garrawang + biderap: black field cricket mating song
amby downs
garrawang + biderap: black field cricket mating song
Boomkat Product Review:
amby downs returns to Longform with a bewitching collage of natural and household sounds - cricket chirps, birdsong, radio snippets and foley clatter - that merge into a lower case symphony of ghostly echoes and and groggy drones.
Interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (aka amby downs) was inspired to create 'garrawang + biderap' when she heard black field crickets' mating songs buzzing through the late summer's humid air. She captured various recordings, many of which also feature birdsong, and began a process of careful, intricate listening as she looped certain sounds and placed them alongside other elements, such as movements from around her house. The result is a long meditation on "invitation and intrigue" that's hard to place at first.
Palmer doesn't obscure the sounds too much, but her gentle processes are unsettling enough that the context becomes skewed, and what we're hearing isn't always obvious. The chirps seem to breathe around Palmer's muffled additional elements, that sound like huge gongs submerged in a vast metal tank. Sometimes music - chopped from indisctinct radio broadcasts - materializes from the ether, but it's never completely legible. Palmer finds an eerie balance between the natural world and the human world that sounds as if it's from the outside in, as if it's the crickets themselves that are observing her.
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Boomkat Product Review:
amby downs returns to Longform with a bewitching collage of natural and household sounds - cricket chirps, birdsong, radio snippets and foley clatter - that merge into a lower case symphony of ghostly echoes and and groggy drones.
Interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (aka amby downs) was inspired to create 'garrawang + biderap' when she heard black field crickets' mating songs buzzing through the late summer's humid air. She captured various recordings, many of which also feature birdsong, and began a process of careful, intricate listening as she looped certain sounds and placed them alongside other elements, such as movements from around her house. The result is a long meditation on "invitation and intrigue" that's hard to place at first.
Palmer doesn't obscure the sounds too much, but her gentle processes are unsettling enough that the context becomes skewed, and what we're hearing isn't always obvious. The chirps seem to breathe around Palmer's muffled additional elements, that sound like huge gongs submerged in a vast metal tank. Sometimes music - chopped from indisctinct radio broadcasts - materializes from the ether, but it's never completely legible. Palmer finds an eerie balance between the natural world and the human world that sounds as if it's from the outside in, as if it's the crickets themselves that are observing her.
Boomkat Product Review:
amby downs returns to Longform with a bewitching collage of natural and household sounds - cricket chirps, birdsong, radio snippets and foley clatter - that merge into a lower case symphony of ghostly echoes and and groggy drones.
Interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (aka amby downs) was inspired to create 'garrawang + biderap' when she heard black field crickets' mating songs buzzing through the late summer's humid air. She captured various recordings, many of which also feature birdsong, and began a process of careful, intricate listening as she looped certain sounds and placed them alongside other elements, such as movements from around her house. The result is a long meditation on "invitation and intrigue" that's hard to place at first.
Palmer doesn't obscure the sounds too much, but her gentle processes are unsettling enough that the context becomes skewed, and what we're hearing isn't always obvious. The chirps seem to breathe around Palmer's muffled additional elements, that sound like huge gongs submerged in a vast metal tank. Sometimes music - chopped from indisctinct radio broadcasts - materializes from the ether, but it's never completely legible. Palmer finds an eerie balance between the natural world and the human world that sounds as if it's from the outside in, as if it's the crickets themselves that are observing her.
Boomkat Product Review:
amby downs returns to Longform with a bewitching collage of natural and household sounds - cricket chirps, birdsong, radio snippets and foley clatter - that merge into a lower case symphony of ghostly echoes and and groggy drones.
Interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer (aka amby downs) was inspired to create 'garrawang + biderap' when she heard black field crickets' mating songs buzzing through the late summer's humid air. She captured various recordings, many of which also feature birdsong, and began a process of careful, intricate listening as she looped certain sounds and placed them alongside other elements, such as movements from around her house. The result is a long meditation on "invitation and intrigue" that's hard to place at first.
Palmer doesn't obscure the sounds too much, but her gentle processes are unsettling enough that the context becomes skewed, and what we're hearing isn't always obvious. The chirps seem to breathe around Palmer's muffled additional elements, that sound like huge gongs submerged in a vast metal tank. Sometimes music - chopped from indisctinct radio broadcasts - materializes from the ether, but it's never completely legible. Palmer finds an eerie balance between the natural world and the human world that sounds as if it's from the outside in, as if it's the crickets themselves that are observing her.
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