The Wolfe Island Tapes

by Anne Bourne

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Jascha Narveson Excellently recorded layers of cello and vocals with background ambiance. When Anne's voice comes in on Water it is a genuinely surprising new timbre that pops into the mix, emerging out of cello harmonics and teetering on the edge of sounding like voice and not-voice. Favorite track: Water/Wasser/L'eau.

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1.	Water/Wasser/L'eau 12:29	info
2.	If 06:17	info
3.	I am 08:06

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Improvisations recorded in a church on Wolfe Island, performed within the digital reproduction of acoustic ambience of various spaces.

In late August 2015, I drove north then east from Toronto. Matt Rogalsky had invited me to visit a small church on Wolfe Island, traditional land of Tyendinaga Mohawk, to record the continuum of voice and cello improvisations I had been circling around. It was a 3 hour drive to Wolfe with a 4 hour detour north, as my young daughter asked me to bring her along. After a brief star gazing moment in the woods, we said goodbye to my daughter’s father, then veered south east in the dark. Arriving in Kingston at dawn we slept for one hour in an old house on the shore of Lake Ontario. Then we took a short ferry ride across to Wolfe Island. Matt set up loudspeakers and microphones in the small sunlit church. It was hot. My daughter read comics lying down in the backseat of the car, parked in the shade. Various tradesmen would come and go with paint and ladders. At one point on the recording you can hear the car door slam and the workmen address the ladder. Matt placed two mics outside the church in the garden. Cicadas and birds came into the soundfield as I improvised by heart two parallel streams of voice and cello.

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released January 10, 2023

Composed and improvised solo cello and voice by Anne Bourne
Designed, recorded, mixed and mastered Matt Rogalsky / Memory Device

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Artist composer improvises emergent streams of sonics, field recordings and text, for spatial installation in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and all living beings. Anne explores themes of equanimity, translation, microtonal sound, listening, walking as embodied sonic archiving, collective creative expression, and composes in attunement to the wave patterns of water. ... more

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