avian-garde music

 

this unfindable self-released cassette by the Australian field recording / sound artist / experimental musician Ron Nagorcka was actually reissued last year I recently noticed, with another similar nature sounds recording on the flip 

https://invisibilia.bandcamp.com/album/lovregana-music-from-a-tasmanian-forest-1990-soundscapes-from-wilderness-1988

release rationale:

Ron Nagorcka (1948) is a composer, performer, and naturalist. In 1988 he moved to a remote forest in northern Tasmania, where he built his own house and solar-powered studio (some fascinating photos of his home-studio are present in the booklet attached to this release).

This CD collects his first works recorded in his forest residence in Tasmania, his music sites on the borderline between documentation and the fictional landscapes.

Are among the strangest, most fascinating, most intense field recordings based works and an essential chapter in the history of Australian experimental music.

"I can only hope it will encourage people to discover for themselves the mysterious harmony that is wilderness." Ron Nagorcka 1988 

That particular track "Lemarrcootya (Grey Thrush)" in the YouTube clip ABOVE is probably my ab fav example of "beak music" aka avian-garde music, indeed I've posted it here before. But the whole album is lovely and well worth a listen / purchase. 

aussieglam

update: suggestions from Down Under Man Andrew Parker



i know this one - it's on the Junkshop Glam box I reviewed last year, All the Young Droogs  - didn't realise they were Aussies




this one sounds more like Status Quo to me crossed with the Romantics maybe






more aussie glam via Andrew via this this list

mouth music (down under)

mouth music (personal chants)

mouth music bonanza - https://audiographics.bandcamp.com/

AUDIOGRAPHICS was a New Wilderness Foundation project of the 1970s. AUDIOGRAPHICS offered a number of sound artists the opportunity to record a variety of works - experimental and traditional music, poetry, storytelling and other sound and language art - in a professional recording studio. 



"Each piece is concerned with evoking a force-sound, making this force/energy materialize and become quite clear to all there. The players then can't just simply 'learn to play' my pieces. They'll find themselves going through a training course to discover what is meant by sounds and their energy. To discover how to transcend themselves on almost all levels but that of experiencing the rush of the sound through themselves. To learn the fine edge of sound as destructive or misapplied force (un-perceived tone perhaps) and sound as transformer or as something wholeness making." - Annea Lockwood

mouth music (aussiediddling)

(via Andrew Parker)

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