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.
Since building the flagong, her glass playable sound sculpture, in 1978, Ros Bandt has pursued the subtle, shimmering and precarious qualities of glass. An invitation from master ceramic artist Judy Lorraine drew that practice into clay as well.
Glass and clay are brittle and vitreous, easily broken, yet charming in their irregularities. Soft and Fragile names the limits that shape both performance and composition. An intimate bond forms with instruments so exposed and vulnerable that striking them with mallets hastens their end.
Reviews
Shimmering and delicate ... The crystalline tones explore subtle rhythmic shifts, drawing in the listener through the sheer beauty of the sounds.
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 preview
Tracks
Performers
- Ros Bandt · flagong, tape, gamelan and ceramic bells, sampler, mesopotamian bells, voice, environmental recordings
- LIME · gamelan bells, vocal drone tape, flagong, temple bells · tracks 2 and 3
Contributors
Ceramic instruments (gamelan bells, temple bells, Mesopotamian bowls)
Judy Lorraine
Where to listen
Glass & Clay is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Glass & Clay 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 3045
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 62 minutes 43 seconds
- Producer
- Ros Bandt
- Recording Engineer
- Les Craythorn (tracks 1–3)
- Editing Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Mastering Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Venue
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (tracks 1–3)
Move Records Studio (tracks 5 and 6)
Warren Burt's studio (track 4) - Credit
- Judy Lorraine
- Release date
- 4 Jun 1995
- Musical work
copyright - © 1983, 1994 Ros Bandt
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1983, 1995 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Cross-cultural
- Genres
- Experimental, Contemporary Classical
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574304527
Related recordings
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.
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.