38 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS Composition

This weeks composition is another generative foray into the archive, built from a selection of my field and studio recordings. The field recordings include water dripping from the gutters of a remote farmhouse outbuilding after a passing storm at 3am; heavy rain drumming the metal skin of my car, pulled up on a bush track; hydrophone recordings of a hill creek rushing with stormwater; and the conversations and song of dozens of birds on bidjigal country, just north-west of sydney, on a warm afternoon, the native avian music thats been sounded there for thousands of millenia, long before any human presence - and which, almost miraculously, can still be experienced there today. The studio recordings are of ad-hoc sonic-kinetic assemblages of tins, bottles, and boxes with seeds, balls and objects inside, all tied together with rubberbands and fixed to modified turntables - my aleatoric ensembles. And a couple of outputs from various of my small electronic generators… These diverse sources have been shaped into a slowly evolving exploration of sonic atmospheres and suggestion, wandering the spaces of imaginative provocation that connect writer to reader, artist to spectator, composer to listener… You can explore the podcast series in the episode guide at sonicsketchbooks.net