File under: Free Improvisation Acoustic Contemporary

The Splinter Orchestra
Featuring: Magda Mayas

Name: The Splinter Orchestra – Mungo (3CD)
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SKU: 27
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Mungo (3CD)

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Tip! This fourth release by Great Waitress titled back, before was recorded before the pandemic and lockdowns in 2018, and has taken four years to get to production. A live set was beautifully recorded by Peter Farrar at the Annandale Creative Arts Centre in Sydney and mixed and mastered by Joe Talia.

In the elegant liner notes, Chris Abrahams writes of Great Waitress transcending “ ...the individual contributions of Mayas, Altman and Brooks. It's an identity made from a multi-dimensional counterpoint – timbral, rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, emotional … - that results in an ever-evolving gestalt.” He finishes with: “External sound phenomena are subsumed by a music that welcomes any wayward noise, clothing it instantly in its mystery and beauty.” Great Waitress unfold soundscapes, and beyond their horizons there is nothing to be heard but other soundscapes, and still other horizons. But if we take our listening the other way — forensically attending to the minutiae — there is nothing inside the sounds but other smaller sounds. They do this inward/outward listening within each of their four amazing releases and they also do it across these releases.

This listening is achieved because we never arrive at cliché, genre, or the entirely known or predictable — Great Waitress keep you suspended on a cusp between knowability and novelty. They have unfolded a body of work, of which back, before is the latest stunning example, that speaks of a brilliant, patient, humble collectivity — one of the most important improvising ensembles of the last decade. We invite you to discover Great Waitress's world.

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File under: Free Improvisation Acoustic Contemporary

Cat. number: 27

Year: 2017

Format

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.

Release notes

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…

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