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Pacific Sound

Colin Offord's Pacific Sound presents musical landscapes built from everyday objects and his own invented instruments of metal, bamboo, timber, bells and shells, evoking oceans, wind, rain and Pacific wildlife.

Colin Offordoriginal sculptures and instruments
  • CatalogueMD 3105
  • Released1990
  • Playing time70 minutes 11 seconds
  • Recorded at Move Records Studio

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1 of 15 tracks have a preview · 7 works · 70:11

  1. 1 Three Sisters Colin Offord 5:54
  2. Earthharp: Music From a Hole in the GroundColin Offord 5 movements18:31
    1. 2 Venus and the sickle moon 3:00
    2. 3 Aeolian vocalion 4:37
    3. 4 Messages down the line 2:52
    4. 5 Double earth beating 4:21
    5. 6 Sweet tin 3:41
  3. 7 West Wind Drift Colin Offord 2:42
  4. 8 Heartland Colin Offord 4:55
  5. 9 Last of the Night Colin Offord 2:54
  6. Pacifica SuiteColin Offord 3 movements23:55
    1. 10 Big blue 8:18
    2. 11 1000 tongues 9:10
    3. 12 Island to island 6:27
  7. Riding on the RimColin Offord 3 movements11:20
    1. 13 Part A 5:01
    2. 14 Part B 2:25
    3. 15 Part C 3:54

Objects and sounds of the everyday world shape these pieces: vast blue oceans, whales, birds, animals, wind and rain stand beside Offord's original instruments—metal, bamboo pipes, timber blocks, bells, thunder dish, conch shells and windpipes.

The programme includes Three Sisters, the multi-part Earthharp: Music From a Hole in the Ground, West Wind Drift, Heartland, Pacifica Suite and Riding on the Rim.

Reviews

... should establish Offord as one of the world's most lyrical and imaginative avant garde musicians ... Stockhausen meets World Music – a cultural clash which is different, daring and never uninteresting.

— Rolling Stone

the disc contains many lovely passages and is carving out new territory in being one of the few discs documenting the sounds of sculpture in Australia.

— Ros Bandt, Sounds Australian

Colin Offord ... is a musician and artist of genius ... he creates music which is so breathtakingly unusual and yet so accessible ...

— Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald

Artists

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Colin Offord

original sculptures and instruments

Colin Offord is a musician, composer, visual artist, inventor of sound sculptures, teacher and the artistic director of the Great Bowing Company.

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List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
70 minutes 11 seconds
Release date
Categories
Australian, Classical, Cross-cultural
Genres
Experimental, World & Cross-cultural
Musical work copyright
© 1990 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 1990 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3105
EAN
9314574310528

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