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STILLS & POSTCARDS FROM THE CENTRE

by QUIES

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Postcard 1: Radio #1 00:45
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Postcard 2: Outside Port Augusta 02:48
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Postcard 3: Ranges View Rest Area 01:16
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Postcard 4: Ti Tree Roadhouse 03:36
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Postcard 5: Rest Stop 01:16
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Postcard 6: Tv Report At Spud's Roadhouse 00:39
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Postcard 7: Cadney Homestead 01:05
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Postcard 8: Oodnadatta Track 03:15
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Postcard 9: Breakaways 01:56
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Postcard 10: Radio #2 01:38
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Postcard 11: Walpa Gorge 01:59
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Postcard 12: Old Cemetery Coober Pedy 01:50
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Postcard 13: Telegraph Station Tennant Creek 05:13
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Postcard 14: Sunrise At Uluru 03:59
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15.
Still 1: Sunset Between Woomera & Roxby Downs 03:28
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Still 2: Serbian Orthodox Church Of The Prophet Elijah 05:49
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Still 3: Road To Lake Torrens 03:17
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18.
Still 4: Underground Motel Room 05:06
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about

Quiet, emptiness, and silence.

What do we hear when there's nothing to listen to?
What do we listen to when there's nothing to hear?

Sound artist Peter Lenaerts went to the Australian desert hoping to find nothing. From Adelaide in the south to Darwin in the north, he travelled 3000km hoping to hear nothing.

The first part of this album - Postcards - is part road trip, part audio documentary: rest stops and roadhouses, homesteads and small settlements; an old cemetery and abandoned telegraph station; radio reports and a sunrise at the rock in Uluru.
The second part - Stills - is almost 20 minutes of near silence, or an attempt at capturing the absence of sound.

"When you escape to a desert, the silence screams in your ear."

credits

released May 3, 2011

Recorded 8-12 February, 2010 in South Australia &
29 July-4 August, 2010 in The Northern Territory.

With the support of the Flemish authorities and Critical Path, Sydney.

Thanks to Amber Ma, Manon Santkin, Ezra Eeman.

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