Listen & tracks
1 of 38 tracks have a preview · 10 works · 69:12
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1 Reflections Ros Bandt 6:03
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2 Cicadas Kari 3:29
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3 Spring Ros Bandt 4:24
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4 Pond Ros Bandt 5:28
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5 Stones Ros Bandt 2:59
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6 Bell Ros Bandt :37
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7 Intisari Ros Bandt 11:47
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8 Cobwebs Ros Bandt 12:23
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9 tikar plastik tikar pandan Ros Bandt 5:36
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10 Prayer for Land Ros Bandt 16:26
Brief Bashō settings and a Japanese temple bell open the programme. Longer improvisations peel back layers of Sundanese kacapi, Vietnamese ornament and mediaeval French song, before a closing prayer for those living in exile.
Artists
Back to Back Zithers
ensemble
Back to Back Zithers are four distinguished solo composer-performers who enjoy sharing each other's traditions and skills in the process of making a new Australian music. Since 1988 they have combines their original ideas with musical thoughts from Vietnam, West Java, mediaeval France and Italy in new compositions which transcend the boundaries of East and West.
Ros Bandt
composer
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.
Lê Tuấn Hùng
composer
Lê Tuấn Hùng is a composer, performer and author, specialising in Vietnamese music and the experimental music of contemporary Australia. He has written widely on Vietnamese performing arts and is regarded as an international authority in Vietnamese musicology.
Kari
composer
Kari is a musician and visual artist. She has performed in several multicultural ensembles and explored many musical landscapes. She has also played a key role in facilitating multicultural music in Australia.
Lê Thị Kim
composer
Lê Thị Kim is a Vietnamese đàn tranh virtuoso, singer and composer in classical and village traditions. She has performed widely in Asia, Australia, Canada and Europe.
Widji Thukul
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Back to Back Zithers · ensemble
- Ros Bandt · psaltery, renaissance flute, prepared kacapi, voice, stones, wind chimes, ocarina, japanese bell, wooden sticks, clay drum, skin drum
- Kari · kacapi, bells, bamboo chimes, bamboo slide whistles, prepared kacapi, voice
- Lê Thị Kim · dan tranh, prepared dan tranh
- Lê Tuấn Hùng · dan tranh, prepared dan tranh, psaltery, kacapi, voice, renaissance flute
Technical credits
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Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Move Records Studio
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Thanks to
Creative Australia
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 69 minutes 12 seconds
- Release date
- 1992
- Categories
- Australian, Cross-cultural
- Musical work copyright
- © 1992 Back to Back Zithers
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1992 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3141
- EAN
- 9314574314120
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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.
Move 50
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On the Wings of a Butterfly
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Sonic Archaeologies
Ros Bandt’s electro-acoustic pair Mungo and Thrausmata treat land and ancient Greek text as sonic archaeology. Award-winning works made in the studios of West Deutsche Rundfunk, Cologne.
Scent of Time
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