Symbiosis 69 - Seaworthy & Matt Rosner

The wonderful Symbiosis has just posted their latest podcast featuring Seaworthy and Matt Rosner.
Much credit goes to Matt for putting this mix together as he describes the material contained within " This mix for Symbiosis is made up of a live set recorded last year at Sydney’s Serial Space. The recording documents the first time we had collaborated. The take is completely improvised with no rehearsal beforehand, it was just a case of arrive at the venue and play. At the end of the live set, the mix features a short re-working of material from the Two Lakes sessions. Processed ebowed guitar recorded are set against a recording taken in a dense area of sedges surrounding Lake Meroo."

Listen at Symbiosis

Rocks

There are some amazing rock formations along the coast around Meroo National Park where the recordings for Two Lakes took place. Some of the most interesting were the piles of rocks on top of and adjacent to the rock platforms. A large jumble of misshapen rocks and boulders that have no doubt been rearranged time and time again by the strong southerly storm swells that so often march up, and pound into, the coast within this region.

Forest around the lake

Surrounding the two lake systems are extensive woodland and forests dominated by eucalypts. These forests provide habitat for a number of threatened species such as powerful owls, sooty owls, masked owls, glossy black cockatoos and yellow-bellied gliders. Closer the the lake edge, there are also pockets of swamp oak woodlands that provide an eerie link between lake and forest.

Many recordings made within the forest made it onto "Two Lakes", particularly a series of songbird recordings made at day break one morning. Also, listen closely to try and spot the eastern whip bird call somewhere on the album.

Lake Surface

A short sample providing an example of some of the recordings made across the surface of Termeil and Meroo Lakes. These recording were made with a shotgun microphone set as low as possible to the lake surface. While capturing the sounds of the foreshore and woodland approximately 100m away, it was hoped that the occasional sounds of birds, insects and fish interecting at the water surface would be captured.



Lake Surface by seaworthy

Two Lakes Sleeve Art

The photograph from the cover of Two Lakes comes from within an extensive sedgeland consisting of Juncus krasuii alongside Meroo Lake. There was about an hour or so of recordings made this morning within and around the sedgeland. Quite an amazing morning, cool but sunny without too much breeze. There were massess of swarming insects (small flies and midges) through out the sedgeland and they created an amazing sight as they caught the sunrise and contrasted against the casuarina forest and rocky headland behind.

The photo was taken using a Canon PowerShot S5IS. Many thanks go to Taylor Deupree for his artistic vision and processing skills to bring out the best in the photo.

Two Lakes samples

Sound samples from the upcoming Two Lakes release are now available from the 12k website!