On Saturday James Howard and I headed up to the Northcote Uniting Church and recorded the ’Music of the Orient: India and China’ concert featuring Mindy Mang Wang playing guzheng, Vinod Prasanna playing bansuri flute and Glen Kniebeiss on tabla. For this recording we used the Nagra VI recorder coupled with the new Nagra EMP preamp along with four DPA 4023 mics (ORTF stereo overheads, guzheng and bansuri) and a humble Shure SM57 on the tabla.
Concert recording for the Star Chorale Choir and Orchestra performing Mozart’s Grand Mass in C Minor at the James Tatoulis Auditorium in Methodist Ladies’ College, July 2011. Directed by Jane Elton Brown and featuring soloists Jane O’Toole, Kerrie Bolton, Roy Best and Gary Rowley. The microphones used for the recording were 4 DPA 4023s, 2 DPA 4060s and 4 Neumann U89s, run into a Nagra VI alongside a 4 channel GML preamp and interface combo.
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Concert recording for chamber choir Choristry performing Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with soloists and piano at St John’s Southgate. Conducted by Trevor Jones, Piano by Peter Dumsday.
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Mongolian Throat singer (Huumii) and Horse Fiddler (Morin Huur) Bukhchuluun Ganburged came to Melbourne recently to perform at the Australia Day celebrations in Federation Square. Before he headed back to Sydney we did some recording.
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Headed over to WOMADelaide to make concert recordings for Leah Flannigan and The Woohoo Revue . Systa BB kindly got me a last minute press pass to knock off some photos for Triple R radio, which turned my attention slightly more towards photography (press pits are just good fun). Met Sam & Paul who were over from SSL in Oxford for a series of product demos and we spent a few hours in the beer garden before bumping into Steve Fieldhouse who was recording the festival (using an SSL C200 console). Steve and Tom gave us tour through the ABC OB truck, and that led to picking up the gig of taking photos to accompany each of the recordings for ABC Radio National. All up had a great time.
Finished off audio production for Warrima, a short film written and directed by Meme McDonald and produced by Youthworx as a companion to the newly released book Shake A Leg by author Boori Pryor and illustrator Jan Ormerod.
Headed up to the Woodford Folk Festival and recorded a number of artist performances including: Dya Singh World Music Group, The Bird, Mista Savona, Leah Flannigan, RedBantoo, Hermitude and Spankinhide.
Flood waters over bridge in Warwick, Queensland
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Here’s some Australian soundscapes made at various intervals between Sydney and Brisbane using a Nagra VI field recorder and a pair of DPA 4023 microphones.
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Soundscape from my grandparents dam just outside of Orange, NSW at around 1am
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Sounds just outside of Orange, NSW
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Sound of seagulls at the docklands Melbourne, 1.30am
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Headed down to the Trinity Uniting Church in Brighton on a sunny Sunday with Sam McNicol to record the Five Pointed Star concert for the Melbourne Composers League. Here’s an excerpt of composer Andrew Batterham’s song Such Sweet Sorrow, performed by the Silo String Quartet.
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Contracted to produce a 20 minute music piece used in the Australian Pavilion throughout the World Expo in Shanghai to accompany sand art performances; the piece was a fuse of Indigenous musicians, outback soundscapes and contemporary music.
As part of Greg Simmon’s GEOS expedition we recorded monks chanting at the Gyuto Monastery in January 2010
Recording of shehnai player Ustad Ali Abbas Khan and his ensemble in the grounds of the Chet Singh Palace in Varanasi, overlooking the Ganges River.
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On our trip through Nepal we visited the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, Nepal where a marker stone proclaims “the Exact Birthplace of Buddha”. Just outside the temple Greg Simmons and I recorded two monks reciting prayers.
