stack
In Stack, Ros Bandt turns Melbourne’s CityLink exhaust chimney into a living instrument. Site recordings, electrified steel and unusual acoustic sources become a sixty-minute electroacoustic portrait of an industrial space now silenced.
Sounds from the cylinder, the external grid and the internal resonant surfaces of experimental concrete, with ambient extractor fans and builders at work, are woven into sonic art of unusual force.
Bandt performs on the 18th-century viola da gamba, medieval flutes, Indonesian gender, percussion and other sources inside this dungeon-like tower. Sections of the steel frame were electrified to yield original percussion timbres. At the Australian Broadcasting Corporation studios, Stack was realised with a wide range of effects and extra recordings, mixed with the site-specific material.
The hybrid CD / CD-ROM also carries a special mix of Stack with a QuickTime movie – a driver’s-seat passage through the Melbourne CityLink tunnels.
Reviews
... an utterly gripping recording. Through its six tracks, Stack brings to life a 55-metre chimney as a weird, eerie and compelling acoustic space. Psaltery and electrified metal have truly never sounded so good together.
... rewarding listening
The resulting music is luminous, hauntingly beautiful and often painfully sad.
The entire work seamlessly moves from one sound to another, layer and texture, gesture and line. There are no flat spots, no obvious structural devices, just the transformation of an industrial artifact into sound with meaning.
From an unlikely location ... Ros Bandt has found inspiration ... something different.
unusual ... adventurous ... a challenge for the investigative ear!
In 6 movements this rare music gives breath to the city’s iron lung
Artist
Ros Bandt
Ros Bandt is an Australian composer, performer and sound artist whose work joins ancient instruments, environmental sound and live electronics in spatial music, installation and sound sculpture.
Audio previews
Tracks
- Red rhythmic pulses in red paint and electrified steel Ros Bandt 9:56
- Black Hole sonic underground, viola da gamba Ros Bandt 14:39
- Lost in Space prepared psaltery and effects Ros Bandt 3:45
- Grid electrified metal Ros Bandt 18:17
- Paean sopranino recorder, voice and effects Ros Bandt 2:04
- Stack aerial spiral mix of 1-3 Ros Bandt 10:50
Performers
- Ros Bandt · viola da gamba, medieval flutes, sopranino recorder, medieval psaltery, gender, percussion, voice, electrified steel, electronic effects
Where to listen
stack is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
stack is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3245
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 59 minutes 31 seconds
- Thanks to
- Creative Australia
Melbourne City Council - Release date
- 2001
- Musical work
copyright - © 2000/1 Ros Bandt
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 2001 Move Records
- Category
- Australian
- Genres
- Experimental, Contemporary Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574324525
Related recordings
Glass & Clay
Ros Bandt, the internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, performer and sound sculptor, shapes subtle, shimmering sonorities from glass and clay. The programme includes Soft and Fragile, first issued on LP in 1983.
Footsteps
The sound of feet on the earth’s surface is a reminder of how location shapes our lives. Ros Bandt’s journey of place, from Western Australia and Florida to suburban Melbourne, is unlike anything else on record.
Stargazer
Ros Bandt explores the resonance of a large hollow concrete cylinder five storeys underground in the Collins Place car park, Melbourne. Stargazer gathers improvisations and compositions for recorders, psaltery, bells, cymbals, kalimba, PVC pipe and music boxes, shaped by that vibrating space.
Improvisations in Acoustic Chambers
Environmental composer Ros Bandt’s first vinyl LP is now available on CD. She works with the sonorities of man-made chambers — a water tank and a wheat silo — where bamboo flute, recorders, lute and voice reverberate. It may sound electronic, but is entirely natural.