[0:11] FEMALE VOICE
You are listening to the third 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 acoustic guitar improvisations by Tashi Dorji, a Bhutanese musician currently living in Ashville, North Carolina. When asked where he chose to record his improvisation, Tashi Dorji gave two slightly different answers. First was in an abandoned lot full of wild vegetation, right in Ashville city center, which was pervaded by the sense of eariness as if shrouded by some sort of ancient story. Later, however, Tashi said the recording was done late night outside his own house and that he chose it for no specific reason other than it was ver convenient and featured lots of nocturnal insect and street sounds.
Dorji says, “I don’t do outdoor recording sessions at all, this one was actually the first”.
[02:00] MUSIC PLAYING
[11:11] FEMALE VOICE
You’ve been listening to the third episode of “Organ Archipelago”, a series of radio programmes composed by Arturas Bumšteinas with contributions from five solo improvisers. In this episode you heard Tashi Dorji improvising on acoustic guitar to organ music gathered in churches throughout Lithuania. In the next episode you’ll hear…
[11:35] MALE VOICE
…a week after I succeeded in shooting a full-grown male Orgān-utan I had just come home from an ethnomusicological excursion when Paul (my main recording engineer) rushed-in out of breath, and exclaimed, interrupted by gasps, “Get the mikes, sir, be quick,—such a large Varguona!”. “Where is it?” I asked, taking hold of my cardioid as I spoke, which happened luckily to be loaded with batteries. “Close by, sir—on the path to the church - it can't get away!”. Two Lithuanians chanced to be in the house at the time, so I called them to accompany me, and started off, telling Paul to bring all the recording equipment after me as soon as possible. We walked cautiously along the path, not making the least noise, and listening attentively for any sound which might betray the presence of the Orgān-utan, stopping at intervals to gaze upwards. Paul soon joined us at the place where he had seen the creature, and having taken the omnidirectional microphones and loaded the portable tape decks with batteries we dispersed a little, feeling sure that it must be somewhere near. After a short time I heard a very slight whistling sound overhead, but on gazing up could see nothing.
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