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Digital Audio AlbumDrawn and Twisted / Vicki Hallett and Steve Ashby.
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In 2020, Vicki had the unique opportunity to explore the sonic qualities of the heritage machines housed in the National Wool Museum of Australia. Granted access to the space during the COVID lockdown period, she was able to experiment, perform, and record with each piece of equipment in an unprecedented moment of quiet as the presence of other people, traffic, and construction were halted. The machinery in the museum follows the process of turning raw wool into the thread, fabric, and clothing consumed throughout the world. Vicki approached each machine as a musical instrument as she investigated the combs, looms, levers, bins, and other mechanisms inherent to their physical materials. Each producing a unique set of textures, resonances, and percussive elements. She passed this new collection of recordings onto me with the invitation to begin composing and collaborating on a new set of works. Over the course of the years since, Vicki and I have explored iterations and avenues that finally became Drawn and Twisted. Available via Bandcamp.
Contents note: Old hands drift here -- Lay down with the birds -- Wilting in the heat -- Somewhere mixed up in the mirage -- Plucked, drawn and twisted -- Stripped to the roots -- Dustier and dustier -- Time to slither -- The line of shadow across ancient land -- Roads drawn through parched grass -- Gleaming through every crack -- Confusion of fibres -- The fierce glare of sunlight on the grassland -- Rustling tin, almost a low roar.
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