| Egenis
Sound Art Piece - HMV B2469 - Nightingales - Beatrice Harrison |
| PMusic:
'Mobile Dawn In An Old World Garden' |
| exibited
at the Anti-Parallel Show 2007 |
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| top:
a photographic assemblage of Beatrice Harrison at the
cello and the HMV recording |
'Mobile
Dawn In An Old World Garden' is a Parallel Music/sound
piece which takes as its raw material a 'found recording'
- a 78 rpm record of birdsong made eighty years ago in
the garden of renowned musician Beatrice
Harrison (one of the famous Harrison
sisters). It was at Harrison's suggestion that the
first
ever live BBC broadcast was made featuring the cellist
'dueting' with a nightingale in her garden in 1924. The
poetry of this narrative - and the fact that the record
appears to be a field recording of birdsong alone, has
inspired a piece in which Beatrice is hopefully present
by her absence and also provides a comment on representations
of and engagements with the natural world.
To construct the composition, the Harrison recording (HMV
B
2469) was digitised and sonic material from the B
side: 'Dawn In An Old World Garden' (2-9255) was processed
and made into a series of small sound elements or 'Sons'.
The new work - 'Mobile Dawn In An Old World Garden' -
is woven from the random selection and performance of
these Sons.
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