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Performance by Lamorna Nightingale from the CD Other Voices |
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Other Voices : Music for flute and electronics / Lamorna Nightingale.
Library shelf no. CD 3055 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
"For alto flute and soundtrack is an ecology of water, a sonic response to the interactions of species within sea environments, evoking poetic echoes of time and water.
Ambient sound fields in oceans include not only those of living marine species and other natural oceanographic sources but also sounds from anthropogenic sources, commercial shipping and deep sea exploration for oil and gas. Increasingly, submarine noise pollution threatens essential communication between family groups of whales, especially during epic migratory journeys.
Tystnad (Swedish: silence) may be perceived as a utopian dream state in comparison to that of our planet's noise congested oceans. The work references my experience in a chance encounter with a majestic mysticeti Blue Whale near Húsavík, Iceland, close to the Arctic Circle and alludes to Swedish poet Ebba Lindqvist's 1957 poem Vi som är födda vid havet, (We who are born of the sea)"
Rosalind Page
Work Details
Year: 2015
Instrumentation: Flute, pre-recorded sound.
Duration: 13 min.
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