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CDBranchings - Accessible Places / Jim Franklin.
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Featured Australian works
| Work | Composer | Performers | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branchings (2024) — shakuhachi with live electronics |
Jim Franklin | |||
| Accessible Places — shakuhachi with accompaniment | Jim Franklin |
Product details
Branchings-Accessible Places, a double album by composer and shakuhachi master Jim Franklin. These two extended works, created between 2022 and 2025 in collaboration with visual artist Peroka, explore the intersection of shakuhachi, live-electronics, and image-making.
Although presented here as recordings, both works preserve the ethos of live performance. In Branchings, Franklin recorded the shakuhachi and electronics simultaneously in one take, or in some cases as two separate but unedited layers, each performed live. Accessible Places reverses the process: Peroka first created images inspired by sites she and Franklin had visited, which Franklin then set to music. In both cycles, the integrity of 'in-the-moment' performance remains central: no post-editing, no fixing in the mix. Breath, instrumental sounds, and texture remain part of the living soundscape.
Peroka responded to Franklin's performances with images that are reproduced in the accompanying booklet. Her work draws on ink painting, paper making, and calligraphy, grounding the music in a complementary visual world.
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