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Island

Barry Truax

Programme notes

Island is a 16-track soundscape composition that blends natural acoustic environmental sounds with processed versions of the same sounds. The result is a visit to an imaginary island embued with magical realism, beginning at the shoreline, proceeding up a rapidly flowing stream, visiting a resonant cistern, climbing to the windy peak of a mountain lake, descending again through a nightime forest of crickets, and ending at a different shoreline. Original sound recordings are by the World Soundscape Project, Robert MacNevin, David Monacchi and the composer.

About this sound recording

Stereophonic 24-bit version realized in December 2014 for electrothèque.

  • Composer(s): Barry Truax
  • Year of composition: 2000
  • Duration: 19:04
  • Instrumentation: 8- / 16-channel fixed medium
  • Publisher(s): Cambridge Street Publishing