[ isol: transmission03 ]

Broadcasted on ORF's Kunstradio, as part of their Curated By series.
Broadcasted on AM in Austria, and Shortwave globally. Visit the ORF Shortwave page for SW frequencies in your area.

isol: transmission03 is a 52 minute acoustic navigation of New Zealand. It portrays an intimate and elliptical internal landscape, encompassing arcane electronics, backwards guitars, distant echoing squalls, alien vocal beauty and psychic morse code. The programme evokes rainy days in Taieri Mouth, the windswept expanse of the Canterbury Plains, hunkered afternoons with cups of milo, emotional yearning, dark clouds hovering, thoughts flowing, spirits tumbling and soaring. A bird dreams, the tide comes in, and time itself is audible on crest of a breaking wave. The transmission features a new work, Coordinated Universal Time by Alastair Galbraith. The programme also includes other tracks by Galbraith, including collaborative work with Matt de Gennaro, and a range of other sonic artifacts from New Zealand.

[ transmission substance ]:

Artist: Alastair Galbraith
Track: In The Taieri , (1:20)
Release: Cry
Date: 2000
Label: Emperor Jones

Artist: Alastair Galbraith
Track: Anais , (3:32)
Release: Introversion, 7 "
Date: 1994
Label: Roofbolt

Artist: Alastair Galbraith
Track: Coordinated Universal Time (25:00)
Release: commissioned for i s o l
Label: unreleased
Date: 2002

Artist: Omit
Track: The encompassing, (4:32)
Release: Le Jazz Non
Date: 1997
Label: Corpus Hermeticum

Artist: Alastair Galbraith & Matt de Gennaro
Track: Two Wires, (extract, 3:53)
Release: Wire Music
Date: 1998
Label: Corpus Hermeticum

Artist: Rain
Track: Invisible, (4:46)
Release: Le Jazz Non
Date: 1997
Label: Corpus Hermeticum

Artist: Delire
Track: A Bunker Sympathy, (extract, 1:26)
Release: Topographical Amnesia
Date: 1999
Label: Select Parks

Artist: Alastair Galbraith
Track: Milky Milo Man, (1:00)
Release: I Hear The Devil Calling Me
Date: 1991
Label: Drag City

Artist: Roy Montgomery
Track: The Last Kakapo Dreams of Flying, (6:38)
Release: Scenes from the South Island
Date: 1995
Label: Drunken Fish