MAPS

Produced by Aphids (Melbourne) and Kokon (Denmark)

LIMITED EDITION

"…the most aesthetically refined building tour in history, the most concentrated collection of functioning clocks and metronomes in the Southern Hemisphere…the most fastidiously upmarket echo of Cagean musical cartography.” Jeff Pressing, The Age, Melbourne

COMPOSERS David Young & Juliana Hodkinson
SCENOGRAPHER Louise Beck
TEXT written & recited by Cynthia Troup
MUSICIANS Natasha Anderson (recorders), Katrine Gislinge (pianoforte), Yasutaka Hemmi (violin), Henrik Larsen (percussion), Caerwen Martin (violoncello) and for the Melbourne performances, Vanessa Tomlinson (Percussion) and Helle Thun.


Following the March 2003 broadcast on Danmarks Radio, limited release CDs of the 34 minute creative documentation of the Melbourne and Copenhagen performances of MAPS are now available.

MAPS was an auditory journey through a musical and poetical landscape. Or rather, a journey through the landscapes of the collaborative project MAPS, as presented in Melbourne at the North Melbourne Town Hall (2000), and later in Copenhagen at the Musikvidenskabeligt Institut (2002). A rich and evocative sound-collage, The Soundtrack weaves together fragments of material from the live performances as well as studio recordings.

Conceived as a recollection of the site-specific works, and a reflection upon them, MAPS The Soundtrack first leads the listener through an imaginary maze. S/he becomes flaneur-écouteur - a sonic wanderer - encountering sounds and musics that are often surprising, perhaps only partly recognisable, yet always compelling; inviting the listeners' own projections. The swinging doors and resonant corridors of the maze are then briefly intercepted by Cynthia Troup's poetical text. This seems to more literally describe a pathway - from the beach, the park, the sky and the suburbs, through city streets, the public library and cemetery, to the home, and finally to nowhere and everywhere. Troup s recitation becomes layered with associative aural references and with fragments from the maze. So its mesmeric repetitions trace also a metaphorical trajectory through memory into awareness of the present.

Not only a document of recall, MAPS The Soundtrack is in this way an independent journey of its own. On this journey, the listener now follows, now leads, creating points of orientation based on the constant flow and clash of different intonations, images, atmospheres.

CD produced, mixed & edited by Thomas Winther & Juliana Hodkinson.
TECHNICAL production by the Tonmeister Department of the Royal Danish Academy of Music
LIVE & STUDIO RECORDINGS from MAPS Part 1 Melbourne (2000) and MAPS Part 2 København (2002)
CD GRAPHIC DESIGN by Propellant

SUPPORTED FROM DENMARK BY
Kokon
Danmarks Radio
Musikvidenskabeligt Institut ved Københavns Universitet
Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatoriums tonemesterafdeling
Kulturministeriets Udviklingsfond
Kodas Båndmidler
Københavns Kommunes Kulturfond
Dansk Komponistforening
Statens Kunstfond
Statens Musikråd
Den Australske Ambassade i København
Kortoggodt
Statens Teaterråd
Det Danske Kulturinstituts Rådighedspulje & Kulturudvekslingspulje

SUPPORTED IN AUSTRALIA BY
Australia Council for the Arts
The City of Melbourne
Arts Victoria
Myer Foundation
Australian Embassy in Copenhagen
MAPS was supported by the Commonwealth Government by the Australia Council for the Arts its arts funding and advisory body.