Composer Michael Pisaro-Liu asked guitarist Jameson Feakes and saxophonist Josten Myburgh to each select a location in Western Australia and make a set of field recordings at different times of day, providing the basis for a musical scroll akin to Chinese scroll paintings, each musician then a poetic character placed into the virtual landscape of their recordings.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 3 Panels Recorded at Boorloo, in Perth, Australia, in Feburary, 2022, by Kieran Kenderessy.
"When one contemplates there is no form, but when one examines, there is coherence."
Bu Yantu, quoted by François Jullien in The Great Image Has No Form
Two scrolls in Western Australia was written in collaboration with Jameson Feakes and Josten Myburgh. I asked each musician to select a location in Western Australia and then to make a set of field recordings there at different times of day. These recordings form the basis of the two scrolls. As with scroll paintings made in China from the Song Dynasty onward, poetic characters (here represented by music for the two instruments) are placed above the landscape."-Michael Pisaro-Liu
The artists wish to pay acknowledgement to Whadjuk Noongar, Chumash, Tongva, Fernandeño Tataviam and Kizh Lands, and custodians and elders of these lands past, present & future.
the development and recording of this work was supported by the Western Australian government through the department of local government, sports and cultural industries.