Jaara Jaara Seasons - Ros Bandt (2013)
Lunched in November 2013, Hearing Jaara Jaara is a digital acoustic sanctuary of Jaara Jaara box ironbark woodlands, North Central Victoria, Australia. Created by Sound Artist Ros Bandt with the kind permission of Uncle Brien Nelson, Jaara Jaara elder. Visit the official Hearing Jaara Jaara 2013 website here. This website is a digital sanctuary for listening to country in a box ironbark forest in Central Victoria Australia over the course of a year, 2013. Listening observations are recorded and shared globally here. This habitat is at once a sound lab and poetic inspiration for soundscape composition and public performance. This Jaara Jaara place is 55 acres of land for wildlife country with a checkered history of pastoralism, gold, hobby farm and native bush. Over the past 20 years it has been land for wildlife and left to regenerate free of intrusion with the result of regeneration of the box ironbark habitat. It is a natural sound sanctuary.
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blue gold / rivers talk - ros bandt / leah barclay (2012)
BLUE GOLD, hugros /xeros, wet/dry
ros bandt 2005/2009
richard haynes: eflat & bass clarinets, louise king: cello
blue gold is an electroacoustic work for cello and clarinets, sculptures and digital colour field and moving imagery. It investigates the delicate balance between wet and dry, hugros, xeros, symbolised in the colours of the title BLUE GOLD. The performers, cello (wet) and the clarinets (dry), navigate their way through the electroacoustic sound fields sourced from the Southern Ocean underwater recordings, aeolian harps in the arid Mungo desert, flash storms in the bush and the wetlands of the Otway Ranges. A range of ecstatic dances composed in the Peloponnese, Greece, remind us that European settlement has reformed and changed the Australian landscape irrevocably. The performers respond to soundscape recordings, the imagery, the graphic and notated scores, to bring this alive in each place they perform, inside or outside, desert or flood. They pour earth and water into the glass timer sculptures or the large bamboo beam balance showing the changing balances between the water and the earth, and the role we are playing in its care and destruction. These resonate at the metaphorical levels of civilization/nature, and european/indigenous perspectives. Water, land care and global warming are surely the greatest challenges facing us and demand attentiveness. BLUE GOLD is a plea to become more mindful and not take so much.
BLUE GOLD was commissioned, premiered and toured by charisma, ros dunlop, clarinets and julia ryder, cello.
thanks to canadian activist maude barlow for her encouragement and permission to use the title inspired by her book blue gold: the fight to stop the corporate theft of the world’s water, 2003.
richard haynes clarinets www.richardehaynes.com | louise king cello www.cellodreaming.com.au
RIVERS TALK
leah barclay / ros bandt (2012)
RIVERS TALK is a new collaborative radiophonic work on Australian river ecology, a joint mix of river culture from the Murray River in Mildura, Victoria and the Noosa River in Queensland. RIVERS TALK dissolves the dense local sonic profiles from the artists' solo works Voicing the Murray (1996) and Confluence (2005) in a dynamic profile of continuing issues surrounding river care and the sensitive man/nature relationships. Through the radiophonic medium of collaborative electroacoustic sound, these issues can be heard through the authentic local voices and revisited not only in Australia but worldwide.
track listing
BLUE GOLD wet/dry ros bandt 2005/9
richard haynes: eflat & bass clarinets, louise king: cello
1. water :the blue gold
2. lake eyre: wind harps in the desert
3. elegy for eroded land after grazing
4. bush rain: call for water
5. ecstatic rain dance
6. plundering the rain forest
7. loggers and water barons
8. salination: cacti and prickly pear
9. from the irrigation channel
10. spirit level: water balance
RIVERS TALK leah barclay / ros bandt 2012
11. murray voices
12. noosa voices
13. hearing the understory
14. waterborne unease
ros bandt 2005/2009
richard haynes: eflat & bass clarinets, louise king: cello
blue gold is an electroacoustic work for cello and clarinets, sculptures and digital colour field and moving imagery. It investigates the delicate balance between wet and dry, hugros, xeros, symbolised in the colours of the title BLUE GOLD. The performers, cello (wet) and the clarinets (dry), navigate their way through the electroacoustic sound fields sourced from the Southern Ocean underwater recordings, aeolian harps in the arid Mungo desert, flash storms in the bush and the wetlands of the Otway Ranges. A range of ecstatic dances composed in the Peloponnese, Greece, remind us that European settlement has reformed and changed the Australian landscape irrevocably. The performers respond to soundscape recordings, the imagery, the graphic and notated scores, to bring this alive in each place they perform, inside or outside, desert or flood. They pour earth and water into the glass timer sculptures or the large bamboo beam balance showing the changing balances between the water and the earth, and the role we are playing in its care and destruction. These resonate at the metaphorical levels of civilization/nature, and european/indigenous perspectives. Water, land care and global warming are surely the greatest challenges facing us and demand attentiveness. BLUE GOLD is a plea to become more mindful and not take so much.
BLUE GOLD was commissioned, premiered and toured by charisma, ros dunlop, clarinets and julia ryder, cello.
thanks to canadian activist maude barlow for her encouragement and permission to use the title inspired by her book blue gold: the fight to stop the corporate theft of the world’s water, 2003.
richard haynes clarinets www.richardehaynes.com | louise king cello www.cellodreaming.com.au
RIVERS TALK
leah barclay / ros bandt (2012)
RIVERS TALK is a new collaborative radiophonic work on Australian river ecology, a joint mix of river culture from the Murray River in Mildura, Victoria and the Noosa River in Queensland. RIVERS TALK dissolves the dense local sonic profiles from the artists' solo works Voicing the Murray (1996) and Confluence (2005) in a dynamic profile of continuing issues surrounding river care and the sensitive man/nature relationships. Through the radiophonic medium of collaborative electroacoustic sound, these issues can be heard through the authentic local voices and revisited not only in Australia but worldwide.
track listing
BLUE GOLD wet/dry ros bandt 2005/9
richard haynes: eflat & bass clarinets, louise king: cello
1. water :the blue gold
2. lake eyre: wind harps in the desert
3. elegy for eroded land after grazing
4. bush rain: call for water
5. ecstatic rain dance
6. plundering the rain forest
7. loggers and water barons
8. salination: cacti and prickly pear
9. from the irrigation channel
10. spirit level: water balance
RIVERS TALK leah barclay / ros bandt 2012
11. murray voices
12. noosa voices
13. hearing the understory
14. waterborne unease
Buy Blue Gold
Blue Gold and Rivers Talk by Ros Bandt and Leah Barclay have been released as a limited edition CD by hearing places. The CD is printed on recycled environmental friendly materials. Purchasing this CD contributes to the future development of hearing places.
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