NM presents ‘Érodé/Tunnahan’ - a composition and a field recording from French composer and archivist Guillaume Malaret, crafted between 2020 and 2022.

A protected site of the Bunurong National Marine Park, Eagles Nest is positioned in Boonwurrung Country, in Australia’s region now known as Victoria. It’s a plateau of crags and rock formations, aesthetically prehistoric and protruding with a thousand calcinated shapes, encompassed by a promontory, a beach and a tidal island. Its innate beauty is its constant destruction, shaped by the caress of water, wind, sun and sand.

‘Érodé’ is composed entirely from geophonic recordings taken here, actively centering the resonances between its water and rock masses. Guillaume compiles recordings from a number of meticulously placed microphones so as to optimise listening perspectives, often positioning them beyond the average human’s reach. These recordings are treated and interpolated into a 17 minute composition, transforming this obsessively collected source material into a fascinating, heterogenous repertoire of sound objects. He repurposes these objects to draw us an imagined soundscape, not with the intention of simply transcribing Eagles Nest’s audial environment, but rather... more

released October 10, 2024

Recorded + composed between 2020/2022 in Australia & France.
Mastering at Soulard Inc.
Thanks to the Brous and Riess families.

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35 minutes
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