Medusa Dreaming, by Ros Bandt

Medusa Dreaming

by Ros Bandt

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1.	Ros Bandt and the Medusa Ensemble - The Tears of Yerebatan Palace 08:01	info	buy track
2.	Frozen Locks, Athena’s Curse 04:03	info	buy track
3.	Fish Dreaming 01:41	info	buy track
4.	Ode to Emperor Justinianus 05:04	info	buy track
5.	Water Through Glass 04:44	info	buy track
6.	Corinthian Song 06:05	info	buy track
7.	Water Dreaming 06:37	info	buy track
8.	Medusa Dreaming 06:31	info	buy track
9.	Basilica Dreaming 02:39	info	buy track
10.	From Belgrat Forest 05:12	info	buy track
11.	52 Steps to the Future of Water 05:54	info	buy track

about

“The space is the thing. It’s the key player. Medusa Dreaming is a site-specific water symphony in honor of one of the most beautiful water tanks in the world: heraldic, grand, mythic, epic, scintillating. Each of the eleven movements show an aspect of its personality and history.” Thus Ros Bandt describes the 2010 event that took place in the renowned Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı) beneath Istanbul, Turkey. It forms part of her lifelong journey of sounding spaces and unearthing sonic archaeologies; conjuring musical works that activate the resonance of sacred locations around the world.

Medusa Dreaming celebrates the effort ancient cultures have invested in continuing water care. The ever-watchful Medusa (whose upside-down statue supports one of the columns in the cistern) – together with the 60,000-year-old Australian Aboriginal concept of dreaming as place-based care – serve as a reminder of how important it is to treasure our most precious life-giving resource, water. This is now a global issue, emphasized throughout the piece by the presence of multi-lingual words for “water”.

More than a concert of underground music, the composition is a ceremony that merges spatialized electroacoustic sounds, musical notations, and sound design instructions for a skilled improvising ensemble. Some of the pre-recorded sounds include glass tears from the “flagong” glass sound sculpture, Aeolian harps recorded in Lake Mungo (the site of the earliest continuing culture on earth), an ultrasound recording of a Rimu tree growing in New Zealand, and a live hydrophone audiostream of the carp feeding in the waters below the audience during the performance.

The improvising Medusa Ensemble created for the event filled the space with sonic gestures, embracing the composed leitmotif themes and formal arrangements through their exquisite sounds of harp (Natalia Mann), tarhu (a contemporary Australian spike fiddle), flutes and air whistles (Ros Bandt), electric guitarviol and live processing (Erdem Helvacıoğlu), and percussion (İzzet Kızıl).

Harpist Natalia Mann sums it up: “This is the perfect ambient music for a visit to the cistern. It’s about the space and how it integrates the sound… we have created a kind of vibrating, suspended ornament.”

Melbourne-based Dr. Ros Bandt is an acclaimed environmental sound artist, composer, performer, sound sculptor, sound recordist, designer, and improvising musician.

credits

released July 26, 2021

Erdem Helvacıoğlu (Turkey, USA)
Electric guitarviol and live processing

Natalia Mann (Turkey, Australia)
Harp, Samoan language

Ros Bandt (Australia)
International environmental sound artist, composer, performer,
sound sculptor, sound recordist, designer, improvising musician.
Brass slide whistle (2), Tarhu (9), Renaissance flutes (7), tenor recorders (6), recorded original glass and clay sculptures (1, 5), Aeolian wind harps, (9) Mediaeval psalteries, granulated slide whistles, water recordings, international multi-lingual word submixes (2, 7, 9, 11), live hydrophone feed of carp in the waters below the audience during the performance (2)

İzzet Kızıl (Turkey)
bendir, erbane, clay pot, goat’s claw & seed shakers, shells,
wooden spoons, cymbals, body percussion, voice, Kurdish language

Mastered by Erdem Helvacıoğlu

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Ros Bandt Australia

Dr Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist. Over 4 decades she has pioneered new forms of sonic art, site specific ritual performance in ancient world heritage sites and audience interactive installations. An expert historical wind player and cross-cultural collaborator, she is published by Wergo, New Albion, EMI, Neuma, Efficient Space and Move. ... more

discography

Soft and Fragile

Nov 2021
Medusa Dreaming

Jul 2021
Tarhu Connections

Oct 2016
Birdsong

Feb 2015
Isobue

Jan 2008

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