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Dewey Ambrosino, Dance of the Tarantula Hawk (Parkfield Reprise)

from Parkfield Review #3 by Parkfield Review

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Dewey Ambrosino
Dance of the Tarantula Hawk (Parkfield Reprise)

Dance of the Tarantula Hawk (Parkfield Reprise) is a 9:08 min long sound work that started with collaborative field recordings made by Hungarian artist Andras Blasek and myself on site at the Parkfield retreat location. The title comes from a nighttime event where we witnessed a tarantula hawk wasp dragging a tarantula over a long distance into its underground lair. The field recordings were made with seed pods, found on site, that had a remarkable sound quality. They were collected and then recorded being manipulated sometimes by the wind, sometimes by hand. The recordings were then dragged into my postproduction lair where I administered multiple electronic treatments. I then layered them with a previous experimental electronic recording that was composed visually, using a cymatic phenomena sound system that was controlled digitally through a frequency modulation based synthesizer patch made with Pure Data programming language.

The attempt was to produce a sound piece that first captured and evidenced some audio intrigue about a place that was originally cued by a visual stimulus. Second, like the mind manipulates its surroundings, the content was then manipulated and treated in the lair (studio, domestic environment) and finally placed side by side with another audio experience that was generated through visual means. This attempt is like an audio matrix of memory that can sometimes accrue or aggregate and then produces insight in the exploration and discovery with sound.

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from Parkfield Review #3, released April 29, 2014

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