[0:07] FEMALE VOICE
You are listening to the second 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, to put on headphones and improvise along with what they heard.
This episode of Organ Archipelago features South African multi-instrumentalist Cara Stacey, who chose the Newlands forrest on Table Mountain just underneath Devil’s Peek for her location. Stacey recorded on cold and rainy winter day in Capetown in a spot she’s always loved, by a little creek where water comes trickling down from the mountain. Table Mountain is an ecological hotspot and the water runs red because of the special plant type that grows in this area which is called fynbos.
The instruments that Stacey chose to play in this recording are: Uumrhubhe - a mouthbow from the eastern Cape in South Africa, Nyungwe-nyungwe - a little lamellophone found in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, Budongo - a bigger lamellophone from Uganda and Umtshingosi - an overtone flute common around southern Africa.
Although in this location she was sheltered from fierce Capetown wind and rain, it’s possible to hear them in the background.
[02:03] MUSIC PLAYING
[11:39] FEMALE VOICE
You’ve been listening to the second episode of “Organ Archipelago”, a series of radio programmes composed by Arturas Bumšteinas with contributions from five solo improvisers. In this episode you heard South African multi-instrumentalist Cara Stacey improvising to organ music gathered in churches throughout Lithuania. In the next episode you’ll hear…
[12:06] MALE VOICE
…and immediately climbed up the nearest tree, when I recorded more, and it again fell, with a broken manual and a wound in its casing. The two locals now ran up to it, and each seized hold of a slider, telling me to cut a bamboo stick, so they could secure it. But although one manual was broken and it was only a half-grown specimen, it was too strong for these young savages, drawing them up towards its valves notwithstanding all their efforts, so that they were again obliged to leave, or they would have been seriously bitten. It now began climbing up the tree again; and, to avoid trouble, I shot it through the bellows. On June 12th, I again found one on a very high tree, when I had only a small binaural microphone with me. However, I aimed at it, and on seeing me it began howling in a strange voice like a cough, and seemed in a great rage, breaking off branches with its pipes and throwing them down, and then soon made off over the tree-tops. I did not care to follow it, as it was swampy, and in parts dangerous…
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