Scent of Time
Six Australian composers take Asian instruments and voices beyond their own traditions. From dan tranh and sheng to shakuhachi and erhu, the programme is cross-cultural concert music at its most exploratory.
Anne Norman shakuhachi
Wang Zheng-Ting sheng
Dang Kim Hien dan tranh, voice, vietnamese percussion
Peter Neville power pole bells
Australian Chinese Music Ensemble ensemble
Nick Tsiavos double bass
Peter Hagen harpsichord
Julian Yu vocals
Marian Grey vocals
Warren Burt composer
Dang Kim Hien composer
Lê Tuấn Hùng composer
Anne Norman composer
Wang Zheng-Ting composer
In the last two decades, Australian composers have steadily created new works for Asian instruments. Competent performers of those instruments in Australia, and closer cultural, social, political and economic ties with Asia, have driven the trend.
The tone colours, gestures and technical range of Asian instruments have widened the palette of Australian contemporary music. The disc gathers composers who reached out to Asian practice and Asian artists settled in Australia who keep their heritage while writing across cultures.
Reviews
an adventurous and fascinating exploration that produces uniquely beguiling soundscapes.
cross-cultural music at its best.
exceptionally interesting and attractive ... recommended
Artists
Warren Burt
Warren Burt has worked in academia, education and radio, and as a composer, filmmaker, video artist, writer and community-arts organiser. He has produced a large body of work for instruments, electronics, voice, video, theatre, prose and poetry, performed and shown in the USA, Australia, Europe and Japan.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a performer, improviser, composer and teacher of shakuhachi based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance artist across music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording.
Dang Kim Hien
Dang Kim Hien is a composer and virtuoso performer of both traditional and contemporary Vietnamese music. She taught for fourteen years at the Department of Traditional Music of the Conservatory of Music in Saigon.
Lê Tuấn Hùng
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.
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.
Wang Zheng-Ting
Wang Zheng Ting is a composer and master performer of the sheng (Chinese mouth organ). He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and had performed with many leading Chinese orchestras before migrated to Australia in the late 1980s.
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.
Anne Norman
Anne Norman is a performer, improviser, composer and teacher of shakuhachi based in Melbourne. She works as a freelance artist across music-theatre productions, solo and collaborative recitals, broadcasts and recording.
Wang Zheng-Ting
Wang Zheng Ting is a composer and master performer of the sheng (Chinese mouth organ). He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and had performed with many leading Chinese orchestras before migrated to Australia in the late 1980s.
Dang Kim Hien
Dang Kim Hien is a composer and virtuoso performer of both traditional and contemporary Vietnamese music. She taught for fourteen years at the Department of Traditional Music of the Conservatory of Music in Saigon.
Audio previews
Tracks
- We Lose Things Anne Norman 15:40
- Inside/Outside Dang Kim Hien Ros Bandt 10:51
- Shadows of the War Horse Dang Kim Hien 8:25
- Lotus Pond 5:15
- Scent of Time 2:41
- Echoes of an Old Festive Song 2:36
- Spectre Wang Zheng-Ting 8:45
- Ethnic Static from Easy Round and Folk Dances Warren Burt 8:28
- Chinese Whispers Warren Burt 5:32
Three Musical Poems Lê Tuấn Hùng
Performers
- Ros Bandt · viola da gamba, renaissance tenor recorder · track 2
- Anne Norman · shakuhachi · tracks 1 and 5
- Wang Zheng-Ting · sheng · track 7
- Dang Kim Hien · dan tranh, voice, vietnamese percussion · tracks 2 and 3
- Peter Neville · power pole bells · track 1
- Australian Chinese Music Ensemble · tracks 4 and 6
- Nick Tsiavos · track 1
- Peter Hagen · track 5
- Julian Yu · track 9
- Marian Grey · track 9
Contributors
Desktop publishing
Alessandro Servadei
Alessandro Servadei is a graphic designer and recording engineer whose booklet design, layout and studio work appear across many Move Records releases.
Cover painting
Le Van Tai
Where to listen
Scent of Time is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Scent of Time 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 3263
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 68 minutes 13 seconds
- Recording Engineer
- Paul Petran (track 2)
Russell Thomson (track 2) - Thanks to
- Australia Asia Foundation
Creative Australia - Credit
- Alessandro Servadei
Le Van Tai - Release date
- 20 May 2002
- Musical work
copyright - © 2002 Le Tuan Hung, et. al.
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 2002 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Cross-cultural
- Genres
- Contemporary Classical, World & Cross-cultural
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574326321
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