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Postcard Audio #009 – Downtown Music Shop
February 27, 2011 by textile
A market music shop in downtown Shanghai selling tables of cheap electric keyboards, fiddles, Dizi flutes, drums and Erhus covered in snakeskin. Shoppers test the instruments with different levels of skill and enthusiasm. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in December 2002.
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #008 – Toys at the Market
February 12, 2011 by textile
Yuyuan Market, Shanghai: in the Old City a market is built around a 16th Century gardens and temple. Tourist stores are filled with lanterns, musical instruments, faux treasures and toys… Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in December 2002.
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #007 – Opera in the Mall
January 28, 2011 by textile
Nanjing Road, Shanghai: People, department stores, lights, traffic. Cutting through and beyond, a soprano’s trill, amplified. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured sometime in November 2002.
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #006 – Crickets in Cages
January 25, 2011 by textile
Shanghai city centre. Men are gathered with songbirds and tiny cages of crickets. Walking through conversations and urban rumble, the crickets’ chirrups and drones resonate…. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. Captured in the same location of Postcard Audio #005 sometime in November 2002.
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #005 – Songbirds in Shanghai
January 25, 2011 by textile
A small park in the centre of Shanghai city. Cars, people and industry surround. Gathered are men, mostly older but some young with intricate cages housing birds in song. Their tunes compete with the song of the city. Sometime in November 2002. Recorded on a Sony MZ-R900 minidisc with a Rode NT3 condenser microphone. ************************ A article [...]
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #004 – Gust Through the Opera House Door
March 19, 2010 by textile
Inside the Sydney Opera House wander groups of women in corsets, bustles and Doc Martins. Their companions are men, styled punk and goth, industrial and indie. It’s quiet. We are all waiting. Amanda Fucking Palmer’s concert is about to begin. But on the steps, a door on the edge of Bennelong Point lets the wind [...]
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #003 – A Flock of Black Cockatoos Roosting…
March 13, 2010 by textile
Returning from a grueling 20km ride along Narrow Neck in the Blue Mountains National Park we are stopped. A flock of Black Cockatoos circle then perch in a tree overhead, chattering as the sun sets over the mountain… Recorded on August 23rd 2009 using a Zoom H4.
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #002 – Spring at Narrow Neck…
August 23, 2009 by textile
Narrow Neck: an isthmus dividing the Megalong and Jamison valleys in the middle of the Blue Mountains National Park. Along the isthmus runs a rough gravel, sand and rock strewn path stretching 10 km through hanging swamp, dense bush, and then… almost nothing at all. At points, the track drops off and sheet cliff faces [...]
Continue Reading →Postcard Audio #001 – An Opera Begins…
July 18, 2009 by textile
The Independent Theatre at North Sydney. The audience is seated and the orchestra is tuning, then onto the stage walks Pan… In 2008 Pacific Opera Company asked me to make an archival recording of their Gods & Sinners double bill. This recording is a short excerpt from the beginning of the program. With thanks to [...]
Continue Reading →Prologue to a podcast
July 18, 2009 by textile
When I was 21 I went backpacking around the world, and rather than taking a camera I took a sound recorder to document the environments I was wandering. I captured some amazing sound worlds, including talking birds in a Shanghai bird market, a pro-hunting rally along the River Thames in London and an eagle calling on [...]
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