The Profound Mountain
During a festival on Pikikirunga / Takaka Hill last week, a friend and I performed a spontaneous soundscape of violin and didgeridoo. We had never played together before and we simply set a conscious intention to ‘come out of silence, express the deep, and return to silence’…
The feedback we received was that people had been deeply touched by the presence and profundity of what we played and were asking if it was recorded which it unfortunately wasn’t (must remember to do that when I jam!)
I came back from the festival full of a call to create a piece that expressed that same intention. The result was this 17min soundscape which I think of as an elevator to the deep.
The background ambience is a blend of field recordings of the dawn chorus on Pikikirunga, with frogs and rain from a previous journey.
To listen, I recommend using your best headphones for the full immersion, but take care with the volume as it starts super softly and gets very loud. Alternatively, if you have a decent stereo sound system that you can turn up loud, you can enjoy full body shaking power.
Dedicated to Al Treebeard
