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Red Earth Mine / Kate Milligan.
by Kate Milligan (2024)
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- Instrumentation: Guitar, percussion.
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Red Earth Mine is a soundscape for the iron ore mining
industry in deep time. In the first movement, 'Deform', material
is repeated with stubborn insistence, and subject to a gradual
extraction process-a musical metaphor for the extraction
industry. As the work progresses the performers must negotiate
dwindling resources, for example as the range shortens,
physically constricting both the guitarist and percussionist in
their upper registers. As the acoustic material degrades, so does
the electronic material, which is made up of an archival
recording of a mine blast. In the second movement, a graphic
score entitled 'Reform', the same musical material is rearranged
in structured improvisation, freed from the rigid extraction
processes. The work ends as a speculative sound-world for this
landscape in the deep future-what will happen to the red earth
over deep timescales, long after human activity has ceased?
Red Earth Mine draws on familial knowledge of the
extraction industry in the north of Western Australia, as both my
father and grandfather worked on iron ore mines (Mount Tom Price
and Paraburdoo) as engineers in the latter half of last century.
The impetus for this work came from conversations with my father
especially, who has spent his career subsequently campaigning for
a green energy industry. We reflected on the tremendous scale of
human impact upon the landscape, the beauty in engineering
processes, the politics of land ownership as it translates to
profit (and the ongoing violence enacted upon our First Nations
communities), and the ubiquity of the energy industry as it
underpins all our lives.
This piece is dedicated to my father, a man who understands that
sustainability is measured in deep time.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score 45p. -- A4 (landscape)) and 1 part (20p. -- A4 (landscape))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 14 mins
Graphic notation edition
ISMN: 979-0-67317-192-3
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