Listen & tracks
1 of 6 tracks have a preview · 6 works · 62:43
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1 Ocean Bells Ros Bandt 17:50
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2 Shifts Ros Bandt 8:44
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3 Annapurna Ros Bandt 9:45
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4 Alchemy Ros Bandt 11:15
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5 Gulf Song Ros Bandt 4:26
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6 Night on the Indian Ocean Ros Bandt 10:43
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.
Artists
Ros Bandt
flagong, tape, gamelan and ceramic bells, sampler, mesopotamian bells, voice, environmental recordings
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.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
Technical credits
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Producer
Ros Bandt
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Recording Engineer
Les Craythorn (tracks 1–3)
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Editing Engineer
Martin Wright
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (tracks 1–3)
Move Records Studio (tracks 5 and 6)
Warren Burt's studio (track 4)
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Credit
Judy Lorraine
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 62 minutes 43 seconds
- Release date
- 4 Jun 1995
- Categories
- Australian, Cross-cultural
- Musical work copyright
- © 1983, 1994 Ros Bandt
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1983, 1995 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3045
- EAN
- 9314574304527
More to explore
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.
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
On the Wings of a Butterfly
Cross-cultural music by Australian composers. This 2005 collection from Lê Tuấn Hùng gathers works by Ros Bandt, Brigid Burke, Warren Burt, Deborah Kayser and others, and was nominated for an ARIA Award.