Ocean Flows
Rik Rue clambered around Sydney’s seaside rockpools in the early morning to gather the material for this recording. Intimate, sometimes funny and spectacularly well captured, the sounds build an entire dramatic scenario from a complex web of sonorities.
Three extended soundscapes are shaped from coastal sea flows and motions. The recordings stay close to the water, turning rockpool detail and open tide into long-form drama.
These are experimental field recordings in which water, tide and rockpool life supply the entire sonic material.
Artist
Rik Rue
Rik Rue builds music from tape manipulation, analogue and digital samples, and close field recording. Rockpools and tidal motion become extended soundscapes; elsewhere his electronics lock into dense, interlocking textures with voice, winds and strings.
Tracks
- Ocean Flows 26:11
- Ebbs Tides and Flows 15:02
- Goondiwindi 24:11
Performers
- Rik Rue · field recordings
Where to listen
Ocean Flows is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
Ocean Flows 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
- TP036
- Total playing time
- 65 minutes 24 seconds
- Mixing Engineer
- Julian Knowles
- Release date
- 6 Sep 1993
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1993 Tall Poppies Records
- Category
- Voice / Soundscape
- Genres
- Experimental, Spoken Word
- Barcode
- EAN 9399000003625
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