this
small-scale live transmission work was performed, collected and
re-transmitted by Radio Cegeste in the private gardens of an historic
mansion in New Zealand's oldest city, Dunedin, over the course of one
day in early spring, the 11th September 2011. Comprising site specific
outdoor raw field recordings of improvisational acoustic violin and
portable crank Gramophone playback of a 78rpm record of birdsong by
Beatrice Harrison ('Dawn in an Old World Garden (English Songbirds
Awakening) / Nightingales,
Actually recorded in Beatrice Harrison's Garden, Oxted, England',
Orthophonic Recording, Victor 20968), as well as live solar-powered
transmission of environmental recordings collected during the day,
progressively layered back into the environment via solar powered
Mini-FM transmitter and radio receivers.
