Darling Scarp (2024)

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There is a thread of reverence through this work, or nostalgia -- months spent discovering the Buchla 100 in Boston’s winter haze, I could easily daydream about long past summers in Australia, holidays spent far from home in Kalamunda, further south along the darling scarp, navigating my grandmother’s garden.  

Her garden was interwoven from thick, native bush by a network of narrow dirt paths. With a high sun, paths urged you gently gird by clusters of native flowers, her fruits, and aromatics; a changing collection of assembled scraps and overgrown objects hidden and exhibited throughout. As a child, focused on the gnomes, flowers, and fruits, you’d hardly notice the ache and gaze of the eucalypts.

Synthesized sounds for this piece mostly come from the Buchla 100, with the deep low end from a Korg BX3.

recordings

• forthcoming