Sunday, 22. September 2013, 23:03 - 23:59, Ö1
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1) “Last day at Turkey Creek”

by Jim Denley

2) „Cows and the Fula People“

by Felix Blume


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1) “Last day at Turkey Creek” by Jim Denley
 


“For 6 weeks of 2012 I lived and conducted music workshops in the small community called Warmun, or Turkey Creek, in the East Kimberly region of Western Australia. When I wasn't playing music with the Gija kids I was able to walk around the country with my sax and recording device, one day I climbed Mt Warmun to play. From here you can look down on the town.
 
I can see; the helicopter pad where the tourist flights to the Bungle Bungles depart; the police station; the school; the giant Boab trees; the clinic; the basketball court; the wall-less chapel where mass is celebrated each monday evening; the aged care unit; the early childhood centre; the neat new government built houses of the Gija; the council headquarters; the footy oval; the pool; the bridge over Turkey creek; the famous Warmun arts centre.
 
Around me on the Mountain are giant termite mounds amidst spinifex and red rocks, and a little further down the gorgeous bright red fleshy flowers and black trunk of Kimberly Rose trees. If I look further south east across the plain I see the mountains towards Texas – not Texas USA.
 
I'm sure Warmun has a story – but I don't know it. I can only ignorantly play music in my attempt to be here.
 
But the main character of the program isn't me, music, the Gija kids or the landscape, it's the tape recorder. Having grown up with and used audio recordings my whole life it is clear to me that they can be powerful cultural objects. But how powerful? Could a recording bring on a storm?“
Jim Denley

 
 
2) „Cows and the Fula People“ by Felix Blume


 
Felix Blume has contributed the sound composition “Cows and the Fula People” to the project Personal Radio, part of the festival musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst, Graz, from 3rd to 6th October.

“When wet season is coming, the young Fula people from Mali leave for transhumance during six months with most of the herd. Cows cross the river Niger through West. In the village, women work to feed their family, while men look after a couple of dairy cows. Fula people lives simultaneously with the animal. He accompanies his everyday life with songs and prayers. The legend tells God first created the cow and then Fula people to go along with the animal and to protect him. I've been 2 months in Mali for a documentary film, and record all this sounds in 2005.”
Felix Blume
 
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