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Organ Archipelago. Episode 4
[0:04] FEMALE VOICE
You are listening to the fourth episode of “Organ Archipelago”, a series of radio programmes composed by Arturas Bumšteinas as part of his ongoing project entitled “Organ Safari”. Bumšteinas spent one month traveling around his native Lithuania, visiting more than twenty churches, and with the help of organist Gailė Griciūtė and sound engineer Paul Paulun recorded their pipe organs in the conditions that they were found. From these recordings Bumšteinas created 70 minute composition, that he shared with five different improvisers around the world. They were asked to take the recordings to an outdoor location of their choice, put on headphones and improvise along with what they heard.
This episode of “Organ Archipelago” features improvisations recorded by traditional Turkish ney flute player Karahan Kadirman, who for his location forest in Kabak Valley, not far from Fethiye a town located in South-West Turkey.
Describing the site Mr. Kadirman said, “In nature it is very convenient to loose oneself when playing. The energy from the trees and soil resonate deeply. This energy also resonates inside of me. It started happening to me so I went into the organ music and started following all these voices that I heard in it. And, it is important to breathe fresh air”.
When asked to describe the simoultaneous act of listening and playing he said, “I put the headphones on a low level and I closed my eyes. I felt and I saw. I saw waterfall images, a kind of mythological Pan effect, colors and abstract patterns. Nobody else was there. It would have been different if there were people around. The feeling would change. Neither positive nor negative change, just different”.
[02:13] MUSIC PLAYING
[12:25] FEMALE VOICE
You’ve been listening to the fourth episode of “Organ Archipelago”, a series of radio programmes composed by Arturas Bumšteinas with contributions from five solo improvisers. In this episode you heard traditional Turkish ney flute player Karahan Kadirman improvising to organ music gathered in churches throughout Lithuania. In the next episode you’ll hear…
[12:52] MALE VOICE
…I heard the same noise but louder, and saw the leaves shaking as if caused by the motion of some heavy object which moved off to an adjoining tree. I immediately shouted for all of them to come up and try and get a view, so as to allow me to have a shot. This was, not an easy matter, as the Orgān had a knack of selecting places with dense foliage beneath. Very soon, however, one of the Lithuanians called me and pointed upwards, and on looking I saw a great redish body and a huge black case looking down from a great height, as if wanting to know what was making such a disturbance below. I instantly started recording, and it made off at once, so that I could not then tell whether I had recorded anything. He now moved very rapidly and very noiselessly for so large an instrument, so I told the Lithuanians to follow and keep him in sight while I loaded. The forrest was here full of large angular fragments of rock from the mountain above, and thick with hanging and twisted creepers. Running, climbing, and creeping among these, we came up with the creature on the top of a high tree near the road, where the Polishmen had discovered him, and were shouting their astonishment with open mouths: “Tak tak, Panie!; Orgān-utan, Panie! Orgān-utan”. I had a splendid view of him, moving along a large limb of a tree in a semi-erect posture, and showing him to be an instrument of the largest size. At the path he got on to one of the loftiest trees in the forest, and we could see one register hanging down useless, having been broken by a shot…
[14:42] END OF EPISODE 4
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