2016

ABOUT

Sonic Dreams is an imagination of lost and unknown sounds. Performers improvise their way through 8 imaginary soundscapes – the turtle coming up for breath; the spines of the giant echidna rubbing against a tree; the stick-nest rat moving about in its nest for example.

 

Preparation: Practice for this piece may include improvising within the given sound worlds, research about the species in the piece, site visits/recordings, rehearsing how to move from one sonic state to the next. Or it may include going on stage and spontaneously playing from the instruction cards.

 

Performance: Move through the sequence of 8 imagined sound worlds in any order. These may last from 30 second minimum per card, to as long as you like. A different person will lead each change. Changes can be sharp, as in changing a slide, or can cross fade. In the case of a cross-fade, some sort of logic must be applied to the transition. Remember the order, and what you played. The coda is a recount of the sound worlds – 5 seconds per imagination. Together you are creating a series of fixed, repeatable, sonic memories – for that moment only

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Imagine the sound of the pig-footed bandicoot dreaming.

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Imagine the sound of pseudemydura umbrina coming up for a breath

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Imagine the sound of Zaglossus hacketti’s (giant echidna) spines rubbing against a tree.

 

Imagine the sound of Potorous gilbertii at sunset.

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Imagine the sound of notomys macrotis hopping.

 

Imagine the sound of Dasyornis broadbenti litoralis in the dawn chorus.

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Imagine the sound of the Night Parrot calling.

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Imagine the sound of the Lesser stick-nest rat inside its nest.