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Secret Piece [1953]

from nature forms I by GreyWing Ensemble

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Yoko Ono Secret Piece [1953] for harp and field recording

Secret Piece (1953) is a text based “event score” from Yoko Ono’s book Grapefruit. Published in 1964 in Tokyo, the book is a collection of performance art pieces she created as member of the Fluxus movement, in the form of textual instructions, and has become famous as an early example of conceptual art. The score for this piece reads:

Decide on one note that you want to play. Play it with the following accompaniment: The woods from 5am to 8am in summer.

Ashley chose to interpret this by making a field recording on November 2 2016 between 5am and 8am at the Moore River State Forest in Gnangara. The three hours of recording were edited down to five minutes. Strangely, remnants of traffic noise can be heard behind the sounds of a state forest in that early hour, creating a dialogue of sorts between nature and man, and performing the harp with these elements, turns these sounds into a unique kind of harmony.

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from nature forms I, released March 25, 2018
Yoko Ono is an internationally recognised Japanese multimedia artist, singer and peace activist, who is also known for her work in performance art, music and filmmaking. [imaginepeace.com]

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GreyWing Ensemble Perth, Australia

GreyWing is an Australian new music group exploring and creating repertoire for harp (Catherine Ashley), electric guitar (Jameson Feakes) and winds (Kirsten Smith and Lindsay Vickery) and electronics. Important thematic strands in the group’s exploration have included environmental music, political commentary, text, generative works, improvisation and noise. ... more

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