SpeakingStone51…and the Happiest Days of my Life
SpeakingStone51…and the Happiest Days of my Life
Dedication to My Mother
(‘Nevermoon’ Lighthouse Broadcast/NVRMN-1375)
(The musical piece in 6 acts)
Intro: Inna Happiest Days
I. The Origin of Speaking Stone Pt.I
II. Stepping Into the Light
III. Medieval Total Woman
IV. The Happiest Days of my Light
V. The Garden of Octopus
VI. The Origin of Speaking Stone Pt.II
Outro: As Yet Days Come
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*Description of the samples used:
Intro: Mixture of the following sounds-samples:
- [klankbeeld]: “Pendulum clock (large and slow) ticking. A nice atmosphere of my old daddy's room”.
- [wandererscapes]: “wah effect discovered during washing up the pop corn bowl”.
- [acclivity]: “Wendy walking quickly across a hall in high heels”.
- [differentieel]: High Heels walking on a marble floor recording made in Amsterdam on December 2006 made with a M-Audio Mictrotrack 24/96”.
- [SpSt]: “Tiny baby sitting on the bench beside seashore with waves breaking, calling for her mother. Recorded during our Crete-visit in 2016 in Rethimnon, as soon as I remember”.
Act I. [adeluc4]: “Winding up a clock using winding key”.
Act I. (end of it) & Act II. [SwedFoLife]: “This is a mono recording of a back-&-forth shortwave radio conversation in Dutch I think? The recording has a bit of static in it”.
Act I. (very end of it) [xavierbonfill]: “This sample is part of the idRadio project, made with sounds of Elsodelescultures”.
Act IV. [juskiddink]: “Early morning by the coast on a calm day. Small waves breaking onto a sandy beach and seagulls calling from a cliff-face 200 meters away. Loops cleanly. Recording chain”.
Act VI. (background fragment) [dobroide]: “Howling recorded near half-open window”.
Act VI. [klankbeeld]: “Ham radio competition. The man doesn’t hear the call signs very well what make this track very nice to hear”.
Outro: Mixed with these samples:
- [vovere]: “Lagoon ambience in summer, daytime. Distant waves, birds, crows, insects, frogs. Recorded in Juodkrante, Amber Bay, Lithuania.”
- [Trebblofang]: “Conversation in English language recorded at 7058.00 kHz, lower sideband”.
All samples are taken from: https://freesound.org except intro “sounds of baby and breaking waves” recorded by the author on Crete.
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Cover Picture: Woman With Braided Hair (Another title: Portrait of a Young Katharina Furleger with Her Hair Done Up) (detail).
Albrecht Durer.
Oil on panel, German, 1497. Museum der bildende Kunste, Leipzig.
(Inset’s text and the masterpiece are taken from Workman Publishing Inc. calendar 'The Medieval Woman' 2002) www.workman.com
