New Day cd - piano & nature sounds

The New Day cd comprises a series of morning pieces written for piano, designed to celebrate the dawning of the new day in 15 locations around Australia.
They were created as a personal response to to the bird songs, rhythms, colours and sounds existing within each particular place's sound environment
The 'New Day' cd was originally made for ABC (national) fm radio to coincide with the Sydney Olympic games in 2000

You may hear a 30 second snippet of all the New Day cd tracks - just by clicking the (play) button; click it again to stop the track

Several of the complete pieces are available for purchased download; click on the 'full track' links

.. 1 .. Cooktown - 5:16 - northern Queensland dawn .. tropical beach; parrots chatting in the dunes above the beach; quiet morning becoming hot; acquamarine sea

.. 2 .. Daintree - 5:17 - northern Queensland rainforest near mangroves; intense with crickets, bird starts its song

.. 3 .. Ramingining - 5:10 - Arnhemland, forest dawn; intense and dense in appearance and sound .. mosquitoes, becoming humid
Available as track download
full track available

.. 4 .. Coomalie - 5:07 - Northern Territory billabong (cut off creek) dawn; birds, fish jump; clear new day settles into a gentle rhythm

.. 5 .. Alice springs - 5:13 - northern pre-dawn .. still dark: pied butcher bird and trucks! galahs (parrot family) wake up and join in

.. 6 .. Angahook - 5:13 - southern Victoria dawn overlooking eucalyptus valley; parrots, currawongs, thrush and crows .. water trickling

.. 7 .. Western port - 5:10 - southern Victoria winter sea, cold and foggy .. wattle birds in banksia trees above beach

.. 8 .. Kinglake - 5:12 - Victorian winter morning in wet forest beside creek; rain hits eucalyptus leaves .. frogs, magpie warble

.. 9 .. Toolangi lyrebird - 5:13 - Victorian winter on mountain top; spectacular (imitative) bird song

.. 10 . Errinunundra - 5:06 - eastern Australian eucalypt forest; pristine morning after overnight rain .. crickets, frogs, gang gang cockatoos
Available as track download
full track available

.. 11 . Aragunnu - 5:25 - south coast, NSW ‘old spirit’ fills this place .. bell birds,currawong, crickets, eucalypts

.. 12 . Cania gorge - 5:28 - Queensland dawn .. busy waterhole in dry open woodland; crows caw .. and a cow runs through!

.. 13 . Barmah forest - 5:20 - Victoria/NSW border; the Murray/Tongala river; early morning thunder rolls away growling, fish jump, corellas (parrots) wake and ‘swirl’; frogs and crickets chatter

.. 14 . Badja - 5:07 - southern NSW cool morning; wet grass, small creek runs over rocks .. shrike thrush calls, magpies in background

.. 15 . Lamington - 5:30 - Queensland/NSW border escarpment; eucalypt and rain forest awakens .. whip birds, cat bird, parrots whiz through, early morning hikers pass!

‘New Day’ is 78’ long

‘new day’ cd is available from
buywell.com and
abc shops on-line
- or there are the 'download tracks' available here ..

'Australian sound environments are very diverse in their content
Pieces may be as simple as birds singing, people talking, engines, storms, frogs and crickets; they may include instrumental pieces played in response to these sounds
The spirit of place may be heard in its sounds

(I) travelled to fifteen different places throughout Australia recording the natural sounds of wildlife, water and vegetation of the region at daybreak .. then writing original music to be blended into these soundscapes.'

The result is a striking celebration of music in nature.
These fifteen pieces represent tropical north Queensland, the Northern Territory, coastal New South Wales and the Victorian highlands, filled with the sounds of gang gang cockatoos, wattle birds, corellas, jumping fish, frogs, crickets and a thunderstorm


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