Jonnine – Shipwrecked
Sampling the Collection
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To launch the Sounding the Collection sample pack from Powerhouse and Ableton, Jonnine, SOLLYY and Salamanda were commissioned to demonstrate how these sounds can be reimagined into music.
Jonnine Standish’s solo work dilates and deconstructs the damaged, sensual minimalism of her iconic, decade-plus collaboration alongside Nigel Yang in HTRK (2003–present). Skeletal rhythms slink and echo through dimly lit streets framed by fragments of guitar, bass, breath, keys, scrapes and haze, anchored by Standish’s narcotic nocturnal voice. The moods she conjures are lovelorn but oblique, between dream and coma, scenes glimpsed through fogged glass.
‘I was on the hunt for sounds that had a keepsake narrative to them or that felt like they had a soul being passed on from generation to generation.’ – Jonnine
Commissioned by the Powerhouse, Jonnine produced Shipwrecked using samples from Sounding the Collection. Released in collaboration with Ableton, the sample pack features over 100 recordings of objects from the Powerhouse museum's collection. Jonnine used:
Long Case Clock by Thomas Earnshaw – Object No. 94/15/1
Tuning Fork – Object No. H9003-28
Longcase clock by James Oatley – Object No. H5639
Prototype 'Jot A Dot' portable braille writer – Object No. 2006/54/4
Photograph album with built in music box – Object No. H5397
Baby teething ring and rattle – Object No. H5359
Measuring tape from signwriters tool kit – Object No. H10194-4/7
https://powerhouse.com.au/stories/shipwrecked-ableton
Written and produced by Jonnine
Mixed by Amir Shoat
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias
Jonnine Standish’s solo work dilates and deconstructs the damaged, sensual minimalism of her iconic, decade-plus collaboration alongside Nigel Yang in HTRK (2003–present). Skeletal rhythms slink and echo through dimly lit streets framed by fragments of guitar, bass, breath, keys, scrapes and haze, anchored by Standish’s narcotic nocturnal voice. The moods she conjures are lovelorn but oblique, between dream and coma, scenes glimpsed through fogged glass.
‘I was on the hunt for sounds that had a keepsake narrative to them or that felt like they had a soul being passed on from generation to generation.’ – Jonnine
Commissioned by the Powerhouse, Jonnine produced Shipwrecked using samples from Sounding the Collection. Released in collaboration with Ableton, the sample pack features over 100 recordings of objects from the Powerhouse museum's collection. Jonnine used:
Long Case Clock by Thomas Earnshaw – Object No. 94/15/1
Tuning Fork – Object No. H9003-28
Longcase clock by James Oatley – Object No. H5639
Prototype 'Jot A Dot' portable braille writer – Object No. 2006/54/4
Photograph album with built in music box – Object No. H5397
Baby teething ring and rattle – Object No. H5359
Measuring tape from signwriters tool kit – Object No. H10194-4/7
https://powerhouse.com.au/stories/shipwrecked-ableton
Written and produced by Jonnine
Mixed by Amir Shoat
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias
