Australian Soundscapes: Lake Emu
Lake Emu is a flood lake on the Darling River in far west New South Wales, in Kinchega National Park. River Red Gums and Black Box were recorded along the Darling. Both sites hold an abundance of birdlife.
These field recordings follow the day from moonlight through sunrise, mid morning, sunset and night at Lake Emu, then dawn, mid morning and evening among river red gums and black box on the Darling. Wildlife calls, wind and insects give each place a continuous sense of time and season.
Reviews
Australian composer and soundscapist David Lumsdaine, now living in York, has a number of contemporary classical albums, but I knew him first as an excellent soundscapist. A man of many talents, he also founded and directed the Electronic Music Studio in Durham U.K., and taught at Leeds College in London. On this CD a wide variety of wildlife -- exotic birds seemingly unique to New South Wales, frogs, crickets, other insects - were recorded at sunrise, sunset, midnight and the hours in between. It includes 10 tracks which basically play continuously, and these soundscapes have a really strong sense of place. No place else on earth sounds like this!
Artist
David Lumsdaine
David Lumsdaine’s music binds serial craft to Australian landscape and birdsong, from the Bach-haunted piano meditation Ruhe sanfte, sanfte ruh’ to the dense cello concerto A Garden of Earthly Delights and pure field recordings of bush dawn choruses.
Tracks
- 1. Moonlight to First Light 16:02
- 2. Sunrise 2:13
- 3. Mid Morning: Wind on the Lake 12:07
- 4. Sunset 8:41
- 5. Moonlight 4:49
- River Red Gums 1. Dawn 5:08
- Black Box 1. Dawn 2:39
- River Red Gums 2. Mid Morning 3:34
- Black Box 2. Mid Morning 2:24
- River Red Gums 3. Evening 3:34
Lake Emu
Performers
- David Lumsdaine · field recordings
Where to listen
Australian Soundscapes: Lake Emu is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Australian Soundscapes: Lake Emu is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP092
- Total playing time
- 61 minutes 11 seconds
- Recording Engineer
- David Lumsdaine
- Release date
- 25 Oct 1996
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © 1996 Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1996 Tall Poppies Records
- Category
- Voice / Soundscape
- Genres
- Spoken Word, World & Cross-cultural
- Barcode
- EAN 9399011009227
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