Mungo

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2017-01-22

Label: Splitrec

Recorded by Splinter at Lake Mungo National Park 1-3 March 2016.
For 15 years Splinter have been testing
experiments in improvised orchestral music.

Over the last two years, we’ve honed specific strategies involving motion
that manifest differently wherever and whenever they are played out.

In early March 2016 we took these procedures to the dry lakebed
at Mungo National Park, far west NSW.

CD1 Sunrise
With birds and insects greeting the day
amidst a ruined Zanci,
we move around 2 fixed stereo mics
in specified modes –
Air Hockey and Wheel.
CD2 Sunset
In the Woolshed,
(a massive wooden structure from 1869)
we play Microphony:
two microphonists, each with his/her own stereo mic
weave through and around the space/band.
At anytime they can handover to a fresh microphonist.
CD3 Midnight
After stargazing the desert sky
we record at the dirt airstrip
each of us relate to a pulsing bike light
in the profound dark.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council for the Arts, it’s arts funding and advisory body.
Thanks to the Adelaide Festival, Ilan Volkov and staff at Lake Mungo National Park.

Splinter would like to respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of Mungo,
the Barkinji, the Mutthi Mutthi and Ngyiampaa peoples.