CD: Tarhu connections / Ros Bandt. [2016] : Product : Australian Music Centre

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Tarhu connections / Ros Bandt.

Published by Hearing Places — 2016 — 2 CDs
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Work	Composer	Performers	Duration
Demeter (2011) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: Corfu and Elefsina, Greece, on 2011.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Arthur Scott McDevitt	3 mins, 13 sec.
Far away lands (2016) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: Melbourne and New Yrok, on 2016.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	4 mins, 39 sec.
Fields of gold — other string in chamber ensemble Recorded/performed at: Vaughan Springs, Vic	Zheng-Ting Wang and Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Zheng-Ting Wang	3 mins, 55 sec.
Four murders in four minutes (2016) for electroacoustic Recorded/performed at: Australasian Computer Music Association concert (ABC radio live broadcast), on Nov 15.	Jon Drummond and Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Jon Drummond	4 mins
Fragment (2010) — unspecified voice solo	Ros Bandt	Raziye Salari	22 sec.
From the Shofar (2011) for electroacoustic Recorded/performed at: Ros Bandt's electroacoustic concert Sounding Spaces, Rethymnon TEI studios, Crete, on 29 Mar 11.	Ros Bandt and Gabriel Negrin	Ros Bandt, Gabriel Negrin	3 mins, 22 sec.
From the Venetian mansion (2005) for string duo Recorded/performed at: Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Ruth Wilkinson	2 mins, 10 sec.
Ggantija (2015) — spoken voice with accompaniment Recorded/performed at: Ggantija, Gozo, Malta	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Marlene Saliba	1 mins, 35 sec.
Hania in the rain (2006) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: Hania, Crete, on 2016.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	4 mins, 15 sec.
Hydra (2006) — other string with pre-recorded sound	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	6 mins, 39 sec.
Jiring jiring lullaby (2010) — spoken voice with accompaniment	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Raziye Salari	2 mins, 22 sec.
Listening through the walls (2016) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: Hania, Crete, on 2016.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	11 mins, 49 sec.
Lyres & lyrebirds (2016) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: Delphi and Sherbrook Forest, on 2016.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	2 mins, 10 sec.
Pandora's box (2010) — spoken voice with accompaniment Recorded/performed at: Melbourne	Arthur Scott McDevitt and Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Arthur Scott McDevitt	6 mins
Rapturous (2016) — solo other string Recorded/performed at: Melbourne & Arizona, on 2016.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	3 mins, 37 sec.
Rimu (2011) — other string with pre-recorded sound Recorded/performed at: The Athens Centre, Greece, on 2011.	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	5 mins, 8 sec.
Sheng and tarhu in the bush (2016) — duos including other string instrument Recorded/performed at: Fryerstown VIC	Ros Bandt and Zheng-Ting Wang	Ros Bandt, Zheng-Ting Wang	3 mins, 4 sec.
Silk bamboo wind (2016) — other string in chamber ensemble	Ros Bandt and Lê Tuân Hùng	Ros Bandt, Lê Tuân Hùng	3 mins, 38 sec.
Stranded on ice (2010) for electroacoustic	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Jim Atkins	5 mins, 22 sec.
Tell us (2010) — spoken voice with accompaniment	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt, Raziye Salari	4 mins, 54 sec.
Tragoudia (2005) — other string with pre-recorded sound — Mvt. I Recorded/performed at: Therisso, Lefka Ori (White Mountains), Crete, Greece	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	3 mins, 28 sec.
Tragoudia (2005) — other string with pre-recorded sound — Mvt. II Recorded/performed at: Therisso, Lefka Ori (White Mountains), Crete, Greece	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	4 mins, 5 sec.
Whalesong (2008) — solo other string Recorded/performed at: Wakayama Radio station, Japan	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	3 mins, 41 sec.
Windharps Remix (2016) — other string with pre-recorded sound	Ros Bandt	Ros Bandt	8 mins, 9 sec.
Yerebatan Sarnici II (2010) for string duo Recorded/performed at: Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul, on 2010.	Ros Bandt and Natalia Mann	Ros Bandt, Natalia Mann	8 mins, 33 sec.
Yerebatan Sarnici I (2010) for string duo Recorded/performed at: Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul, on 2010.	Ros Bandt and Natalia Mann	Ros Bandt, Natalia Mann	8 mins, 23 sec.

Product details

The tarhu is my divining tool. I never know if it will celebrate, lament, shudder, roar, sing, pluck, rattle, or in fact come out of its case at all. Over the last 10 years I could not have predicted the journeys we have had together and the connections it has formed. It is my Bull of Minos. It has a special affinity with Hania, Crete, having lived there many times. It has travelled many continents and sounded 5 UNESCO heritage sites and biosphere reserves. It has been flooded in the depths of water cisterns and oceans, climbed to the highest mountains in Crete, lamented whales on Japanese radio, vibrated and laughed in the wind, sent messages via solar power to other musicians in 55 acres of Australian bush and accompanied 9 concert harpists forming a cobweb in the concert hall. It has played to silent movies, and videos, and in trucks, deserts and carparks. It's bow has been tied up to glass trees which shake on every stroke. For me the tarhu questions the nature of the now, the immediacy of being alive and the connections we make. How and what are we communicating through sound, for whom and why and where? The tarhu has been a vehicle to expand intercultural dialogue through non-verbal communication as it accompanies the unknown sounds of the Persian texts of Rumi, original Maltese poetry and ancient Greek. It retunes for the Sheng Chinese mouthorgan, the Vietnamese plucked Dan Tranh, Turkish modes or the baroque viola da gamba. Mostly it is in (a) d a d g in just intonation with its 8 sympathetic strings tuned to suit. It knows no bounds. With the tarhu , ideas, fictions and dreams become reality in performance, in the studio, on environmental locations, in long sound installations, online. It traverses old and new, high and low, near and far, east and west, real and virtual, ancient and modern, wet and dry, possible and impossible, acoustic and synthetic. It collapses the present, past and future in its moment of sounding. It is rapturous, flying above the stratosphere, a powerful eagle carving the cosmos.

Liner booklet includes programme notes and biographical information about composer.