Uamhan
For the final field project of the trip, Colin and Rory traveled to a cave on Lismore’s West bank. Speakers were set up throughout the corpus of the cave, and the following performance was improvised. Microphones captured the spatialisation of the speakers within the cave, and the resulting audio was balanced with the internal recording.
Capturing impulse responses -
Farewell to the land where my childhood was pass'd,
And to the sweet scene these dim clouds o'ercast ;
Farewell to its hills, and its dark rocky cave.
Whose shelter is music when loud tempests rave.
Thou fair green valley, sad parting to thee,
Oh ! fill it, loud ocean, with wailing for me ;
And, svinds, the bare copses that moaningly greet.
Sad tone, ye wild singers, I ne'er shall forget.
“Farewell of the Emigrant” - Author Unknown, taken from Gaelic Bards, accessible here:
https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/7927/79279032.23.pdf
And to the sweet scene these dim clouds o'ercast ;
Farewell to its hills, and its dark rocky cave.
Whose shelter is music when loud tempests rave.
Thou fair green valley, sad parting to thee,
Oh ! fill it, loud ocean, with wailing for me ;
And, svinds, the bare copses that moaningly greet.
Sad tone, ye wild singers, I ne'er shall forget.
“Farewell of the Emigrant” - Author Unknown, taken from Gaelic Bards, accessible here:
https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/7927/79279032.23.pdf
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