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• John Rimmer: Fleeting Images  Year: 1993 

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• Jonathan Besser: Niu Tireni  Year: 2002 

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• Precious Legacy: Museum music by Jonathan Besser  Year: 2007 

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Podroze (‘Journeys’) is the incredible story of an anonymous man’s journey as a child in World War II: from Poland to the labour camps in Siberia, to Iran, and eventually to New Zealand as a ‘Pahiatua child’. His story is punctuated and ornamented with electroacoustic sounds.

I am indebted to my storyteller for his kind patience and willingness to participate in this project, and I must also thank the following people who generously consented to my sampling of their material – Dr Allan Thomas, Dr Megan Collins, Farhad Bahrami, and hazure, laurent, ljudman & Ironi Alef from the freesound.org project; the following brilliant musicians for allowing me to record them – Jonathan Berkahn (accordion), I Wayan Gde Yudane (percussion), Joel Gordon (percussion), Kylie Nesbit (bassoon), Andrzej Nowicki (clarinet), and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya; and Clare Tattersall for the beautiful French.

Anton Killin

• Anton Killin: Podróże 

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• SMP Ensemble: Podroze - Journeys 

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This work was originally created in 1970 as a music theatre piece incorporating live and taped sounds and actions evocative of ancient erotic rituals, traces of which, I believe, still survive in the communal memory, dormant memories which may be evoked by sound. The score of that version was published in Source: Music of the Avant-Garde Issue No.9. I then made this second, longer version for tape alone.

Over a period of two years I assembled sounds which were, for me, highly sensuous. Rather than consciously working out a structure for them, I let the shape of Tiger Balm emerge on an unconscious level, letting the sounds arrange themselves, as if dreamed, and I found that they moved in a flowing transformation process. Very often a sound merges with its successor, blending together through shared characteristics which are frequently evocative of the tiger’s presence.

The sound used (a cat purring, a heartbeat, gongs, jews harps, a tiger, woman and plane) are all literal, and with the exception of speed change on the gongs and jews harp, none are modified. I find that the less I manipulate sounds, the stronger is their presence and their power for me. (Notes for the LP release on Opus One in 1981).

• Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm 

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• Ruth Anderson: State of the Union Message 

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• Lilburn: Complete Electroacoustic Works 

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