Various artists

Elephant

Musique inspirée et tirée du film
MK2
MK2 8345106112
2003
CD
1 disc
Not in catalogue

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Elephant
Track 9 from Elephant
CD: MK2 (2003) MK2 8345106112
    • 9
      • Commission: Östereichischer Rundfunk
      • Premiere: September 1989 (Linz, Austria)
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      • Elephant
        Various artists
        Musique inspirée et tirée du film
        MK2
        MK2 8345106112
        2003
        CD
        1 disc
        Not in catalogue
    • 10
      piste@mk2_8345106112-1.10 oeuvre@28663

      This Track Appears On…

      • Elephant
        Various artists
        Musique inspirée et tirée du film
        MK2
        MK2 8345106112
        2003
        CD
        1 disc
        Not in catalogue
    • 11
      Beneath the Forest Floor (excerpt) (1992), 4m11s
      • Commission: Two New HoursCBC
      • Premiere: April 1992, Two New Hours, CBC (Canada)

      Beneath The Forest Floor is composed from sounds recorded in old-growth forests on British Columbia’s westcoast. It moves us through the visible forest, into its shadow world, its spirit; into that which effects our body, heart and mind when we experience forest.

      Most of the sounds for this composition were recorded in one specific location, the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island. This old-growth rainforest contains some of the tallest known Sitka spruce in the world and cedar trees that are well over one thousand years old. Its stillness is enormous, punctuated only occasionally by the sounds of small songbirds, ravens and jays, squirrels, flies and mosquitoes. Although the Carmanah Creek is a constant acoustic presence it never disturbs the peace. Its sound moves in and out of the forest silence as the trail meanders in and out of clearings near the creek. A few days in the Carmanah creates deep inner peace — transmitted, surely, by the trees who have been standing in the same place for hundreds of years.

      Beneath The Forest Floor is attempting to provide a space in time for the experience of such peace. Better still, it hopes to encourage listeners to visit a place like the Carmanah, half of which has already been destroyed by clear-cut logging. Aside from experiencing its huge stillness a visit will also transmit a very real knowledge of what is lost if these forests disappear: not only the trees but also an inner space that they transmit to us — a sense of balance and focus, of new energy and life. The inner forest, the forest in us.

       

      Beneath The Forest Floor was produced in CBC’s Advanced Audio Production Facility in Toronto with the technical assistance of Joanne Anka and Rod Crocker and was commissioned by CBC Radio for Two New Hours. The piece was first broadcast on Two New Hours in April, 1992. Thanks to Norbert Ruebsaat for providing his recordings of an adult raven and a young raven from the Queen Charlotte Islands. All other recordings were made by myself mostly in the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island, as well as in forests near Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, on Galiano Island and in Lighthouse Park near Vancouver. All sounds were recorded throughout the summer of 1991. Thanks to Peter Grant for assisting in much of the recording process. Special thanks go to David Jaeger, producer of Two New Hours, for making this possible and for giving me the opportunity to work in the CBC Radio studio in Toronto. Beneath The Forest Floor was recommended for broadcast by the International Music Council’s Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music in 1992, and received a special mention at Prix Italia 1994.

      piste@mk2_8345106112-1.11 oeuvre@14315 ISRC CAD509612300

      This Track Appears On…

      • Elephant
        Various artists
        Musique inspirée et tirée du film
        MK2
        MK2 8345106112
        2003
        CD
        1 disc
        Not in catalogue

    This Track Appears On…

    • Elephant
      Various artists
      Musique inspirée et tirée du film
      MK2
      MK2 8345106112
      2003
      CD
      1 disc
      Not in catalogue

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