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A Silver​-​lined Dawn. Late Winter.

by Hearing Beings

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A Silver-lined Dawn. Late Winter. Part 1. 32:33
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A Silver-lined Dawn. Late Winter. Part 2. 32:33
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A Silver-lined Dawn. Late Winter. Part 3. 32:03

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Why a ‘silver-lined’ dawn? Well, first of all, because the place where these recordings were made was briefly, from 1862 to 1872, a silver mine. The mine was established by a Scotsman, who named it after a locality on the Isle of Skye (well-known, today, for its deep-flavoured peated whisky). He employed Cornish miners, and work at the mine supported a nearby township, named Silverton.

The locality still bears that name today, but the remains of the mine are a somehow hauntingly beautiful, slowly-disintegrating, historical site. The coastal eucalypt and grass tree forest has almost reclaimed the clearing, which is now embedded in a conservation park (Talisker Conservation Park, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia). The ‘silver lining’, here, is also, in part, the fact that the silver mine failed. If it had not failed, then you most definitely could not, now, listen to a soundscape of night and dawn like this, from this place. And I would not have been able to use a beautifully constructed but now abandoned 1860s brick kiln as a shelter from the weather, and as a bird hide, from which to feed long cables to my microphones, raised between the trees outside.

This recording was made during the dawn of 14 August 2022, and runs for 1 hour and 37 minutes, from 06:15 to 07:53 (ACST): from before first light till after sunrise, into early morning. It was recorded with a pair of Sennheiser MKH 8020 omnidirectional microphones, in AB array with 62 cm spacing, into a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. This is the original recording, entirely unprocessed and unedited, except that it was originally recorded as 96 kHz/24 bit wav, but has been rendered here as 48 kHz/24 bit wav.

Recorded respectfully upon the land of the Ngarrindjeri nation of indigenous tribal peoples.

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released September 1, 2023

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Hearing Beings Australia

Exploring hearing, the hearable, and the hearer, as an event, a mode, and a dimension of being.

Each year, proceeds from personal purchases will be donated to a not-for-profit organisation working to protect natural environments and ecosystems. In 2024, it was the Australian Conservation Foundation.

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