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Sounding 3: Ōroshi releases into Matsuri

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Date created
2021-06-30
Authors/Contributors
Author (aut): Newman, Amy B.
Abstract
This sound file accompanies Chapter 3 of my doctoral thesis. The five soundings comprise one of the timbral lines of the study, offering an aural expression of my research.

Listen to the commas between the accelerating drumbeats.
Notice the rhythm of the festival, the summoning of kami, ancient gods
carried on the shoulders of the shrine bearers.
Can you feel the weight of their work, your work, transported across ocean?
My saxophone enters, evoking practice and place.
Name
36084-Service File.mp3
Audio file
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Credits
Chinese crash cymbals, chu-daiko, shakers, tuned gongs: Elaine Ginn
Ōroshi: John Endo Greenaway
Angklung, Royal Poinciana seed pods, shakers, shime-daiko, tuned gongs: Amy Newman
Shakers, rattles, tuned gongs: Emiko Newman
Ambient sounds, bells, chant, voices: Rakuichi and festival participants
Shime-daiko: Kanata Soranaka
Crows and ambient west coast forest: Recorded by John Endo Greenaway and Amy Newman
“Aiiro” based on “Nagamochi-uta” (traditional) by Uzume Taiko: Performed by Boyd Grealy on frame drum, John Endo Greenaway on Chinese drum, Amy Newman on alto saxophone, Bonnie Soon on riq. ©Uzume Taiko, Every Part of the Animal. 1998.
Extent
4 min 24 sec
Copyright statement
Copyright is held by the author.
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Contact
amnewish@gmail.com
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None required
Audio file
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etd22438-amy-newman-Newman-Soundings-3.mp3 5.94 MB

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