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Tungkillo Atmospheres

by Hearing Beings

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‘Tungkillo’ was originally the name given to a mine (around 1847), and then to the town that grew around the mine, and now refers also to the region environing the town, in what is now a mainly pastoral expanse of South Australia. The name ‘Tungkillo’ is a corruption of the local aboriginal Peramangk word ‘tainkila’, which referred to the ‘grubs’ (larvae) of the local species of ‘ghost moth’, which feed on the roots of red gums. The grubs were considered a delicacy by the Peramangk people. Although most of the forests of this region have been cleared for pastoral use, small, scattered pockets of uncleared or regenerated native land remain. These are, in effect, precious and vital oases for native flora and fauna: microcosmic lifeworlds, miniature holographic windows into a vast former world, a timeless time.

Listening for the present presence, the manifestation, the sounding traces of the still-surviving reality of that former timeless time, is one of the deeper motivations of the recordings offered in ‘Tungkillo Atmospheres’. In these recordings, my recent exploration of ‘binaural’ recording has found what, for my purposes, is just one of its several satisfying and fulfilling applications and possibilities. Although I have described these recordings as ‘atmospheres’, or ‘ambiences’, they are also brightly embroidered with a sparse spatial tracery of foreground, midground, and even quite distant, detail. The listener is invited to sit patiently, meditatively, listening intimately, from the inside, to these shifting soundscapes of a delicate, fragile, minimal, precariously-poised, and yet - for the moment, at least - still vigorously alive lifeworld. That it is a microcosm makes it so much more precious, and in need of wise, foresightful protection, and growth.

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released January 11, 2021

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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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