for a play called "The Visitors". My role was to sit backstage and process the sounds of the live cellists into an atmospheric wash and whorl of dementia. Pizzicato ostinati like crooked clockwork, and echoing screeches of demented sul ponticello. The play was about this girl (pictured above) who gradually starts appearing to a man (though no one else sees her), as he loses his mind to dementia. The girl mocks his fading grip on (his) reality, but yet lovingly and tenderly lures and welcomes him into her world. This was the first time I'd worked in theatre, and there was something mesmerizing about the fact this play was about dementia, and that I was sitting backstage where I couldn't see the actors, and listening to these disembodied voices, night after night. The same lines delivered over and over again into the darkness.  Samples: Glen Hadden electric guitar, Dan Thorpe piano, Rachel Johnston cello, Melanie Walters flute, Al Thumm synths, Christopher Roberts qin
Created in Prospect, South Australia Software: Fields  Illustration by Jelena Vujnovic Samples: Glen Hadden acoustic guitar, Dan Thorpe saxophone, Rachel Johnston cello, Iran Sanadzadeh circuits, Sebastian Phlox pipe organ, Al Thumm granular soundscape
Created in Prospect, South Australia Software: Fields  Samples: Melanie Walters flute, Dan Thorpe piano/saxophone, Rachel Johnston cello, Ruby Michael spoken word Created in Maslins Beach, South Australia Software: Fields About: After the second night of drinking the wine called Pure Vision, I woke early and came to this view of the beach to make this piece. I felt the atmosphere really come through the sounds, maybe for the first time. This seemed like what I'd expected In Sound Surrounds to be - the environment I was in genuinely infusing into the music. The vanilla colours of the morning turning gold appeared in the sounds. The distant whistle was somehow true of that place. But on listening back, the music itself was so whimsical and repetitive. It was like I was a child just given my first set of crayons, and just realizing I could draw what I see. This piece was repetitive beyond all reasonable limits. I considered the Cagean axiom of repeating something until it becomes interesting again, but it didn't seem authentic in this case. I considered not including it here at all, but I had a strong intuition instead to break my rule, and change the piece in post-production. So I edited much of it out, and added Ruby's spoken word piece. So this is the first piece that is not strictly an improvisation in the same sense as the others, but at any rate, in the world of sampling the question of origination in improvisation tends to eat its own tail. It only struck me after I'd added the spoken word, that I'd met Ruby a week earlier at a sunrise ceremony (which her poem is about) and I had named this piece The Second Flight of the Sunrise Flock before I'd even considered putting the poetry in. Even more amazingly, the day before I'd made this piece, I opened a book of Rumi's poetry randomly to a page entitled 'The Sunrise Ruby'. For those curious and patient, below is the original piece: Second Flight of the Sunrise Flock (Original)
 Samples: Melanie Walters flute, Christopher Roberts qin, Al Thumm synths, SuperCollider, Glen Hadden electric/acoustic guitar, Dan Thorpe saxophone, Rachel Johnston cello
Created in Prospect, South Australia Software: Synchronise  Samples: Rachel Johnston cello, Christopher Roberts qin, Al Thumm rain on a metal bowl, Glen Hadden electric guitar Created in Prospect, Adelaide Software: Fields Big Eye Long Neck (Where the Mana Things Are - Slight Return)
 Samples: Rachel Johnston cello, Christopher Roberts qin
Created in Melbourne Airport Software: Fields  Samples: Dan Thorpe piano/saxophone, Glen Hadden classical guitar, Rachel Johnston cello, Al Thumm field recordings
Created in Warrandyte, Victoria Software: Fields  Samples: Melanie Walters flute, Glen Hadden classical guitar/electric guitar, Al Thumm cable crackle/synth, Dan Thorpe saxophone/piano, Sebastian Phlox organ
Created in Warrandyte, Victoria Software: Fields  Samples: Dan Thorpe saxophone/piano, Melanie Walters flute, Glen Hadden electric guitar, Al Thumm synth/cable crackle, Rachel Johnston cello Created in Prospect, South Australia Software: Fields Charisma of Eternal Refraction (Slight Return)
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