Noise Husbandry
Noise Husbandry is an electroacoustic work commissioned for the new “Action Stations” permanent exhibition at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Evocative of life at sea, its movements weave eclectic styles as outlined in the collaboration with ANMM … fusing industrial sounds with cinematic thematic work, playlists from popular music of the time the vessels served with confronting new music, soundscape with motif and theme…
LISTEN
Noise Husbandry is the result of a two-year collaboration with the museum and teams outside the museum (MOD Prods did the interactive programming, narrative, and visual design) and Ensemble Offspring performed the recordings and premiered the concert version.
Tracklist
James Humberstone – Crossing The Line I (2016)
James Humberstone – Crossing The Line II (2016)
James Humberstone – Crossing The Line III (2016)
James Humberstone – Crossing The Line IV (2016)
James Humberstone – Codes (2016)
James Humberstone – Mate-Ship (2016)
James Humberstone – In Memoriam: HMAS Voyager (2016)
James Humberstone – Gun Bay (2016)
James Humberstone – Family (2016)
James Humberstone – Second Secrets (2016)
James Humberstone – Seventh Secrets (2016)
James Humberstone – Chamber Surgery (2016)
James Humberstone – Nerve Centre (2016)
James Humberstone – Waves (2016)
James Humberstone – Palindromes (2016)
Performers
Claire Edwardes (percussion)
Bree van Reyk (percussion)
Jason Noble (clarinet)
Lamorna Nightingale (flute)
Credits
Performed by Ensemble Offspring with additional electronics by James Humberstone. Michael Rohanek played piano on Track 7. Composition and sound design by James Humberstone. Commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Recording, mixing and editing by Jarrad Salmon. A research project at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.
Released 2016
