Field recorded live in the Sidney Nolan space at MONA, Hobart, Tasmania, this recording documents my second performance (the first available here as "Vibrations for Sarcophagus") at the opening of the Summer exhibitions at MONA including 'The Everted Capital', an installation by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni, for which I was composer and musician. An excerpt of the 24 hour film can be viewed at
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This performance was a 2 hour durational work, derived from part of that 24 hour composition, that has been split in two for this release. The title "Ear Splitter" stems from the sheer volume of the performance (not captured well in the recording without cranking it up considerably) which resulted in an elderly museum visitor approaching me while playing asking if it really needed to be so loud and advising me that I should really get some ear plugs. I still don't have any ear plugs.
Recommended to be listened to in a resonant space at ear-splitting volume.
The composition itself is largely improvised, with the core drone being made up of a Lydian 13th Chord, a mode akin to Rag Yaman or Kalyani Raga in Indian Classical musics.
"She who causes auspicious things."
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