Go to the download page for an extract (mixed down to stereo) from Peace and Quiet.

Program note

Peace and Quiet is a soundscape of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Kangaroo Island (south of Adelaide) is a quiet and peaceful place (usually). The sounds in this piece were all recorded there at the end of August 2002, mostly in Flinders Chase National park. The sounds have not been processed, except for their positioning in the surround sound space.

The piece is available in four forms:

• as six WAV-format files on a CD-ROM, corresponding to the six channels of a 5.1 surround sound system;
• as a DVD-Audio disc;
• as a sound-only DVD with either DTS surround or Dolby surround sound (with blank video);
• as a stereo mixdown on audio CD.

Performances, etc

• "Live Wires" concert, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University, 20 November 2002;
• The "Hearing Place", an audiotheque organised by the Australian Sound Design Project in association with the International Symposium on Acoustic Ecology held at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 19–23 March 2003;
• In the "Sound Spaces" program, part of the Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth, 10–20 April 2003;
• Australasian Computer Music Association Conference, Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts, Perth, 7 July 2003.

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