Listen & tracks

1 of 10 tracks have a preview · 10 works · 67:55

1 Stargazer Ros Bandt 7:46
2 After Meditation Ros Bandt 4:50
3 Pipe Dance Ros Bandt 2:58
4 Genesis Ros Bandt 9:37
5 Spring Flutes Ros Bandt 2:52
6 Invading the Landscape Ros Bandt 5:00
7 Mee-ow Ros Bandt 4:43
8 Subterra Ros Bandt 13:37
9 Mary at the Dairy Ros Bandt 2:53
10 Starzones Ros Bandt 13:39

The music was created over seven years in the enclosed sound environment of the spiral ramp at Collins Place. Historical and non-Western sound sources excite the vibrating space through improvisations, prepared compositions, and electronically altered tape and live performance.

Four pieces use instruments Bandt made herself, among them amplified music boxes, PVC pipes and brass bells.

In the artist’s words

Making music in such a space is like living inside your ear. Everything is enlarged. It is like sound painting in action, activating the sound source, waiting, listening and creating in real time. Gradually, the body and mind become tuned to the environment and the overwhelming presence of sound can be dealt with creatively. One learns to swim in a sea of sound.

— Ros Bandt

Reviews

A nice ear for unusual sounds ... particularly evocative were the blend of cavernous recorded effects with psaltery in Genesis ... real luxuriousness of sound.

— John Rockwell, The New York Times

Don't be put off by the title. Ros Bandt has put together a remarkable series of sound experiments exploring the natural resonating capacities of an unlikely sound-space ... Bandt has a sensitive ear ...

— Sounds Australian

Artists

Ros Bandt

recorders, psaltery, bells, cymbals, gong, kalimba, pvc pipes, music boxes, synthesiser, voice

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.